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  1. SlavaYkraine

    Car structure weaking rate over time/mileage

    Hello, I'm extremely curious as to your professional thoughts on how the car structure's strength and stiffness weaken over time/mileage. If we take a very basic and simplified example of, say, 2015 Honda Accord. Let's assume that initial stiffness was at 30,000 lb.ft and that the car is driven...
  2. SlavaYkraine

    Aftermarket Intakes for Modern Cars

    correction: I mean OEM muffler is twice longer and wider. I'm not talking about muffler tips, but muffler itself
  3. SlavaYkraine

    Aftermarket Intakes for Modern Cars

    @SomptingGuy I understand:) But when OEM muffler is twice larger in diameter than an aftermarket (I'm talking about axel-backs only here) the claims that they are more free flowing seems logical, at least on the surface. Could you please tell me why it isn't so? Thank You
  4. SlavaYkraine

    Aftermarket Intakes for Modern Cars

    @hemi Would aftermarket "louder" axel-back exhaust qualify for "reduced exhaust restriction"? Let's take 2014 Mazda 6 with a 2.5L NA engine as an example.? @Greg No, I don't think it causes any restriction - I do not have an aftermarket intake on my car, as I don't think an aftermarket one...
  5. SlavaYkraine

    Aftermarket Intakes for Modern Cars

    Gregory, thanks! What would be a counterargument to the claim that OEM intake is also tuned for relative quietness, and therefore its restrictive, and therefore an aftermarket intake - which is louder - is less restrictive, so it adds 3-10 horsepower. It sounds intuitive, but I know there is a...
  6. SlavaYkraine

    Aftermarket Intakes for Modern Cars

    Hello to people who are TANGIBLY USEFUL to society! I have great admiration for engineers and in my next life will be one:) I have a question to which I am not able to find an answer, and I have been searching for several years now, and actually have run out of words and key-phrases to input...

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