170 tips for a budget!

So Charlie you run the stock exhaust size on your 170? 1 7/8 or 2 inch? I agree with you im not a 170 guy, i just remember reading the 170 has the pistons higher to the deck so i would be carefull milling the head so much as .100 but you always got to measure everything then measure again to be safe im not a 170 guy. its already hard hot rodding a six banger and expensive and even harder when starting with the smaller platform displacement 170

What I got from his exhaust response was that bigger exhaust will not help a STOCK engine. He's right. One with a two barrel, more compression, more cam then yes, it will help. Also as Charlie said, "if it needs exhaust anyway".