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Your engine is about 403 HP from the factory... 2.5" Y-pipe is good for 463 HP... unless you are doing some serious upgrades you won't gain 60+ HP from intake, exhaust, and a tune.

Friend of mine has a 6.0 Express van, after intake, full exhaust with headers, cam and tune gained 70+ HP
 

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Friend of mine has a 6.0 Express van, after intake, full exhaust with headers, cam and tune gained 70+ HP

Correct... with a cam... unless he is going into the engine he will not see a 60+ HP increase with just intake, exhaust, and tune.

The OP said he was looking at the easy stuff first and started asking about tunes and intake and then asked about the Y-pipe.

I was merely pointing out that unless he installs a cam or goes FI the factory Y-pipe is more than sufficient... it is not a restriction as he describes on the F250... which I am not familiar with.

In all honesty, I'm not sure of the diameter of the Y-pipe on the 6.2L

The 5.3L Y-pipe is roughly 2.5" pipe... I say roughly because it flattens out under the transmission pan and appears, at least, to be a bigger diameter.

The 6.2L may in fact run a bigger diameter Y-pipe. It wouldn't surprise me considering they enlarged the tail pipe to 3.5" compared to the 5.3L 2.75"-3" tail pipe.

IF it does have a larger Y-pipe than the 5.3L then it would obviously accommodate more HP than the 2.5" Y-pipe on the 5.3L.
 
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Correct... with a cam... unless he is going into the engine he will not see a 60+ HP increase with just intake, exhaust, and tune.

The OP said he was looking at the easy stuff first and started asking about tunes and intake and then asked about the Y-pipe.

I was merely pointing out that unless he installs a cam or goes FI the factory Y-pipe is more than sufficient... it is not a restriction as he describes on the F250... which I am not familiar with.

In all honesty, I'm not sure of the diameter of the Y-pipe on the 6.2L

The 5.3L Y-pipe is roughly 2.5" pipe... I say roughly because it flattens out under the transmission pan and appears, at least, to be a bigger diameter.

The 6.2L may in fact run a bigger diameter Y-pipe. It wouldn't surprise me considering they enlarged the tail pipe to 3.5" compared to the 5.3L 2.75"-3" tail pipe.

IF it does have a larger Y-pipe than the 5.3L then it would obviously accommodate more HP than the 2.5" Y-pipe on the 5.3L.

misunderstood, sorry :cheers:
 

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