Q: Full exhaust system is not hooked up.

asked by on March 14, 2017

On my truck I don't have a full exhaust system hooked up and I was wondering if that could be a power loss issue I've already done a full time up too.

My car has 200000 miles.
My car has an automatic transmission.

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