RE: PROBLEMS STILL PERSIST WITH SOOT

[quk@isham-research.demon.co.uk (Phil Payne)]

In message <933713F1FB7BD111AC2300A0C98F1AD101DC8B0D@milxpr06.kla-tencor.com> "Buchholz, Steven" writes:

> ... I don't know where this post came from, but if you're saying that you've
> got an aftermarket exhaust with the tips pointing up I wouldn't be surprised
> if you had more of a problem with soot on the back of the car.  The stock
> exhaust is usually set up to try to put the exhaust into the slipstream
> around the car ... there is a low pressure area behind the car and if you
> put exhaust gasses back there they are going to tend to pile up on the back
> of the car more so than they would on the stock system ...

Soemthing BMW got seriously wrong in the early 1980s cars.  It was very
common to see BMWs on the Autobahns with one side of the rear of the car
_noticeably_ blacker than the other.

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