What’s the job of a car exhaust system?Your car exhaust system does three jobs. First, the catalytic converter portion reduces harmful emissions. Depending on the year, make, model and engine, your car may have a single catalytic converter or as many as four separate catalytic converters (more on th
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2019-05
For this installment of the Heat shield Products blog, we wanted to bring you an easy tech tip on installing exhaust wrap on your exhaust system if you have a flex pipe as part of the pipes. No matter what type of exhaust wrap you are installing, a section of exhaust flex pipe in your exhaust system
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2019-03
You can save money on your car exhaust by fitting a Flexi-pipesOne of the main part of our business is fitting new exhausts. It has been the same now for the past 30 years, when Kwikfit were one of the first companies to give a heavy discount on new exhaust systems that they fitted. Before then we a
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2019-03
Exhaust design is often a tricky process. You want to keep the pipes as close to the body as possible for maximum ground clearance, but there are so many obstacles in the way that often force you to go underneath the frame, and you end up dragging your mufflers or header collectors across every spee
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2019-03
Internal combustion engines produce fumes known as exhaust in their normal operation. The exhaust fumes exit the engine’s cylinders after combustion and flow through the vehicle’s exhaust system for expulsion from the tailpipe. The exhaust system is made up of a series of metal pipes that transport
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2019-03
ohn Sturch, general manager of Wall Colmonoy Corporation, says that approximately 20 to 30 percent of all exhaust systems sent to Wall Colmonoy are in such bad condition, that they are beyond repair — scrap.Pay more attention"Unlike automobile exhaust systems," claims Sturch, "which simply reduce no
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2019-02
Rob SiegelMy personal hack: Extending the tailpipe so the stretcher would be constrained rather than opening up the split section at the end.I cranked down on the tool with a ratchet wrench. After a few attempts, it began to have some effect. I repeatedly test-fit the resonator, and could clearly se
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2019-02
Exhaust work, even under the best of circumstances, is a pain. Exhausts go in all clean and shiny and perfect-fitting, and eventually turn into a rusted-solid mass that often requires a Sawzall to get it out.After all, if an exhaust has to be replaced, it’s almost always because a section of it has
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2019-02
Exhaust TypesHeader-backIn the terminology part, we already became acquainted with this term. The header-back systems replace everything from the header collector to the tailpipes. By way of a header-back system, you can enlarge the diameter of your entire exhaust system. In doing so, you will enabl