Trufit Exhaust Blogger

A poorly performing catalytic converter isn’t like most other working vehicle systems. If a car fuse blows, an electrical system goes on the blink. It’s the same with the engine because you feel the misfiring cylinders. The engine’s overheating, the car’s stalling out, and there’s a general performance drop off. No, a bad catalytic converter isn’t easy to diagnose, but its symptoms can really hit hard. Hard-hitting Environmental Symptoms What happens when your vehicle’s catalytic converter goes bad? Well, your emissions are moving unprocessed into the atmosphere. When it was functioning properly, the chemical neutralization process converted those emissions into harmless compounds. That’s no longer the case. In the short-term, the car no longer complies with local vehicle emissions standards, as set by a nationally accredited authority. From a long-term perspective, those harmful emissions are contributing to the global warming problems we’re all trying so hard to preven...

Use your five senses when a car exhaust leak is suspected. Swap out the sense of taste for common sense, though, because you’re not about to lick a failing exhaust pipe. Anyways, the symptoms we’re looking for are likely to cause a racket, and they’ll probably stink. Finally, look for clouds of nasty gases. Better yet, come with us now as we describe these common symptoms. Noise and Vibrations A performance-tuned exhaust roar is loud, but there’s a feeling of refined control behind the sonic rumbling.  Damaged car exhaust  systems, on the other hand, create a hissing and crackling racket. Listen for the irregular sputtering tones as a rusted or blown seam is forced open. The backpressure is leaking, perhaps before any hazardous emissions are scrubbed from the discharge. A “bad vibes” feeling often accompanies the noise. The harsh metallic reverberations propagate through the chassis, run up the steering wheel, and reduce the vehicle’s handling characteristics. Livin...

A double chamber exhaust system  is arguably one of the most attractive aftermarket additions on the market. Instead of a narrow containment area, one that limits the processing innards, a beefed up double chamber unit provides ample gas routing space. Broadened  exhaust tips  peer out from the expanded profile so that the overall shape of the system suggests pure performance output force. With that being said, do they deliver on that performance front as well as they do in the looks department? Double Chambered Performance Gains  If the different pipe crossover profiles in the mid-pipe lines act as inline control elements, the sections that control how the back pressure gasses interact, then an end-point  double chamber exhaust system  manages that enhanced performance envelope at the output threshold. Designed with doubled-up tailpipes, the expanded chamber provides a figurative exclamation point of exhalation for those gases, with the signature...