purchacing dry exhaust
 

what companys make dry exhaust? what do they start out price wise

Pretty much any exhaust manufacturer (CMI, Stellings, IMCO, Dana, Eddie Marine, Stainless Marine, etc.) will make dry tails for you. Just the tails, or risers on a manifold setup, will start about $1000 and go up from there depending on complexity. That is just for the tails or risers. That does not include the price of the headers, or manifolds. You could spend as little as about $2500 for manifolds and dry risers in a simple setup to well over 10K for big tube headers and dry tails. What do you have (boat and engine), what are you after, and what is your budget???
Eddie

From a reliability standpoint as ease to deal with , I am a big fan of Stainless Marine. Depending on your engines you may give up some power with the Stainless stuff but it sure last long!
Steve

550hp motors with bw trans and trs drives..
really like the look of the lighting headers but would like a dry setup.. like the tube header style

You can have a new tubular style header setup without being dry to the tips. The tails will be jacketed, but you can still introduce the water into the exhaust. I'm sure you know, but a completely dry exhaust(meaning the exhaust and water never mix) is VERY loud.
Eddie

I was just going to add that point. How loud are they? Your dentist will be seeing you more often to replace fillings that were rattled out. A friend of mine had an old 10 meter (33') Fountain with dry pipes a number of years ago. You literally wanted to jump overboard after about 10 minutes. It's unbearable.

what would be the cheaper price on a tubular header dry system????

If those dry pipes are too much for someone I'll take'em off ya and put them in my boat..

What size and how much for the tails?

since water isnt going to exit the tails were will the exiting water leave with a dry exhaust?

Here is my Stainless Marine TRS dry exhaust, it is dry to the tips. Water exits out the 1" pipe.
http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e3.../tailpipes.jpg

http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e3...one/gasket.jpg

i also have a trs setup< nice

I'm looking to buy the Lightning reduced water's this winter. Anyone have any experience with these?

http://www.cpperformance.com/p-11813...r-headers.aspx

Anyone have any input on the reduced water headers? Thx

Why do you want dry exhaust? It is crazy loud. I run wet tails on my 1450 hp engines with no issues. CMI has dry exhaust if you really want it. Not advised for the noise issues though.
Call Ateco for a quote.

Eh, they're not that loud. My CMI's are dry to the tips.

Granted I'm not pushing 1450hp, but with a big cam 598ci, it still makes some noise.

I really don't want dry, but CPP said that I pretty much need it for the cam.

comp roller
lift .613 .608
@ .050 230 236
lobe separation 114.0

Your opinion?

i think that cam will work just fine for a wet tail setup.

I have something similar to reduced water pipes. I have the standard HP500 Gil manifolds with high rise pipes that are mostly dry. There is a dump about 2 feet from the tail that drains a bunch of water out a hose, and then another 1 inch dump at the end that clears what is left in the jackets. I believe there is then a little mixed into the exhaust....but not much. My 500 was LOUD. I just put in some slip-in mufflers to be a little more sociable on board actually.