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Originally Posted by Shawn D.
No, I did not contradict myself. As you quoted me, I said "taking a few bends out of the exhaust," not taking all bends out of the exhaust. He would not be able to make a perfectly straight exhaust; changing the angle of the engine would only take out one 90° bend per cylinder, leaving the rest of the curvy exhaust. If bends were such a killer, racers wouldn't go to extreme effort to fabricate "bag of snakes" headers to make equal-length primaries and instead would go for the straightest design -- that is not how it is done. Racers do, however, rely on mandrel-bent tubing. Get it, now?
I wouldn't be so quick to shoot down my shooting it down, is all I'm saying about your saying. 
Bringing up valid arguments against something isn't being "so quick to shoot it down" anyhow. |
To tell you the truth in exhaust design, a straight exhaust is not what would be the most effecinet design anyway. A system with the least "restrictive" number of bends would be the most effecient. Take a look at the design of an exhaust on a Fourmula one car. They have many bends, but all are very gentle and swooping, and end in a system in which every one of the exhaust header pipes are exactly the same length to the collector. That will generate not only the greatest ammount of horsepower, but the greatest effeciency as well.
Peace out and live green!
TWH