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Old 09-20-2005, 03:03 AM   #25 (permalink)
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Default Re: Measuring stock exhaust restriction

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Originally Posted by mjannusch
It'll work better at speed if the tip points straight back. With it angled out like that it is pushing exhaust out right into the main airflow around the car. Neither good for exhaust efficiency, nor overall aerodynamics.
What about Bernouli's principle? Shouldn't the air rushing past the tip more perpendicularly (that's a word, right?) help pull it out? I always thought that was the idea behind these angled exhausts everyone has.
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