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Originally Posted by Shawn D.
Hmm... I wonder how it is Y'all haven't bothered to address how all of this will actually come together in a real-world street-applicable car. I guess I'll just have to wait to see this real-world street-applicable straight exhaust that Y'all seem to think is possible.  |
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Originally Posted by Christ
We actually did... that was the beginning of the thread, Shawn. It was the preface to this whole discussion.
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Originally Posted by theunchosen
Actually Christ and Frank Lee already discussed it.
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Really? I can't find that wheat amongst the chaff. Would Y'all be so kind as to point out the exact posts?
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Originally Posted by Christ
You are vehemently opposed to the idea of a straight exhaust, aren't you?
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No, I'm not opposed to the "idea" of a straight exhaust.
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Originally Posted by Christ
How hard would it really be to have a straight exhaust pipe?
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So hard it won't get done on a street car that requires a catalytic converter and/or muffler.
The absolute "closest" one could come to implementing this concept would require one pipe per cylinder, with one catalytic converter and one muffler per pipe. Once the flow enters the catalytic converter (even a monolithic one, which all of 'em are now), there goes the "straight" flow concept which seems to be the point of this thread. The "straightest" muffler is a glass-pack, which most any hot rodder knows flows
worse than a turbo- or chambered-style muffler -- what would be the point of having a "straight" muffler which flows worse? Adherence to the idea for adherence's sake? Straight ain't gonna happen except in Ecomodder Fantasy Land.