5000 turbo wastgate exhaust pipe

Mark J. Besso mbspeed at maxboostracing.com
Wed May 4 14:51:50 PDT 2011


.....also the Yamaha Seca 650 Turbo.  The wastegate had it's own pipe, but it still employed a muffler. 

Ferrari uses a separate pipe for the wastegate on the F40 and that sounds pretty darned nice!  Pretty sure they did it on the 288 GTO too. 

~Mark


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On May 4, 2011, at 5:33 PM, <laraa at sympatico.ca> wrote:

> Curiously, my good friend Denis (and trivia master wrt mechanical things)
> told me no later than yesterday that some Honda CX500 Turbo from the
> beginning of the eighties were like that : left exhaust pipe for wastegate,
> right for exhaust. So it is possible.
> 
> http://www.sportwheel.com/Used%20Bike%20Images/854082CX500T$DK.JPG
> 
> 
> Louis-Alain
> 
> 
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> Objet : 5000 turbo wastgate exhaust pipe
> 
> Anyone ever heard of making the wastegate have its own exhaust pipe instead
> of dumping into exhaust. Wonder if it would sound good or just sound like
> shit? My idea was to cut flange off downpipe cover and weld spot then run
> smaller pipe straight down off wastgate. Any ideas what it would sound like?
> 
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