FT exhaust manifolds

[sideoilerfe]

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The top is a truck manifold and the bottom is a car. In the truck manifold the last cylinder actually has to fight the other three to get it's exhaust out, moving foward first then out. On the car manifold it only has to turn. Not great, but much better than the truck. See:

In the bottom manifold you can actually see out, where on the top one you just see metal blocking the path.
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Have you thought of firing order? To say that Cylinder #4 has to fight the other three is inaccurate. They fire 15426378 so by the time #4 fires, #1 has already passed into the pipe. We can argue all night but you will notice no difference between the car and truck manifold, period. Spend the money and go through the trouble if you want the choice is yours. Have you seen a car manifold on a truck? It looks pretty ghetto.

[fomocoguy]

You're right, I did not think about firing order. I am sure the manifold is completely empty of any exhaust gas from any of the other three cylinders by the time #4 fires.... What I don't really understand is why you feel the need to argue about it and tell me that I'm wasting my time and money when I freely admit that I probably won't feel any difference and my only goal here is to have the best flowing manifold that I can possibly have on the passenger side of my engine, especially when I currently have headers and will be paying to have the pipe reconnected to the manifolds anyways. Factoring in that I also have both types of manifolds in my posession it equates to ZERO extra cost and ZERO extra trouble for me. If you have concrete evidence that the car manifold flows no better than the truck manifold please enlighten me, but it looks to me that it flows better and I can see no logical reason that it wouldn't. Considering that the exhaust will be custom bent to match up to it I really don't see what would cause it to look "ghetto".

I get the point. You think that nothing beats the stock manifolds. I don't agree. That's why I started this thread and I'm exploring every possible affordable option for a durable decent flowing exhaust manifold.

[sideoilerfe]

I get the point. You think that nothing beats the stock manifolds. I don't agree.

I never said that. What I said was you won't notice a difference either way. You do what you want I am just saying it's not worth the hassle. I know you have both manifolds in your possession now so there is no extra cost. Go ahead and put a car manifold on your truck. There's a reason why they changed the manifolds for the trucks.

What I don't really understand is why you feel the need to argue about it and tell me that I'm wasting my time and money when I freely admit that I probably won't feel any difference

My point is you admit that you won't notice a difference yet you continue to consider the car manifold. You asked for advice and opinions here and i'm just giving you mine. I'm not here to start an argument and if you feel that I am than I apologize.