Drilled a hole in muffler,LOTS OF WATER !
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okay, i just asked my mom, and my uncle, they are both over 60, and grew up on a farm in montana, just south of canada (so probably just as cold as CT), and this is a completely foreign concept dude. how many beers did it take to come up with this idea?
i'm not trying to attack you, but this to me is an idiotic little idea. i'm actually from a corvette owning family myself, we have a 1995 corvette, a 2001 corvette, and my uncle has a 1978 silver anniversary corvette, but non of them have holes drilled in the mufflers.
i'm not trying to attack you, but this to me is an idiotic little idea. i'm actually from a corvette owning family myself, we have a 1995 corvette, a 2001 corvette, and my uncle has a 1978 silver anniversary corvette, but non of them have holes drilled in the mufflers.
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i have to say...that is the worst idea i have ever heard...make that heard in a while...how does water get in your exhaust?the only water in your exhaust would just be condensation from sitting out over night. it wouldn't be that much, then, as soon as you fire up the car and start driving it around, the hot exhaust gases will heat the exhaust up to above boiling temperatures and send all the water out as steam.
now, lets just say, hypothetically that water does enter the exhaust system overnight, and can freeze the cat and make it fail or whatever, the problem is that your exhaust system is pretty flat and level, nearly parallel to the ground, so the water isn't going to drain out unless you park on a slope so that the gravity drains the water down. but wait, if that were the case anyway, then all the water would just drain back and settle in the muffler anyway, and not in the cat, and thus just be waiting to get expelled when the exhaust gas heats it up anyway.
i'm sorry, but as far as the realm of useless car mods goes, this one is pretty useless, relatively harmless, but useless. also, the reason why you don't have holes in your exhaust system is so that you don't have exhaust gases entering the passenger cabin and inebriating the drivers.
so please, reconsider this, and then plug those holes up with some mighty putty or something.
now, lets just say, hypothetically that water does enter the exhaust system overnight, and can freeze the cat and make it fail or whatever, the problem is that your exhaust system is pretty flat and level, nearly parallel to the ground, so the water isn't going to drain out unless you park on a slope so that the gravity drains the water down. but wait, if that were the case anyway, then all the water would just drain back and settle in the muffler anyway, and not in the cat, and thus just be waiting to get expelled when the exhaust gas heats it up anyway.
i'm sorry, but as far as the realm of useless car mods goes, this one is pretty useless, relatively harmless, but useless. also, the reason why you don't have holes in your exhaust system is so that you don't have exhaust gases entering the passenger cabin and inebriating the drivers.
so please, reconsider this, and then plug those holes up with some mighty putty or something.
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okay, i just asked my mom, and my uncle, they are both over 60, and grew up on a farm in montana, just south of canada (so probably just as cold as CT), and this is a completely foreign concept dude. how many beers did it take to come up with this idea?
i'm not trying to attack you, but this to me is an idiotic little idea. i'm actually from a corvette owning family myself, we have a 1995 corvette, a 2001 corvette, and my uncle has a 1978 silver anniversary corvette, but non of them have holes drilled in the mufflers.
i'm not trying to attack you, but this to me is an idiotic little idea. i'm actually from a corvette owning family myself, we have a 1995 corvette, a 2001 corvette, and my uncle has a 1978 silver anniversary corvette, but non of them have holes drilled in the mufflers.
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and the reason why exhaust systems rust out is because rapid heating and cooling when driving in wet conditions, where the hot exhaust gas heats up the exhaust system, and when driving in the rain, sleet and snow and salt (depends on state procedure etc), the cold water or snow or whatever that splashes the OUTSIDE of the exhaust causes it to rapidly cool for a moment, and the salt also eats at it, causing oxidation and rust on the OUTSIDE of the exhaust system.
now, lets go back to your theory that your catalytic convertor creates water, even if it did, again, the residual heat from the exhaust gas would continue to keep water droplets from forming until it was dried out. now, the condesation of water that forms inside they exhaust, would be pure water (practically distilled) and the only impurities would be remnants of burnt carbon from your exhaust gases.
now, lets go back to your theory that your catalytic convertor creates water, even if it did, again, the residual heat from the exhaust gas would continue to keep water droplets from forming until it was dried out. now, the condesation of water that forms inside they exhaust, would be pure water (practically distilled) and the only impurities would be remnants of burnt carbon from your exhaust gases.
how can you be smart enough to have a job that allows you to afford a corvette and a tc but dumb enough to think drilling a hole in your exhaust is a good idea?
give me your corvette before you drill any holes in her.
give me your corvette before you drill any holes in her.
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WHAT DO YOU DO ?