Jay,
You can remove the rods without cutting them. Clean the rods with carb cleaner to remove any buildup, then slide them right out of the hole. You can use some small bolts with silicone on them to seal off the holes temporarily.
My 3 liter has enough low down torque off of idle without the secondaries to light up the tires to where I have to feather it (235/40/17's in case you were wondering). SVTJOE1's dyno was impressive as well. It takes a lot mof mods and some amount of tuning to make the gutted secondaries work well. Who cares if I might get 20-30 more below 2,000 RPM... I never drive the dang car down there anyway and the tires can't put it to the ground even if I did.
Your experience with pinned secondaries
SHOULD be negative. Pinning them is just a way to see if the low end losses are worth it on your car with your mods and driving style.
Not enough velocity eh? Add on a 70mm TB and what do you get? An SE that walks modded SVTs is what I got. :p Judging by my dyno graphs, my torque is fairly flat from 3K up to just before redline, HP could use a little more air above 6K. My SE UIM is holding me waaaaaaaaay back here, as are my cams, heads, etc. Time for stage two...
FYI PA, short = high RPM HP, long = low end TQ.
You other 3 liter guys, look at it this way... the '01 and newer 3 liters don't have pri/sec... just a large oval port. Wonder why???
