will....exhaust...

m.cakes · 01-02-2003, 11:44 PM

will an exhuast leak cause you to loose hp....cuz the gasket blew in my new headers and its leaking....and my car feels like its a little slower....is it my head or will i loose a significant amount of hp....if this helps this is what i have done to my car...hotshot headers, throttle body, intake, nology plug wires, flow master exhuast....so from and exhuast leak would i feel it or not...thanks

jake

picksl1 · 01-03-2003, 12:02 AM

yes u would feel a decrease in power....i used to have an 83 bronco II and i was pulling a hill and then my car got real loud and didnt feel as powerful so once i got to the top i pulled over and looked underneath it and saw that the exhaust blew apart either right after the cat or right before i cant remember it was like 2 yrs a go this happened

CelticShadow · 01-03-2003, 12:04 AM

Agreed......I had to cut the muffler off my 85 Bronco II and well the whole exhaust needed to be replaced because of leaks throughout the whole thing, causing quite a noticable lack of power.

Estairiker · 01-03-2003, 05:41 AM

On my old 91 SC2, I had the flex hose all torn up, and I had a major back-pressure problem cause of it.

workingonSC1 · 01-03-2003, 01:41 PM

Yep, you will notice it. I had a problem with the header gaskets on my camaro blowing alot and I could always feel when one went, could hear it to.

m.cakes · 01-03-2003, 04:25 PM

yeah i definately can hear it....that annoying ticking sound....what is back pressure...thanks for all the input...

jake

SC2_GT · 01-03-2003, 04:31 PM

You will lose torque but gain HP the power that you feel that you lost is the torque.

workingonSC1 · 01-03-2003, 04:40 PM

How would you gain HP from a blown header gasket?