Car Exhausts
blu3cat
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One thing that struck me as I was stuck in a queue of traffic yesterday lunchtime going through the West End of London.
Why are car exhausts on the left hand side of cars, pumps out all of the fumes straight into cyclists pedestrians etc.
I've seen a few with the exhausts in the middle, but these are less common.
Why not put the exhausts on the right hand side?
Why are car exhausts on the left hand side of cars, pumps out all of the fumes straight into cyclists pedestrians etc.
I've seen a few with the exhausts in the middle, but these are less common.
Why not put the exhausts on the right hand side?
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Because the majority of the world drives on the right- so exhausts would ( if on right) be blowing cr*p onto pedestrians in most of world
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Have to route exhaust through all the clutch, brake, steering and throttle cable assemblies under the drivers feet otherwise....suppose this could be a technical reason why??!?!?!?!?! defeats the left hand drive thing above too!
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Motorbikes lean over at angles to corner - the higher the exhaust is - the more lean angle/clearance can be attained. hence some bikes have underseat pipes or short stubby race pipes.
On an old GPZ, low flat exhaust, I used to be able to get the exhaust on the ground regularly when cornering at speed. ON a newer GSXR - never had a can touch down - and it was a better handling, high angled exhaust bike!
Makes sense, but oh, if only they put an angled nozzle pointing down on th end, so when the person in front of me with a motorbike pulls away I don't get a warm puff of exhaust in the face.
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Why can't they pack all the stuff up into a little cube that you take out and dispose of responsibly?
It's not that limited.
Japan is RHD & major exporter
India, Australia, Indonesia are also RHD too
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and for the tech answer it all comes down to packaging combined with the engine design and sound/emission rules.
you will see more cars now with two pipes one each side.
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Erm lets see
cars sold in Japan, India, Australia and Indonesia, compared with USA, Canada, China, Rest of the world...
Hmm, I think the countried that drive on the right may account for possibley more car sales
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that kind of exhuast is only on V6's or bigger. but gerneraly big 4X4 are V6s and you can really see there exhuast coz there so high up. espeacily those X5's
Its closer to 3:1 according to Wikipedia (which must be right... :? )
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Left_hand_drive
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New Civics have one on each side. I think the trend is filtering down. Actually so does the Dihatsu Copen I think!
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A brief description of the political ideals that motivate the routing of exhausts on cars:-
Exhausts on the left are designed that way as cyclists on that side are more likely to be travelling at a slower pace and so needing less oxygen than the fast cyclists overtaking the cars on the right :twisted:, this is based on the communist principle of "distributing according to needs. hence the term "left wing". The cyclist on the Left wing is the one who will receive less clean oxygen, as they "need" less. Please note it is unexpected for any driver to ever see a cyclist in the mirrors they will not use, or for them to ever look further ahead than the nearest set of red lights (brake lights or traffic lights will suffice) he will first see a cyclist by his wing on either side!
The exhaust on the right are designed to please the majority of cyclists who will be on the left side of the car this is all about the capitalist principle of catering to the largest possible market share. hence "right wing" The few disaffected cyclists receiving polluted air will be passing the driver on his right wing.
The cars with two exhausts are more anarchic designed to make sure that cyclists overtaking them on either have to pay for embarrassing the drivers of these "powerfull" cars by overtaking them
Centre Exit exhausts are rare indeed, these are based on pleaasing all cyclists equally and bourgoise "other car drivers" can take all the hassle, naturally this rare exhaust system simply fit in with the rest of the "wing" definitions and came to be known as the "far left" the anti theseis of the "far right" two exhaust system.
And that represents some fine misrepresentation of politics and automotive designs
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