Trufit Exhaust Blogger

Car mods are designed to augment engine performance . Of course, an aesthetic enhancement is also desirable, but engine improvements come first. Lake pipes adhere to this core aftermarket principle by first enhancing engine respiration, but they also follow the second law of the aftermarket charter. That’s right, they inject cars with retro appeal. Stylish by design, what does it take to create this iconic 1950s exhaust mod ? Exposed Piping When a gearhead allows his four-wheeled addiction to take over, a car’s suspension sometimes drops. The lowered body profile looks cool, but the chassis is now scraping the road. Imagine performance enthusiasts debating what to do with the exhaust pipes when they’re faced with this issue. They pause for a moment, sure, but then the work surges forward again as the pipes move up and out to the side of the chassis. This move preceded the birth of the first lake pipes . Side-mounted and fully exposed, the long tubes hugged the lower sides...

Exhaust manifolds are designed to couple each exhaust port of an engine’s cylinder head to a single outlet pipe. Functionally, the steely unit collects ejected waste gasses from the multiple cylinders and ejects them into a single pipe conduit. Viewed from a purely structural viewpoint, the little collector unit is manufactured as a blocky series of aligned ports. Its job is to merge the collected streams of cylinder-burnt gasses, to combine the multiple exhaust outlets into a single channel. Let’s take a closer look. Engine-to-Exhaust System Interface Exhaust manifolds bolt to car engines via heat-resistant gaskets. They’re the compact factory-installed workhorses that convert multiple exhaust outputs into a lone stream so that the unified volume of dirty gas can be expelled down one channel and out through a car’s tailpipe. Unfortunately, that compact profile does not favour free engine respiration. It’s a bit like dropping your head to your chest and trying to breathe freel...