RE: Exhaust fakery: Tell Me I'm Wrong

[airhawk1]

IMO the Jaguar XF is one of the worst offenders with their faux sporty tailpipe tips

[Terminator X]

Completely agree.

Apologies to the Audi fanboys but I do need to note that over in their section there is rather too much excitement that the new Q5 (?) has a piped to cabin engine note that disguises its diesel origins, come on that is simply

TX.

[Foodfocus]

What are the rules for this then. Still a personal favourite purely for the madness. Infact TVR are exhaust heros.

[jeremyc]

There are also some honorable exceptions that need to be accommodated.

I give you the Morgan Three Wheeler's twin rear exhausts from it's V-twin engine. Entirely acceptable.

[300bhp/ton]

Comical and arguably just as fake:





Kinda cool, but likely fake too:




Cool, not fake, but not factory either

[loudlashadjuster]

Thankyou, thankyou, thankyou! Bad exhausts can ruin a car. Completely*.

My personal bête noire is the E46 M3 - four pipes are bad enough when considering Rule 1, but this is an M3 so we make allowances.

However, the boys from Bayern have left insufficient space in between the two pairs and as a result it looks awful, like they couldn't make their mind up. Compare with the E39 M5 which shows judicious spacing for four pipes.

* OK, maybe not completely, but you know what I mean.

Edit: Thanks to Thumbsnap for plopping the watermark over the salient part of the image and for applying 15% JPEG image quality

Edited by loudlashadjuster on Wednesday 19th June 13:10

[Monty Python]

I've notice on some cars that have twin side-by-side tips that one of them is actually blanked off - I guess it means they can use the same silencer on more models.

I personally think this is the best:

[crostonian]

Foodfocus said:

What are the rules for this then. Still a personal favourite purely for the madness. Infact TVR are exhaust heros.

They look like the 'Heated Towel Rails' you see added to chavved up 4x4s and why they put motorbike silencers on the Tuscan I could never understand, the Griffiths pipes were cool though.

[LARK F1 GTR]

Those Transit Sport things, ok not a car but even so. I'm sure they're fake

[breezer42]

Hmm, I think the Z3M Coupé could be forgiven 4 exhausts, given how extreme the rest of its rear end is, no?

[300bhp/ton]

Monty Python said:

I've notice on some cars that have twin side-by-side tips that one of them is actually blanked off - I guess it means they can use the same silencer on more models.

I personally think this is the best:

Certainly cool looking (and sounding), but compromised in terms of exhaust tuning.

[chrisjl]

Having heard an F-type (admittedly I didn't actually notice whether it was a 6 or an 8), I agree that it sounds fantastic (very snarly). I had assumed it was benefitting from some ECU assisted enhancement though.

In other words, is this:

article said:

Exhausts hall of fame:
Jaguar F-Type V6

... compatible with this?

article said:

Pops, bangs and crackles should only occur 'naturally' and not due to contrived ECU controlled 'misfires'. Ditto flames.

I'd love to be wrong as it was a truly glorious sound.

[marshall100]

Of course it can go the other way.....



I do like the burble of a flat four, the stock exhaust on my forester turbo possibly isn't loud enough, and even this picture doesn't quite illustrate quite what I'm getting at. I'm talking about those scoobies with dustbins for silencers, the kind of car that slipped into shed territory before being scooped up by barry and his mates so they can boost the tits off it. Too loud, too noisey, your spoiling it for everyone else. More importantly, you look like a dick doing it.

[WMP]

I agree with all the rules except the 911 single pipe rule, see link below (its a bit "too fast too furious" but I like a spot of theatre in my exhausts!) :-

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lckXqMU50J4

[brasse]

Best aftermarket exhaust, if design (inline, single exit) and sound are the conditions (all natural hoonery): The Pugsport.



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5Ab7i9yqeA

[Bear Phils]

jeremyc said:

Can't disagree with any of that, but you've missed a prime offender in the exhaust trim hall of shame: the Lexus IS-F.

[possibletowel]

i think the new corvette has to be one of the worst!(with honourable mentions to the IS-F) it looks daft and ruins the entire car for me

[Roma101]

IMO it's more to do with what works best for the car in question rather than any set rules. You list the 265 as an example of a "fail". So, using your rules, would a single circular "normal" sized pipe work better? I think that would look extremely naff, especially if it was located either to the left or right of the black section of the rear bumper. In the 265's case, I think they got it right. All IMO of course!

[450Nick]

[RINGMEISTER]

Lexus IS-F probably the worst that comes to mind off the top of my head from recent

MK5 Golf R32 is a bit of a pet hate of mine

Some late 80s and early 90s Jap cars had particularly bad factory exhaust tailpipes, Preludes and early 200sx had some of the worst

I understand the point made about pops and bangs occuring naturally and not computer controlled, but we all know that if they were not artificially engineered into machinery then we would have stopped hearing these noises years ago, I'd rather have something be it slightly false rather than nothing at all