Horsepower Loss do to Wet Exghaust
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When you say heavily - how heavily?
I would bet as you pass the 600HP mark the headers begin to payoff.
UD
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A dry exhaust has still water flowing around the inner tube, where a wet exhaust does not need an inner tube and has the water mixed in to the tailpipe behind the riser !!!!!!
Both systems have water around the manifold/riser and even the headers do !!!!!
A dry exhaust only means that the exhaust fumes will not mix with water at all , but are still surounded by water !
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Like has been covered above, most likly you will see no real HP gain wet vs dry. Dry exhaust is needed to avioid reversion for really big cams. Most performance engines can use wet exhaust with long risers. If you used short risers with a performance cam reversion is likly to happen. Every engine is different and somone that runs a dyno may be more helpfull.
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One reason this thread is close to me is that I have to dyno a new build this thursday- dry
- because the crew doesnt want wet headers in the dyno room.
Im kind of living with this in real time at the moment.
Uncle Dave
- because the crew doesnt want wet headers in the dyno room.
Im kind of living with this in real time at the moment.
Uncle Dave
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Fact is better than speculation everyday!
You guys would be surprised what wet headers versus dry headers produce for horsepower difference on a calibrated SAE dyno test. You confirm this with Bob at Full Throttle in his testing also, but we have seen about a 20-25 HP loss on a 500-600HP 496 on the dyno when a wet marine header is run with full wet tips.
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Ray @ Raylar
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Ray @ Raylar
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You guys would be surprised what wet headers versus dry headers produce for horsepower difference on a calibrated SAE dyno test. You confirm this with Bob at Full Throttle in his testing also, but we have seen about a 20-25 HP loss on a 500-600HP 496 on the dyno when a wet marine header is run with full wet tips.
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Ray @ Raylar
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Ray @ Raylar
Do you know if the torque numbers suffered the same amount as well?
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Low end torque will not suffer as much from wet exhaust. As the rpm increases, so does the amount of water and the restriction it creates. Therefore the loss will become greater as airflow increases, whether it's from increased RPM or power increases. Another impact is on the A/F ratio. Tuning without water, especially if they use dyno headers can be significantly different.
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The design goal was max NA hp on 87 octane.
Last edited by Rage; 06-11-2010 at 08:19 AM.