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mark.yellow.series.3:
iam nearly ready for making an exhaust for the swb V8,
some people tell me i will need to join both exhaust headers together( in a 'y' piece) to balance the engine, but i have seen american cars where there is an exhaust comes out of each side of the car ( thats what i want to do).
and ive also seen on telly a V8 with 8 seperate pipes coming off the engine.

can any one shed any light on the matter.

dew1911:
The Usual method for a V8 (and Audi 1.8T) is to have to seperate outlets, and I presume it'll work with Land Rovers, if anything they'd be more balanced.

I think it would work either way, but I know I'd agree with you and go for a pair of them.

Range Rover Blues:
Er, no.  some V8s have a different firing order that allows separate headers, but the rover does not, you need to join the 2 sides.  Even systems that do have handed exhaust will often have a balancer pipe between the 2 sides, or they run into 1 and separate further back, this is what you need to do otherwise it will chug badly and the different cylinders will run, well, differently.

datalas:
the rover V8 requires the Y pipe system for cross compression, it was designed to have one and will run like a bag of spanners without...

of course you could fit two I suppose :?

mark.yellow.series.3:
cheers guys i thought it would need a y pipe. might just have one side exit exhaust.

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