I would add that your tailgate configuration also affects this
proposition. no tailgate or airgate is the worst, tailgate up is less
and tailgate down gives the least fumes in the cab [comparatively].
My straightback was on a nissan 4 banger though, so your exhaust
quantity will be different....
Terrible Tom wrote:
>
> Dan Kramarsky wrote:
>
>> Hi DMLers,
>>
>>
>> I have a custom exhaust in my '92 Dak Club Cab. It's currently a
>> 'side exit'
>> configuration with the exhaust tip right behind the RR wheel.
>> I was told that if I switch to a 'rear exit' configuration ( like I
>> want ) that the
>> exhaust fumes might enter the cab through the rear slider window.
>>
>>
>> If ya dont drive a truck with a rear slider -AND- rear exhaust, dont
>> bother replying to
>> this post. I need answers from people that own such a setup.
>
>
> Don't bother? LOL damn - I thought this list was for everyone :-P
>
> While I don't have a truck of that configuration - I have had trucks
> with exhaust that dumped under the truck (not by choice, rust seemed to
> have more a say in that than I did) and I can tell you that - perhaps
> you will get exhaust in with a straight back pipe - but I seriously
> doubt it will push more exhaust in than a side outlet. Exhaust in the
> cab is more effected by wind and speed than anything else. At motion -
> you will get very little, if any at all, exhaust in the truck just
> because you have airflow front to back. now if you are at idle a lot
> then yeah - different exhaust configrations will have an effect - but
> generally any time you have teh exhaust exit beyond the body of the
> truck - it will be minimal intrusion into the cab. One would think that
> having the exhaust exit at teh farthest point from the cab (the rear
> bumper) would diminish the intrusion - not increase it
>
>
>
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