Re: dual exhausts

[Trisha Bethen <trishab@mv.mv.com>]

On Wed, 21 Aug 1996, Phil Payne wrote:

> In message <Pine.BSI.3.91.960820152626.8846C-100000@mv.mv.com> Trisha Bethen writes:
> 
> >>> Could a dual exhaust really make enough of a performance difference to 
> >>> justify the related expense in hardware? Anybody ever thought about 
> >>> retrofitting this to other 20v turbo cars, or even 10v turbo cars?
> 
> >> A dual exhaust might be a little easier to package into the restricted 
> >> space of the 5KCSTQ cars.
> 
> > You were talking splitting the ports......such a pain and a definate drop 
> > in HP......evidenced in the siamesed ports of the older Capris.......
> 
> I think it would be unlikely that Audi would ever go to a dual exhaust system, 
> for a quite different and more prosaic reason.  At present, Audis driven on the 
> majority of the world's roads have their exhaust outlet on the side of the car 
> nearest the centre of the road.  In theory, this helps to keep the fumes away 
> from pedestrians.  A dual exhaust would not do this.
> 
> There's an interesting cultural difference between the UK and Germany.  If 
> there is a single line of parking spaces along a road but at right angles to 
> it, Germans will park facing inwards (so their exhaust doesn't soil the wall) 
> and then reverse out.  The British will usually reverse in because it's illegal 
> to back out onto a main road in the UK.

In New Hampshire it is illegal to emerge or open your door in a parking 
lot because you are opening your door into a public 
roadway.......imagination that......it's a really OLD law that never made 
it off the books.....oh....a parking lot is considered a public roadway 
up here and you can get sighted for speeding, driving to 
endanger......wrong side of the road....everything.....