TEST PIPE questions
12-05-2006, 01:46 PM
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Originally Posted by a_zepeda926,Dec 5 2006, 01:26 AM
state the downsides please?
If this is a race car that gets driven a couple thousand miles a year at the most, or a show car dyno queen that gets trailered everywhere, then fine. But if you put 10-20K street miles on your car, why make the rest of us breathe your foul emissions?
12-05-2006, 01:54 PM
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well i keep hearing no hspw increases an then some people are claiming 3-8 hspw increase which one is it? I will be running it WITH stock exhuast. I do not want a dual loud exhuast on this sexy car its pointless IMO if your boosted or Fast sure a nice single is alrite but otherwise no thanx.
12-05-2006, 01:55 PM
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Originally Posted by dthondatune,Dec 5 2006, 12:10 PM
Is the yellowing caused by the heat build-up or from the exhaust fumes?
12-05-2006, 02:01 PM
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Originally Posted by Mister Jew,Dec 5 2006, 02:54 PM
well i keep hearing no hspw increases an then some people are claiming 3-8 hspw increase which one is it?
12-05-2006, 02:24 PM
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IMO, the main one is that anybody running a test pipe on the street is being a selfish jerk, polluting everybody else's air for the tiniest amount of extra power that you don't need and never use on the street in the first place.
If this is a race car that gets driven a couple thousand miles a year at the most, or a show car dyno queen that gets trailered everywhere, then fine. But if you put 10-20K street miles on your car, why make the rest of us breathe your foul emissions?
If this is a race car that gets driven a couple thousand miles a year at the most, or a show car dyno queen that gets trailered everywhere, then fine. But if you put 10-20K street miles on your car, why make the rest of us breathe your foul emissions?
Wait, I'm not gonna go there.
To each his/her own.
12-05-2006, 02:37 PM
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Originally Posted by TheCarGuy2021,Dec 5 2006, 03:24 PM
I'm much more likely to get cancer or some other health problem from second-hand smoke than a car's emissions.
People don't die because they are in a closed garage with a smoker.
The cat doesn't solve everything -- the car still puts out CO2, CO, HAPs, HCs, NOx, SOx, etc. But it does cut down on a lot of the most toxic stuff.
Don't toss out this BS unless you have data to back it up.
ps. I'm an emissions control engineer, so I do have some idea of what I'm talking about. Do you?
12-05-2006, 02:44 PM
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Originally Posted by AJ PwR,Dec 5 2006, 12:36 PM
It will be impossible to pass emissions with a test pipe.
12-05-2006, 08:45 PM
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Originally Posted by mikegarrison,Dec 5 2006, 05:37 PM
Probably not. Cars without cats put out worse compounds, and more importantly they put out a lot more of them. Imagine if you tried to breathe in a car's exhaust the way a smoker inhales a cigarette. You wouldn't last 10 minutes, much less 20 years.
People don't die because they are in a closed garage with a smoker.
The cat doesn't solve everything -- the car still puts out CO2, CO, HAPs, HCs, NOx, SOx, etc. But it does cut down on a lot of the most toxic stuff.
Don't toss out this BS unless you have data to back it up.
ps. I'm an emissions control engineer, so I do have some idea of what I'm talking about. Do you?
People don't die because they are in a closed garage with a smoker.
The cat doesn't solve everything -- the car still puts out CO2, CO, HAPs, HCs, NOx, SOx, etc. But it does cut down on a lot of the most toxic stuff.
Don't toss out this BS unless you have data to back it up.
ps. I'm an emissions control engineer, so I do have some idea of what I'm talking about. Do you?
12-05-2006, 09:09 PM
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Originally Posted by importkid,Dec 5 2006, 09:45 PM
My TP has made my driving experience in the S2000 more enjoyable (go figure...it can be done) and that's what is important IMHO.