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Old 08-24-2005, 05:46 PM
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Test pipes improves my MPG!!!!

I just put o a set of VRS test pipes on my G. I picked up about 10% on my highway MPG!!!!!
 
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Old 08-25-2005, 12:56 PM
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i thought it was the other way around. thats at least what i noticed.

after my header/test pipe install my mpg dropped to 16mpg, and hasn't budged.
 
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Old 08-25-2005, 07:44 PM
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YoFool. Good for you.
 
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Old 08-27-2005, 04:46 PM
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Fit and finish are great. No CEL also!!! They installed the O2 sensor spacers.

Very little rasp that is only evident at WOT. Idle and crusie are only slightly louder than stock.

The extra MPG must be from the lower exhaust restriction!!!
 
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Old 08-27-2005, 06:12 PM
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Quick question:

How do you guys pass inspection with test pipes?
 
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Old 08-28-2005, 12:26 PM
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Originally Posted by jnkirk1974
Quick question:

How do you guys pass inspection with test pipes?
You don't.

Either you live in an area that doesn't test, or you run around for years and years, hiding from the law, polluting the atmosphere like nobodies business, for a few HP and a little more noise because you're too poseur and cheap to go ahead and get what you should have gotten in the first place - hi-flow cats - which would have given you the gains without all the crap spewing into the atmosphere.
 
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Old 08-28-2005, 01:19 PM
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Originally Posted by trebien
You don't.

Either you live in an area that doesn't test, or you run around for years and years, hiding from the law, polluting the atmosphere like nobodies business, for a few HP and a little more noise because you're too poseur and cheap to go ahead and get what you should have gotten in the first place - hi-flow cats - which would have given you the gains without all the crap spewing into the atmosphere.
 

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Old 08-28-2005, 01:28 PM
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Ha Ha.....tree hugger.....

We don't really NEED the ozone layer anyways.......

I tried them....but the gas smell was too much for me.

I took them off and installed Hi Flow Cats.
 
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Old 08-30-2005, 09:14 AM
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nice tree hugger pic!!!

We don't have emissions testing or vehicle inspections in Florida. A few counties (Dade, Broward, Palm Beach, etc) used to have it, but our air quality is not an issue any longer. Air quality only became an issue due to a number of brush fires that occured several years ago. When THEY retested, Florida air was good stuff!!

The last time I recall Florida vehicle inspection was back in the 70s.
 
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Old 08-30-2005, 11:36 PM
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I'm a pretty conservative guy, but science is science and the truth of the matter is that global warming is affecting all kinds of things (such as weather patterns)... why purposefully make it worse when you can have the same performance from hi-flow cats?

Why destroy something on purpose, when there is an equally well-performing alternative?

The difference between using cats and not using cats is like 3000% more emissions.

I bet the people in New Orleans would appreciate it.
 
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Originally Posted by trebien
I'm a pretty conservative guy, but science is science and the truth of the matter is that global warming is affecting all kinds of things (such as weather patterns)... why purposefully make it worse when you can have the same performance from hi-flow cats?

Why destroy something on purpose, when there is an equally well-performing alternative?

The difference between using cats and not using cats is like 3000% more emissions.

I bet the people in New Orleans would appreciate it.
Ummm, Cats convert CO to CO2, which just happens to be the main green house gas, so that specific arguement is pointless. Cats clean up other gases, but everyone is using global warming as an excuse.....
 
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