09-20-2005, 10:30 AM
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vehicular thaumaturgist
Join Date: Apr 2000
Location: Woburn, MA
Drives: 1994 Stealth TT
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Re: Measuring stock exhaust restriction
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Originally Posted by FWombat
I'm not paying homage to any damn Supra; I'm just trying to make the straightest exhaust I can without cutting the bumper.  |
Right, which is exactly what they were doing (but probably 10 years ago).
Some of it *might* come from the need to do that with large piping, but I bet most of the reason they do it is becasue fewer bends = less flow losses.
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