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Old 03-07-2003, 06:35 PM
psfred psfred is offline
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I doubt adding a larger diameter pipe will do much of anything, MB diesels don't suffer from low horsepower output or excessive back pressure. All you would get is more noise, not something I personally desire.

A NA diesel moves the max volume of air at about 1500 rpm. For a turbo, airflow is only limited by compressor speed and intake crossectional area, the intake manifold can pretty much be ignored (and MB makes very high flow efficient manifolds anyway).

Peter
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