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Old 05-23-2010, 07:54 AM
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Default Left exhaust tip hotter than right?
Is this anything to be concerned about? Coloration inside the tip is the same.
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Old 05-29-2010, 11:49 PM
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On a stock type muffler the left side is more of a straight shot out where the right side is more of a ring around the rosey getting out.
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more info. what cat back and mid pipe?
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On a stock type muffler the left side is more of a straight shot out where the right side is more of a ring around the rosey getting out.
If its stock, then this is gonna be your answer!
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he's got a forged motor with a whistle...i doubt its a stock muffler.
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he's got a forged motor with a whistle...i doubt its a stock muffler.
good eyes should have looked at sig first!
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my driver side pipes seem to be dominent when expelling exhaust on my Magnaflow muffler. It's kinda funny looking on cold morning start-ups
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Mine is the same way. Is that a problem?
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don't see why it would be... the exhaust gas is just trying to find the easiest way out. Just so happens it's the driver side. Doesn't take much for one side to flow better than the other. Could be anything causing it. One pipe being higher than the other, one pipe having more turns than the other, a merge in the pipe not centered absolutely in the middle, etc...

No biggie... if the gas needs more room to exit, it's not like the passenger side is blocked off. It'll find it's way out that way if it needs to...
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Originally Posted by Soul TKR
don't see why it would be... the exhaust gas is just trying to find the easiest way out. Just so happens it's the driver side. Doesn't take much for one side to flow better than the other. Could be anything causing it. One pipe being higher than the other, one pipe having more turns than the other, a merge in the pipe not centered absolutely in the middle, etc...

No biggie... if the gas needs more room to exit, it's not like the passenger side is blocked off. It'll find it's way out that way if it needs to...
Makes sense. But just a thought. Shouldn't it come out first and be hotter trough the passenger side since the the pipe over the axle is on the passenger side going into the muffler which would be closer to the passenger side exhaust tip.
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Originally Posted by jugz ss
Makes sense. But just a thought. Shouldn't it come out first and be hotter trough the passenger side since the the pipe over the axle is on the passenger side going into the muffler which would be closer to the passenger side exhaust tip.
No. Re-read post #2.
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No. Re-read post #2.
My exhaust isn't stock and you read SOUL TKR's post. I'm asking that because what he said about finding the easiest way out.
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Makes sense. But just a thought. Shouldn't it come out first and be hotter trough the passenger side since the the pipe over the axle is on the passenger side going into the muffler which would be closer to the passenger side exhaust tip.
really it all just depends on the internals of the muffler and how everything is routed and baffled... plus if the muffler is mounted on a slight angle, hot air rises so your exhaust will try to exit out the side of the muffler that is sitting higher.

really.... it's nothing to worry about at all...

curious... what's your exhaust setup?
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Originally Posted by Soul TKR
really it all just depends on the internals of the muffler and how everything is routed and baffled... plus if the muffler is mounted on a slight angle, hot air rises so your exhaust will try to exit out the side of the muffler that is sitting higher.

really.... it's nothing to worry about at all...

curious... what's your exhaust setup?
Yeah I know it's not problem but just checking.

SLP lt's and ory with I believe a magnaflow catback. Car came with the catback and it has a magnaflow muffler so I'm guessing that's what it is.
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Originally Posted by jugz ss
Yeah I know it's not problem but just checking.

SLP lt's and ory with I believe a magnaflow catback. Car came with the catback and it has a magnaflow muffler so I'm guessing that's what it is.
yea... so you basically have the same setup as me...
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Originally Posted by Soul TKR
yea... so you basically have the same setup as me...
What's your setup?
Have any sound clips?
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