This may be a crazy idea.. but awhile ago, someone told me that it makes the exhaust work better it you stick a hose through the exhaust tip and into the muffler and fill it up with water.. the water will spray out once you start to rev but the process is suppose to make the muffler work better.. i can't think of any logical reasoning on why it is so.. can someone enlighten me.. or it's just a big pile of BS.

 

I can't think of any advantage to flooding your exhaust with water. I would never do that to my exhaust.

 

If you even think about doing this, you will truely be the king of the boneheaded.

 

Yeah, just stick the hose in there.. And fill it up good.. try to get it all the way into the cat..

Thats great for messing up your car.. =P

ZuM

 

I did that to my dad's mercedes when I was 6 years old. I was washing the car and decided to clean the tailpipe. Big mistake. The car wouldn't start. My dad took a little thing of wood and used it was a cork. The engine cranked and all this dirty water shot out with the cork. The car worked afterwards, but my dad wasn't too happy. Now my girlfriend always brings up that story. (It's humbling to talk about it.)

 

DO NOT DO IT!!

 

Here's a really great, cheap octane booster. Get yourself about a cup of sugar and mix it thoroughly with a quart of water . . . ordinary tap water should do the trick, you won't need Perrier for this one! Then pour the mixture into your gas tank and away you go!

Oops! There I go being irresponsible. DON'T DO THAT, WHATEVER YOU DO !!! On the other hand, if you've decided to fill up your exhaust with water, you might as well go for broke!

[Edited by y2kse on 01-17-2001 at 09:14 PM]

 

wtf? who told you that?! Even my mom has enough common sense to know that water-in-a-muffler won't do a damn thing.

 

A hose up its tailpipe??? Sounds like a Maxima enema. Freud may think you may have an Edipus complex and ***** envy with such thoughts...

 

Freud would say that he may like it in the tail pipe! hehe

 

To say nothing of the Marquis de Sade !!!

 

heres an idea, fill it completely up so it goes to the valves. You can clean the carbon off of them!!!!! (do not do this) The only water that i have seen in an exhaust is the condensation. There should only be a little bit of it though. I would think if you filled your muffler up with water that you would create too much back pressure and hurt something.

 

Actually guys, his idea is a bit wild, but is based on an idea already widely accepted and employed in IC engines.

Many personal watercraft actually spray water into the exhaust stream in a manner proportional to engine speed. This water changes the resonance and tuning frequencies of the exhaust system. Essentially, what they are trying to do, is simulate a long pipe for low end torque and a short pipe for top end power. My Kawasaki Jet Ski used this exact set up. It works.

 

Thanks for the friendly advice! I just wanted to find out anything about it.

 

The difference here is you are spray water INTO the exhaust path, not along with the exhaust stream.

I think muffler bearings help better in this situation.

-Shing

 

I installed a set of muffler bearings in my GLH Turbo when I rebuilt the engine last month. Im guessing they gave at least 20 hp. BWAHAHAHAHHHA

But, the garden hose in the muffler still has potential. I just need to get a really long hose and not drive very far from the spigot. Also, make sure the muffler is stainless steel. Othwerwise, youll get corrosion problems

 

Not sure where this came from. When we used to build hot rods, we would get the muffler nice and hot, then spray cold water in. It would shatter all the fiber glass in the muffler, Start it back up, rev the gas, and all the glass blows out of the tail pipe. Straight exhaust while keeping the apperence of having a muffler. Of course I am sure they don't run glass packs on a Maxima.

 

Once you spray water in the exhaust, are you jamming a banana in both tailpipes to seal them off before starting the car too?

 

The only reason I know of doing this is if you have a glasspack muffler and you want to be LOUD.

I've seen/heard it work.
Took the truck on the highway and kept the RPMs kinda high, then raced back home to shatter the pipe with water.

 

Quite a thread bump we have here, going all the way back to January of 2001

 

Whoops.
Didn't even notice.

 

Lol they are cooling the exhaust with water. This is mandated in all watercraft engines regardless of size.