PassivAggressor
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- May 24, 2014
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- Ram Year
- 2014
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- Hemi 5.7
I recently installed some JBA LT's with the Y pipe. Having previously installed headers on a new 5.0 Mustang this install wasn't too bad. Worst part's were extracting one broken stock manifold bolt (reason I got the headers), removing stock Y(just finally cut the damn thing off), and putting the new header in position on the drivers side. After that the bolts were all pretty easy to get to and was fairly straight forward. Couple of issues before the positives:
1. I have a decent leak where the Y comes together. I don't like the U clamps that come with the Y and think this could be contributing to the leak. I will go to NAPA tomorrow to see if they have the smaller and better band clamps and I think that may solve my issue.
2. The headers came with longer O2 extensions and they are definitely long enough to reach the rear O2 sensors. The issue I had was the front passenger O2 sensor. For the life of me I could not get it long enough to reach the location. I was pulling on it thinking there may have been some more slack and the wires came out of the plug. Yay. Thankfully this is not the first time this has happened (ABS wires) and I can just put them back in. I guess I'll have to find some extensions for the front O2.
Positives.
Ma gawd the top end pull. I was cruising down the road at 50 and punched it and it was crazy how much faster it was. I was not expecting that. Throttle response is MUCH better. I had to relearn accelerating from a stop because the truck is much more responsive and eager to GO. The truck sounds pretty damn mean while still being decently quiet with no cats, an 18" Maggy, and resonators. I admit, it doesn't sound fantastic while in the truck, but I had my friend drive it while I watched and it sounded damn good. I think the exhaust leak contributes to it and I know headers and no cats allow a lot more engine noise.
So long story short I am very happy with them and would recommend them to anyone looking to go faster. I'd like to give a shout out to Matt at Moe's Performance for shipping these suckers out in a day and for answering all my questions. The guy is the damn man when it comes to helping us out with our trucks and sometimes even bigger issues.
1. I have a decent leak where the Y comes together. I don't like the U clamps that come with the Y and think this could be contributing to the leak. I will go to NAPA tomorrow to see if they have the smaller and better band clamps and I think that may solve my issue.
2. The headers came with longer O2 extensions and they are definitely long enough to reach the rear O2 sensors. The issue I had was the front passenger O2 sensor. For the life of me I could not get it long enough to reach the location. I was pulling on it thinking there may have been some more slack and the wires came out of the plug. Yay. Thankfully this is not the first time this has happened (ABS wires) and I can just put them back in. I guess I'll have to find some extensions for the front O2.
Positives.
Ma gawd the top end pull. I was cruising down the road at 50 and punched it and it was crazy how much faster it was. I was not expecting that. Throttle response is MUCH better. I had to relearn accelerating from a stop because the truck is much more responsive and eager to GO. The truck sounds pretty damn mean while still being decently quiet with no cats, an 18" Maggy, and resonators. I admit, it doesn't sound fantastic while in the truck, but I had my friend drive it while I watched and it sounded damn good. I think the exhaust leak contributes to it and I know headers and no cats allow a lot more engine noise.
So long story short I am very happy with them and would recommend them to anyone looking to go faster. I'd like to give a shout out to Matt at Moe's Performance for shipping these suckers out in a day and for answering all my questions. The guy is the damn man when it comes to helping us out with our trucks and sometimes even bigger issues.
