Does a muffler give you more power?

[madramper]

I was searching ebay and found a dual exhaust setup for the Ofna buggies. I think it will look pretty cool coming out the back of the car. BUT, I'm not sure how the motor will react with no muffler. I used to race motocross (2 stroke), and the bike had no power if you ran it without the muffler.

Here is a link to the sale.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3156373373&category=34063

 

[nitro dave]

save your money, those dual exhaust things are junk. They will not give you any performance boost at all, in fact they will actually harm performance.

 

[madramper]

Thats what I thought. I wouldn't think it would give me any power but I think it would look cool. Of course you can't put anything on thats gonna give you LESS power!!!!

 

[slothy]

wtf lol - house piping - redneck racing or what ?

 

[Candyman]

$10 worth of copper tubing and couplers, a little solder and a blow torch and you can have one. 'Cuz that's all they are. Part of me wants to run to Home Depot and make one just to see. But the rest of me knows that it ain't gonna help a thing. Stick with the stuff that real companies make...

 

[RiceLaxer06]

I've actually been thinking of attaching one of those to a normal muffler, just for the look. If i attached it to the normal realease point for exhaust on the muffler, do you think i will lose power?\\

Andrew

 

[madramper]

I doubt you would lose much if any. All you are doing is addedin length to the pipe. If you remove the muffler altogether, to remove tha backpressure.