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Bowtie4Life
01-17-2009, 10:53 AM
ok, noticed this about a month back, for some reason, I'm gonna take it apart today hopefully, but it seems that exhaust is mainly coming out of the driver's side tailpipe of my exhaust, when it was first put on it came out both, would fog out of both when the condensation would burn off and all, now it only comes out the one. When I cover the car up the pass tailpipe is cool, and the driver's is warm, so it seems it doesn't come out both when cruising, and I'm not sure what it does at WOT, anyone else have any thing tlike this happen before?

Camaro_94
01-17-2009, 12:29 PM
My guess would be that the air exits on the drivers side more so than on the passengers side because its easier to exit there. I looked up a picture of the magnaflow exhaust systems for F-Bodies, and thats at least what my guess would be. The passengers side pipe makes a 180 degree bend, followed by a 90 degree bend, which compared to the drivers side which only has a 90 degree bend, its much easier for the air to exit there.

http://i245.photobucket.com/albums/gg76/Camaro_94/camaropic.jpg

My Formula does the same thing, but with the passengers side. Air would still be flowing through, but not as much.

Could be wrong, but that would be my guess. I think that the 180 degree followed by a 90 degree bend would make it harder for the air to exit out that way, or exit out as quickly as the drivers side pipe would.

YZF
01-17-2009, 03:00 PM
My maggy catback doesnt look like that. From over the axle, it goes into the backside of the muffler and only one comes out of the drivers side, 2 come out on the side of the passenger side of the muffler.

Strange.

Camaro_94
01-17-2009, 03:34 PM
Does yours look more like this one??

http://images.magnaflow.com/02product/parts/15620_lg.jpg

Bowtie4Life
01-17-2009, 07:14 PM
Does yours look more like this one??

http://images.magnaflow.com/02product/parts/15620_lg.jpg
yup, that the one I have, and before it went on I looked iside the muffler, and the way that it's made it's not any easier for the air to come out one side than the other. It never used to do it, only in like the last month or so. Gonna pull it off tomorrow to look inside of it.

YZF
01-18-2009, 01:18 PM
Thats how mine is setup. It bolted right up and didnt have any issues with getting the tips straight. Not bad for a free catback :)

Bowtie4Life
01-18-2009, 10:32 PM
well I pulled it apart and didn't see anything out of the ordinary, everything looked fine, but it's still doin it, I don't know what's made it change, oh well.

WS6ix
01-18-2009, 11:47 PM
wouldnt be surprized if something crawled up in there

Bowtie4Life
01-19-2009, 12:41 AM
but I pulled the tail pipes off and looked in them, nothing there, and looked into the muffler and could see through it, only thig I saw was the splitter in the center of the muffler that directs the air to the tailpipes.