On Mon, 6 Mar 1995, Todd Mullins wrote:
> Here's your chance to educate me: What's the benefit of twin-tip
> exhausts? It seems to me that if the cross-sectional area were
> adequate, the exhaust gasses wouldn't care how many tips the system
> had. Is this a case of slick marketing?
The benefit of twin tip exhausts is that they're twice as cool. Coolness
goes up not linearly, but exponentially with increase in x-sectional area.
> And if it doesn't fit well, which obviously is the case, then why bother?
I'm not sure this is something that can be explained.
Greg
Greg Meboe meboe@wsunix.wsu.edu
Dept. of Mechanical and Materials Engineering
Washington State University, Pullman, Wa.
'85 XJ-12 H.E. (daily) '67 Spit-6 '74 TR-6
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