This dude says NO to headers

Pretty good info about headers. What do y'all think? I added some headers to my 2000 but I have no plans to add them to my 05.



https://youtu.be/YbFnRcbCRK8

 

I love this guy's videos!

 

Yeah I do too! He explains things simply, briefly and he's kinda funny too!!!

 

That's a whole lot of words for an already solved problem. To counter his argument though, long tubes on LS motors, and even our motors, have been known to make 30-50hp and 20-40lb ft of torque. With HPTuners, EFI Live, and other laptop based software to tune an engine, tuning ECMs is now the "carburetor tuning" of his time. Couple long tubes with a decent air intake and some injectors, you can pull 25-35% more power out an engine and probably even better fuel economy.

Times are a changing boys and girls...

 

ha never seen him before. dudes gotta be roling in youtube dough based on his views. he's got multiple videos over 1M views

 

As it pertains to just the Tundra community...do you think anyone with either ST or LT headers reprograms their ECM? I'd say most don't. With that being said without an ECM reprogram will you truly see any gains? Again I'd say no, in fact, you'll probably see a degradation of hp.

I'm not adding headers either way I'm just wondering just to be "wondering"...you know?!

 

Yeah I just stumbled into his videos about 3 or 4 months ago. I found them to be informative and simple, for a non-mechanical person such as myself.

As for his money from his views...I say Kudos to him!!! I wish I knew something that 1M people would watch to make some extra cash cause I sure need it!!!!!

 

Respectfully disagree with them being useless on modern vehicles.

Short tubes are on my list!

 

Headers are the best way to gain a good number of hp/torque that tuners won’t give you, cheaper than buying a supercharger. His videos are ok, old guy technician I don’t know how current his knowledge is but he has a lot of viewers so must be legit ‍

 

Please tell me how you can gain 25-35% power with a modern normally aspirated engine?
A modern engine runs at 85-90% volumetric efficiency, a full bore race engine can squeeze 105% in a very narrow RPM range with ram air effect intake and exhaust tuning. How do you make a street engine get 110-120% volumetric efficiency (per your 25-35% comment) over the broad RPM that a street engine needs to operate?
That is like running a turbo or supercharger on the engine at 3-4 psi ?

 

Al is just about done fine tuning this Internet that he created and will be on to that project shortly.

 

Pop pop pop

 

pfft. where's your sense of adventure? bag it. stance it. largest loudest muffler you can find. drop your pants around your knees. sweatshirt 3 sizes too big. hat on sideways. you'll be ready to rock. i can totally see it.

 

oh oh. huge photo shoot too. we'll get you on speedhunters!

 

@ColoradoTJ not sure what you are trying to say with the link?

**Highly Modified = aggressive cam, performance intake manifold, headers, ignition upgrade, aftermarket configuration racing cylinder heads, 14:1 or higher compression ratio

That is a race engine, no way can those specs idle under 1500rpm, nor does it show that "headers, cai, and ecu tuning " can give you 25-35% more power.

 

At 3:15 he says people will put on a turbo before doing a header.... I don’t believe anything else he says now.

 

I have a header on my Mr2...

 

I think the ve is a very irrelevant way of looking at headers.... same with Dino numbers tbh

 

Never go full retard.

 

Supra?

 

He said fast and powerful, stock Supra is neither unfortunately...