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Old 10-14-2007, 08:47 AM
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Originally Posted by benebob View Post
Then why would the most powerfully tuned per liter engines (motorcycles) have disproportiontely long mostly unequal headers.
Because they are air cooled. The length of the header has a thermal effect on the cylinder. the rear being the warmer needs to have a different length to cool as it has a lack of air flow unlike the front cylinder.

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