B&B exhaust tabs..help

[atdeneve]

Originally Posted by Bueller

As for 6th when going slow, I think your mileage would be worse too. Try the same bicycle test when going very slow. Go a mile at 1 mph in low gear, then go the same mile in top gear when it is very hard to turn to start off, and continue at low speed. Keep going slow and your legs will kill after that mile in top gear, and you barely have to put any effort into getting it to crank over in low gear, although it goes around many more times. Lugging the motor is not efficient.

C'mon, do you really think I'm talkin about situations where you would have to lug the motor? Dude was talkin about 6th gear at only 55 mph or above. Hardly lugging.

Originally Posted by Crawler

I wouldn't worry about the drone at 50 in 6th. I'd worry about the fuel mileage.

I don't know about your V but mine better be at 55 or better to use 6th. Otherwise my mileage tanks.

~WS~

[Carnalsupply]

I've got B&B on my car as well and it did not have any brackets just aft of the X-pipe, so I had some installed, and wouldn't you know it they broke! I just had new rubber bushings and brackets installed, as well as pulled the driver side pipe away from the floor and the system is noticeably quieter.
Yes, there is a definite drone but I'm either dumb or deaf (or both) because it doesn't bother me in the least.

[GMBOUND]

I have a 2.5 mile drive behind folks who refuse to go a mile over 40mph, so I put that baby in 6th gear and ride it out. Depending on which way I'm going it's a free roll anyways due to the many hills.
With no one in front of me, I can do a quick launch to 60 then coast all the way home!

[Crawler]

I agree with most of the above. Also I understand all of the physics behind it.

However in my car 48-54MPH in 6th just doesnt work well.

Maybe its just a bad RPM for the motor. I don't know.

45mph you can cruise 6th just fine. (I don't because that RPM is so low it makes me uncomfortable.)
55MPH I can cruise 6th
In between= no bueno

~WS~

[GMBOUND]

UR in DFW, you can't cruise anyways for all the damn Stop & Go traffic.