Re: dual exhausts

["Graydon D. Stuckey" <graydon@apollo.gmi.edu>]

On Tue, 20 Aug 1996, Steven Buchholz wrote:

> > > So, it appears that the S6 is a car with an inline 5cyl, 20v turbo motor.
> > > Correct?
> > 
> > How do you divide 2 into 5 evenly?  It wouldn't make alot of sense to 
> > split it 3 and 2 unless you sized the twin exhausts perfectly so that a 
...
> > 
> ... you're forgetting one other fact, the car only has one *turbo*  It 
> turns out that the S4 and 200q20v have dual exhaust ... at least from 
> shortly after the WG and through the cats and mufflers.  I would imagine 
> that is has some positive effect for horsepower.
Steve,

	Wow, serious brain fade here!!!  Sorry, you are right, the whole 
issue is the fact that there is only one turbo, so why split it anyway?

> ... would you hook up a smaller turbo on the 2-cyl exhaust?  Perhaps feed 
> the output of the two cyl turbo to the other 3 cyls? ... ;-)

Now this could get really wanky.

Later, ---------------------------------------------------------- 
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