Anatomy of an S2000 muffler
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Anatomy of an S2000 muffler
In preparation to recycle an S2000 muffler onto my Accord...
Morbid curiosity [that and an angle grinder] got the best of me and I decided to open up the "leftover" S2000 muffler. The results:
Three sections. Middle section is completely sealed. The middle section is some resonance chamber that the two side tubes are pleated and can pass exhaust through.
TRIPLE Wall Stainless Steel... and I thought I was anal.
My question is... How in the hell can someone NOT make power when swapping out these mufflers? I can definitely see how this exhaust is quiet (hence the reason for going on the Accord)... but this has got to rob power??? I can see how Honda flared the inner tubes on the insides of the muffler to minimize loss... but this would not be my first choice to make some decent power.
But then again... what do I know?
Morbid curiosity [that and an angle grinder] got the best of me and I decided to open up the "leftover" S2000 muffler. The results:
Three sections. Middle section is completely sealed. The middle section is some resonance chamber that the two side tubes are pleated and can pass exhaust through.
TRIPLE Wall Stainless Steel... and I thought I was anal.
My question is... How in the hell can someone NOT make power when swapping out these mufflers? I can definitely see how this exhaust is quiet (hence the reason for going on the Accord)... but this has got to rob power??? I can see how Honda flared the inner tubes on the insides of the muffler to minimize loss... but this would not be my first choice to make some decent power.
But then again... what do I know?
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Originally Posted by RWD_RCKT,Jan 23 2006, 10:00 PM
My question is... How in the hell can someone NOT make power when swapping out these mufflers?
The "straight-thru" (passenger-side) canister might also be a little less restrictive; we don't know since you didn't cut that one open.
We do know Honda went through many many exhaust designs looking for something that was reasonably quiet without being lossy. (There's a photo in Dan Carney's "S2000" book of a huge stack of prototype exhausts that were ultimately rejected.) Looks like they achieved this, as thetz noted, at least partly by using heavily insulated dual canisters, albeit at the expense of high weight.
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