Starting a 350 w/ no exhaust

As I have posted before I am getting my car ready to start for the first itme in a couple of years. However I just thought about something. Will it damage the engine if I start the car with no exhaust. I have Sanderson headers mounted but have not yet installed the exhaust. The sanderson block huggers dump on each side of the block.​

 

Only thing it is going to hurt is your ears and your relationship with your neighbors.

Have a good time.

 

By all means do it! How can you let a chance like that go by to make some real noise?

Bob

 

I thought all engines were supposed to be started with open headers the first time. As long as it is not cold out and there is no chance of cold air getting to your valves you should be fine.

 

As long as you have headers, no problem as ****** and others said.

 

hell ya then drive it up the street full throttle, thats what i do!

 

I never start an engine without some sort of jerry rigged mufflers of some sort. Reason is that if there are any unusual noises they can be herd and dealt with rite away instead of running to long and not knowing. JMO

 

I drove mine across town to get exhaust built with just the block huggers.

It wasnt that loud actually.

 

I agree.

 

My pal runs his up and down the street like that all day. It's beautiful.
I would, too, but my wife won't let me do that to the neighborhood.

 

Hell, there was a guy at "Back to the 50's" that was basically driving around with no exhaust. He thought he was really cool, everybody else thought he was an idiot!

In your own garage, well that's cool...

 

Fire it up!

 

You mean like the -40F cold air that made it to the back side of the valves, down the 4" exhaust on a P51-B at 30,000 feet?

This is a myth, and we need to let it die.

 

Kill it before it grows


It wont hurt a thing..except for your ears maybe..done it in summer..done it in winter..dont hurt a thing

I like seeing the flames

 

Yes!


Thanks Everyone.

 

It's dumb not to have mufflers for the initial fireup so you can hear it.

 

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Jerry rigging on that one is going to be difficult block huggers point straight down as I recall. But to jerry rig some exhaust you can get a couple of 90s bent weld them to the adapters for the headers and stick some gl*** packs on them.

I like to run 2 1/2' pipes and gl*** packs on my stuff; normally they end up dumping right in front of my rear tires. But if I'm rich I run the mufflers back near the rear then tail pipes under the rear bumper or pan. But that large a pipe doesn't sound as good on a lower compression motor.

On a lower compression motor I like to run a 2" to a 21/8" pipe with gl*** packs. But, on my Willys pickup with the '68 small block (mostly stock low compression motor) I'm running 2 1/8" pipes with these little short turbo mufflers, it sounds as good as any gl*** pack setup I've ever run. The exhaust was done when I got it and it really surprised me.