Fake dual exhaust. How stupid is this?
Got behind a Nissan Altima on the ride to work this morning, and as we're idling in traffic, it dawns on me that even though the Altima has "dual" exhaust (one pipe on each side), exhaust is only coming out of one side (passenger's, FWIW).
And it got me to thinking about fake dual exhausts, and how much it irks me. Now, there's one thing if you want to turn your Mustang 2.3 I4 into a GT wannabe by slapping the "5.0" emblem on the side and bolting a completely fake pipe to the underside of the car. You want to look like a moron when I blow you away in my Buick Regal, more power to you. Heck, I can even grok the need to screw on a Borla tip on your GTI so it sounds better.
But when the factory does it, it's just plain pathetic.
My wife had a Chrysler LeBaron in the '90s. It had a single muffler with a fake twin pipe exhaust. Rather than have two pipes coming out of the muffler (like my Regal, frex), there was one pipe that was then split. And it wasn't an even split, either - the left pipe was branched off the right pipe. Talk about stupid. Especially after 6 years and 100K - the left pipe was brand new, the right one all gunked up with years of use...
Now, I understand that putting in a true dual exhaust set-up in today's day and age is an expensive proposition. The extra catalytic converter alone would add a not-inconsequential heft to the price tag, as well as another expensive part to fix down the road. But what happened to splitting the exhaust pipe after the cat and running through twin mufflers? That way, the split's even, it looks correct, and the extra cost is marginal. Why on EARTH would you split at the muffler, resulting in one pipe functioning and the other pipe sitting there unused???
Then again, people buy the Cadillac Escalade or the Toyota Prius, so there's no accounting for smarts in the motoring public...
That is all.
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6 comments:
You're just jealous of my PIMPED out 1994 Dodge Neon with dual PHAT fat cans. It's off the CHAIN, Dawg!
Yeah, that's bondo, but I'm saving up for paint work at Maaco.
You suck. I was all ready for the Daily Dose of Road Rage;)
I agree, though. I could do away with the fart-can mufflers, too. Things make me crazy. Damned Honda Civic running down the road with a fart-can on it sounds like someone's riding a leaf-blower to work.
tweaker
Hey, not every day is filled with morons.
Okay, so maybe it is. But not every day a moron(s) sticks out so badly I feel the need to vent my spleen.
Okay, so maybe I do. But today's sermon-on-the-keyboard was about the abject stupidity of Corporate Motoring, Inc. trying to ca$h in on the tuner craze. And, as Corporate Motoring, Inc. typically does, missing the point entirely...
Whatta you, retahded? Everyone knows fake fat muffliz make your cah go wickid fast!
Jay you are obviously not Fast, nor Furious.
Must have been an illusion. Altima exhaust is split after the cat (after the rear suspension actually) and has two functional mufflers and two functional exhaust outlets.
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