MetroNYC New Power Numbers!!!

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JimIII@JDM

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Gabriel brought his Raptor in for some new tuning and to help fix some exhaust leaks on his ARH system. He had been chasing the exhaust leaks for some time and had another shop attempt the job but no luck. We pulled the headers down and discovered the weld that held the tubes to the flanges had given up and cracked. This created a leak at nearly every cylinder where the header attached to the cylinder head. So we welded all the way around each tube at the flange, where ARH just tack welded them from the factory. This solved the issues and we were able to face the headers and re-install them with out issue! They sealed up nice and tight with no leaks. After this issue was resolved we put the truck on the dyno. Gabriel's truck last time here made just over 500 RWHP. Since then he added a Ford Racing throttle body and we updated his tune file from some stuff we had learned over the past year. We ended up making 556 RWHP and 546 TQ!! This is with our standard 650 HP kit, Cobra Jet Throttle body, and Full exhaust. The cool weather played a little part in the power numbers as we usually see 530-540 for these some modifications.

Here are some pics of what we did with the header tubes and his new dyno graph!

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Very nice numbers.

Do the Kooks headers have the same potential issue or do they come welded all the way around?
 
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Very nice numbers.

Do the Kooks headers have the same potential issue or do they come welded all the way around?

I've never had this issue and we've sold hundreds of sets of Kooks headers...It's the only header system we sell!
 

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Well it's about time, glad to see Gabriel finally get those numbers up.
I will point out that Gabriel also reinstalled the stock cats back in and this is not to first time that I've heard Whipple guys doing that.
Also No cats are trending now but if you need to pass smog testing then that's not going to work for you.
The stock cats are just better quality then those Hi-Flow cats that were being sold.
 
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