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Old Nov 21, 2007 | 11:33 AM
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I was just curious if there was any power gain difference between the single and the split exhaust or is it mainly just a looks preference??
 
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Old Nov 21, 2007 | 11:40 AM
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No difference. Duals on an inline engine is dumb anyway. Well, except for stacks.[sm=badbadbad.gif]
 
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Old Nov 21, 2007 | 12:20 PM
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Generally speaking, your exhaust is only as good as its most restrictive component as far as performance is concerned. Installing dual mufflers/tailpipes won't matter if you have a single 3" pipe sitting upstream. As mentioned above, with an inline engine you only have one exhaust stream, going to duals downstreamwill only help in the looks/sound department.
 
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Old Nov 21, 2007 | 12:44 PM
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Generally speaking, your exhaust is only as good as its most restrictive component as far as performance is concerned. Installing dual mufflers/tailpipes won't matter if you have a single 3" pipe sitting upstream. As mentioned above, with an inline engine you only have one exhaust stream, going to duals downstreamwill only help in the looks/sound department.
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Old Nov 21, 2007 | 02:44 PM
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also going too big will effect performance seeing as it is more surface area the exhaust gasses have to travel, thus looseing velocity. so your low end suffers.
 
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Old Nov 21, 2007 | 02:52 PM
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Duals on an inline engine is dumb anyway. Well, except for stacks.[sm=badbadbad.gif]
 
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Old Nov 21, 2007 | 04:49 PM
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but man black smoke out of both sides of you truck would look sweet not to mention if some one is pissing you off and there on the drivers side of you
 
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Old Nov 21, 2007 | 08:40 PM
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good point memphisii
 
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Old Nov 21, 2007 | 08:53 PM
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I kinda like the way mine looks , sounds and smoke X2 is way cool.

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Old Nov 22, 2007 | 12:23 PM
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thanks for the info. I was gunna get stacks but due to mucho soot on the front of my racecar trailer i decided against it. And I'm getting full turbo back exhaust I'm not stayin with the stock piping into the muffler. And I know with the inline it only comes out one side of the motor so its not true duals its just split at the muffler. I was just curious if there was a performance edge one way or the other or if its mainly looks oriented so thanks for the info again
 
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