re: problems still persist with soot

["Ken Keith" <ken.keith@specialdevices.com>]

quk@isham-research.demon.co.uk (Phil Payne) wrote:
> 
> "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.

Does anyone know how well the Boxster does in this respect?  I've never seen a 
dirty one, so I don't know where they get dirtiest.

Ken