Preposterous exhaust pics

[ManOpener]

Benjo42 said:

This reminds me, my dad had a leaky exhaust and the MOT was due on the rass-claat, so I gave him and ART race can off my 400 Honda NC29. It sounded awesome, no word of a lie. Bagged a bird in that at one point too! Ultimate pulling machine.

There's a Suzuki Carry round here with two pedal-bin sized exhausts. I'll try and get a picture, it's hilarious. Sounds like a chipmunk farting in a tub of custard.

Edited by ManOpener on Friday 19th August 17:00

[Europa1]

ManOpener said:

Sounds like a chimpunk farting in a tub of custard.

That is one of the best descriptions I have seen in a long time!

[anonymous-user]

Clivey said:

yonex said:

So what are they supposed to do. Make just 150 (plus spares) rear ends?

400 (150 is the UK allocation). There is precident as the Clubsport & Clubsport S bodywork is already different from a standard GTI. Having said that, I'd have designed every 4-pot Golf with a single exit to start with.

It's not worth their while either way. As you say all of them would have looked better with a single outlet.

[DoubleD]

PoopahScoopah said:

I clicked on this thread expecting a bit of a laugh at all the mental examples, in a Barryboys stylee. Somewhere in the first few pages I seem to have strayed in to a different thread, populated by anally retentive bores discussing the regulations around how many pipes are permissible by engine configuration, size and power output. Jesus fking wept guys, you should take a step back and have a look at yourselves! If I was Clarkson I'd be mocking you using that adenoidal impression he always does.

I'd wager that any of you lot who are being critical because it's "shallow", "style over substance" "for the sheep" etc etc are being just a touch hypocritical. Unless you can honestly, hand on heart say that you have never, EVER, bought a car or modified a car due in some part to the way it looks - how YOU want it to look - then you are a hypocrite.

And what really gets my goat throughout all the bullst of the last 8,9 or 10 pages is that you are all savvy enough to know that cars for the masses are not designed entirely around function and nothing else. So no, maybe a Golf or a Civic doesn't NEED 4 tailpipes, or even 2, but a 1.2 supermini doesn't NEED 17" wheels, we don't NEED cup holders, we don't NEED infotainment systems, we don't NEED air cooled seats, we don't NEED multiples driving modes.....do I need to go on?

So with all that out of my system.........
- The Golf R does look a bit silly in the context of the rest of it looking subdued, but it doesn't offend me.
- The Civic Type-R looks silly to begin with, so the 4 tailpipes are entirely in-keeping with the overall image and therefore it works as a whole.
- The latest Corvette with 4 big pipes in the middle in a row is bloody ghastly - if slightly smaller and a gap between the 2 banks like they used to be that would be fine, but for some reason when they are in a row they just look ridiculous.
- I have no issue with the latest trend for fake "tips" as I don't really see them as being tailpipes, but rather a trim part of the bumper (which is exactly what most of them are). If the overall design is cohesive and attractive then so fking what that it's not an actual tailpipe? So what, we have to stick with a piece of round pipe hanging below the bumper for the rest of eternity? Heaven forbid that car design evolves eh?
- And now to somewhat contradict by point above, I do draw the line at fake tips where there is no exhaust exit when it's just been added to up the pipe count. If it's to the overall benefit of the design then OK (as I said above), but if it's an example where they only seem to have added extra pipes to make the car look more powerful but you can clearly see it's just a bit of trim with nothing behind, then that does become jarring.

Bit of a petty gripe on this one, but I find the position of the twin pipes on the E55 AMG annoying. If they were a few inches further out towards the edge of the car it would be perfect.
http://images.pistonheads.com/nimg/33349/amg_marke...

Yeah some people just need to lighten up.

[havoc]

Phon_E87 said:

SuperchargedVR6 said:

They do to VAG haters.

I don't recall seeing any complaints on here about the Civic's equally high tailpipe count.

I got no problem with quads provided they're practical.

The Ricer looks like a laser-equipped tranformatron, and needs to have multitubes. I have it on reliable advice the outer one of each pair fires out a stream of Uzi-equipped sharks...

I'm a serial Honda owner (current car is an import FD2, like the silver one posted on p.1 with the downward tip-extension for trackday noise), and I think the FK2 is a bit of a dog's breakfast to look at. The quad-pipes look good, for a quad pipe setup (agree on the GT-R link), but from an engineering perspective they're nonsense - inline-4 needs one pipe only (like mine and like pretty much every hot hatch up to the late-2000's), and the twin-twin setup is adding extra weight from extra pipework - hardly true "Type R" philosophy!

[AMGJocky]

Piston-Ed said:

Is it me, or is a black TVR Tuscan still one of the best ever looking cars from that angle?

Mince said:

Hard to argue with TVR's exhaust selection always straight to the point ....or just straight through :P

Agreed. Utterly gorgeous.

[David-qu7im]

Thoughts on my GTR four pipes, all fully connected and functional?

[VladD]

David-qu7im said:

Thoughts on my GTR four pipes, all fully connected and functional?

It's an epic car, so 4 exhausts are fully justified in my opinion.

[ZesPak]

David-qu7im said:

Thoughts on my GTR four pipes, all fully connected and functional?

Worst "look at my GTR" post EVER!


I'm not jealous, honest.

[David-qu7im]

Though that was what the topic was about?

[ploz]

I took this pic at the 'launch' of the Jaguar C-X75 a few years back. Of couse, it never made it to the road, but must warrant an honourable mention just for the most awesome bumper sticker.

Edited by ploz on Saturday 20th August 11:58

[Dave Hedgehog]

EngageSportMode said:

Merc-AMG A45 gives the impression of having four tailpipes built into the diffuser. But it's all just trim, with the actual exhaust hiding way behind it:

i believe that's the stock one, if you pay for the sports exhaust it is all real, although this may only be on the face lift model

[ZesPak]

ploz said:

I took this pic at the 'launch' of the Jaguar C-X75 a few years back. Of couse, it never made it to the road, but must warrant an honourable mention just for the most awesome bumper sticker.

That's brilliant.

It shows that for some manufacturer, some projects, there really are people with a sense of humor and a love for what they do working.

[darkfold]

You can have a preposterous single exit exhaust (It's mine and I love it!)

[griffin dai]

Four for me

[Vitorio]

ploz said:

I took this pic at the 'launch' of the Jaguar C-X75 a few years back. Of couse, it never made it to the road, but must warrant an honourable mention just for the most awesome bumper sticker.

Edited by ploz on Saturday 20th August 11:58

Such a shame that it never ran, a turbine-electric car, wouldve been awesome

[DoubleD]

David-qu7im said:

Thoughts on my GTR four pipes, all fully connected and functional?

You are only allowed 4 exhaust pipes if you have a letter R in your name and if its a Wednesday. Im afraid its not your choice.

[Smokey32]

Lovin them saxos! Can imagine the owners think there great.

4 always look good on a AMG.

[Escort3500]

griffin dai said:

Four for me

Fully justified given the car's spec Sir

[TazLondon]

Four tailpipes look best. All cars should come with at least four tailpipes with options for more. You can never have enough 'zorst.

The way BMW have done the four tailpipes on an M3 is rubbish. They need to be at the edges to make the car look hard.

Ironically, my previous B7 RS4 actually hid the four outlets with an oval tailpipe covering each pair, which was a bit of a negative point in my view.