Exhaust question..sort of

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jester
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Exhaust question..sort of

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Hi. I noticed that when i put my hand over the ends of the exhausts when the engine is running that one side i can feel hot gases and the other is cold which i thought was strange, the nearside being the hottest..Can anyone tell me if this is normal and if not what could be the cause of it. Thanks
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tinysmall
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Its normal. The end of the downpipes where they link are poorly engineered and one pipe physically sticks into the other partially blocking it off, causing a smaller airflow etc. You can file it away but not sure how that would affect the fueling. I just left mine.
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Jester, Tiny is right, the righthand side exhaust does run cooler due to a built in restriction by Honda. I'm not sure it's a poorly engineered system :lol: more like it's meant to be there IMHO. The reason I say that is some have removed this restriction and found out they wished they hadn't, as it runs better with it.

Chris.
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