Trouble getting hemi running right

loganscuda said

I had an exhaust leak and it would backfire. I’m wandering if it needs the mufflers for some kinda backpressure.

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I don't know much about your particular app, but for a regular old engine, if you have backfiring, it could be exhaust leak, complicated by insufficient combustion, which could be from a rich condition or a vacuum leak