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Old Aug 15, 2004
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Performance exhaust tuning tip.

If you REALLY REALLY want power I have a tip. Note this may be illegal. Take a can of cheap spray paint and paint your exhaust system white from the cat back. Drive around for a day or two then look at the system. Most of the system will be black (the paint burned off). Where the paint stops turning black is where the exhaust is mostly cooled and is just "along for the ride". Now get your hacksaw and cut your system off just after that point. Bolt on a high-flow muffler (if you removed all your mufflers). Then target that exhaust right out the side using a 90º or a 45º bend and some straight pipe. This is what I did. It cost me all of $40, made my car sound nice, and made my exhaust flow like the Mississippi.

Saw this on another site.
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Then target that exhaust right out the side using a 90º or a 45º bend and some straight pipe.
So your telling me that adding bends and curves into your exhaust system will help it flow better??? I don't think so, you want your exhaust to be as straight as possible, every bend, curve or decrease in piping diameter is going to slow down exhaust flow.
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If a 12 inch bent exit pipe is used in place of a 2 foot straight pipe, where the gasses have cooled appears to make sense.
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hmm, Ive never heard of this before.
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that is different.

why not just wrap the exahust piping in header wrap.
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why not just get a catback from the start so you wouldnt have to hack away at your exhaust system. Makes more sense.

And why the hell would you want your exhaust coming out the side for anyway? Isnt like you are autocrossing and trying to make room for sway bars or anything. And your car isnt running 900HP. I think you are just making your car into a little ricer civic.
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The best and most powerful muffler is NO MUFFLER ! Try it to believe.
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I think you are just making your car into a little ricer civic.
That's old news.They need to hire red at the "Pimp/rice my ride" place.WCC I think.
 
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