Couldn?t help but laugh as I walked past a Ford Puma on the way home just now. It had an aftermarket exhaust pipe fitted with the same bore as a 4 litre tin of paint. What?s it all about?
Cleaned up. Dave, you know why... smokie, BR Moderator
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The oversize exhaust tips always make me smile as well.
Have a look at www.ricecop.com for some nice examples...
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Tee hee BBD.
Perhaps it makes a masculine booming sound on the overrun or something?
I think those sewer-pipe exhausts look funny on gutless little cars too, although there's a Nissan Skyline in my neighbourhood that has one and looks only slightly ridiculous.
People used to stick all kinds of things on their tail pipes. I always thought a flat fishtail pointing down at the ground at 45 degrees looked especially naff.
What's happened to those little whistles some people used to have in their exhausts?
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Mortified spotty yoouf in Chatham a few weeks ago, he was in a Corsa, twing baked bean can exhausts with only gases out of one, massive body kit on that would cover 10inch wide wheels, various colours including 20 shades of Primer, standard size steel wheels no alloys!
I started laughing & couldn't stop & he looked in his mirror & saw me & turned very red!
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Bit unkind of you TR7.
It's people's driving that always makes me laugh (as an alternative to mouthing curses and waving a fist out of the window), but they never seem to get the point. Probably think it's an approving smile.
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suppose i musta bean...... (prefer hp mind if they were availabuble) ..........a chav in my yoof
i had the primer
the bigger wheels on the back (cosmics)
the rostyles on the front
and the wolf whistle connected to the inlet manifold.............................
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Followed one of these comedians on my way to work yesterday. He kept shooting off ahead when thelight changed, but I of course caught up at the next set.
What annoyed me though was he had chosen to smoke his rear lights and therefore it was hard to tell when he was braking. IMO meddling with the standard lighting in such a way should not be allowed - Vauxhall designed the Corsa's lights the way they did for a reason after all.
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Here's a nice, subtle little number on a Clio:
www.barryboys.co.uk/photos5/Zorst3breakout.JPG
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Here's a nice, subtle little number on a Clio: www.barryboys.co.uk/photos5/Zorst3breakout.JPG
:^D That's too funny!
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What an excellent site, especially the bit from "Loudbass" claiming "psicological" damage brilliant. Members cars are show that they are a sane and balanced lot.
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That should be in the bumpers thread!
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"Cleaned up. Dave, you know why... smokie"
Boooo! Over zealous! I?ve seen far worse on Richard and Judy! Booooo!
D x
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i saw a 1995 escort with 2 triple exhausts on the back!!! i never laughed so much
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The flat fishtail (esp with red reflector on the back) was good for keeping the oily soot of the bodywork - and gave a bit more of a bark on the overrun if you had a Morris Minor...
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As previously posted in one of the Silly Threads:
The best fun with a Morris Minor was to put a length (about a foot) of bicycle inner tube on the end of the exhaust.
Idling speed: no noticeable effect.
When driven, the tubing flaps up and down, and the sound emulates a world champion whoopee cushion.
:-)
Oz (as was)
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Just saw a Ford KaKa parked down the road with obtrusive sideskirts and other stick-ons, complete with fat exhaust...
is it conceivable that the thing came out of the factory like that? I've seen worse fitting factory body kits.
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TVR blooped on this big exhaust thing too, with their Sagaris with its transverse truck-type stacks. Hideous!
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TVR also sacrificed a few BHP with these side-facing exhausts because under full blast the thrust from the exhausts, if they faced rearwards, would boost performance by a fraction of an iota.
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At Bournemouth on Sunday I saw this shed of a Vauxhall Corsa, with a ridiculous body kit; and an even more ridiculous exhaust system on it. It had 5 exhaust tail pipes, and each one was approx 9 inches in diameter.
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Yeah but its propa phat innit bruv
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Other words actually crossed my mind.
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Had to edit this one out, sorry if responses were lost... not sure there was anything important there anyway ;-)
smokie, BR Moderator
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Those fat tail pipes look like you could chuck a spud or a tennis ball up them. I'm sure people must be tempted to do just that.
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The pipes on that Clio look awfully like the race can off a motorbike.
I bet they say "for off road use only" on them which means there's no baffles.
Why would you do that when fitting one of these to a bike is expensive as they often need re-jetted to ensure it runs properly?
The moron is probably killing his engine in the quest to make his 1.2 sound like a sports car.......
It just goes to show that no mental or engineering ability is a barrier to making one's car look ridiculous.
If i was behinf that I'd be thinking "ramming speed"....
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With current attitudes towards pollution etc, the exhaust pipe will probably become the 'indecent' part of a car that should never be visible, like on my Passat.
In the USA in the 1970's and 1980's, some owner drivers with flagship tractor units with their twin exhaust stacks actuially fitted a set-up where extra fuel could be burned in the exhaust to create lots of black smoke! How times have changed.
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Sooooooo tempted to do that to one near where I live. Wonder what would happen.
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When I see a 'dustbin' tailpipe I'm tempted to put a handfull of ball bearings in there, but would they hear it over the stereo....
Steve.
Xantia HDi Exclusive.
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