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Originally Posted by WhiteCrane
Now forgive me, as I drive a Mustang, not a Camaro. But the facts here should be about the same...
Adding performance exhaust to your car, where does the hp increase come from?
Does it come from the X pipes?
Does the axle back muffler (flowmaster for example) add any horsepower?
Wouldn't a car like mine (or your camaro) already have X or H pipes underneath? Or does it just pipe it out from the header in a straight line? I don't understand why Ford would equip my car stock with restrictive exhaust pipes.
Does a cat-back exhaust mean pipes and muffler? Or am i missing something.
Am considering dropping the cash this summer to buy this:
And whatever exhaust combination gives me some more horsepower, but I am CLUELESS!. I dont even care how it sounds, as long as it doesn't turn m car into a rice rocket.
Will take any advice. If there's a tutorial for me to read, just send me that way. |
Think of an engine as a great big pump. It takes power to suck air in, and also to push exhaust out. Certain types of exhaust setups (X pipe and H pipes) can make it more efficient for the engine to pump out the exhaust. They allows the exhaust pulses to work with each other to keep the gases flowing.
Manufacturers will usually go with the cheapest decent solution for any particular problem. In the case of exhausts, if there are 2 designs and one has 5% better flow than the other, but costs 10% more chances are low that they'll go with the better flowing design.