Sometime I see one, sometime two. How are they arranged from the motor?
2006-08-29 03:49:20 · 12 answers · asked by forby_mm 2 in Cars & Transportation ➔ Motorcycles
-Each cylinder needs an exhaust pipe.
-Bikes with more then one cylinder, sometimes merge into one pipe, then out one muffler.
-Some 4 cylinder engines will merge the 2 left cylinders into one pipe and out one muffler & the 2 right cylinders will merge into one pipe and out another muffler. It makes the rear of the bike look more balanced with a muffler on each side.
-A 6 cylinder bike like a Honda Goldwing, has 3 cylinders pointing to the left and 3 pointing to the right. Each bank of 3 cylinders have 3 exhaust pipes that merge into one pipe and out one muffler.
-It would be a little cumbersome to have 6 mufflers.
-It would be impractible to merge 6 pipes into one.
2006-08-29 04:15:10 · answer #1 · answered by guardrailjim 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
One exhaust line from each cylinder. After that any artistic or acoustic or maybe HP modifying arrangement can be applied.
Look at a car engine. Is an Exhaust Manifold that goes into a single pipe that become the exhaust pipe. Same on a motorcyle, one pipe for each cylinder.
On the old KZ1000, 4cyl, each pipe went into a Manifold then became one pipe to rear.
Some changed this and made it 2 pipes that spilt each side of bike. looked cool, and helped HP.
A V-Twin is usually ran into a single side arrangement, 2 pipes, join at Y then run back on side opposite the Drive Chain.
2006-08-29 04:04:47 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ive seen 8 once 6 a few times 4 3 2 1,many times
2006-08-29 05:31:31 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
You could have a two-cylinder engine and the pipes off each exhaust port could merge into one single pipe. Just depends on the bike. I've seen two-cylinders with two pipes off the back of the bike, and I've seen two-cylinder bikes with one single pipe.
2006-08-29 03:57:38 · answer #4 · answered by Cambion Chadeauwaulker 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
1 split into 2, with a h pipe
2006-08-29 03:53:14 · answer #5 · answered by kag6667 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
One for each cylinder as each cylinder exhausts spent gases. These pipes are usually combined into one or two big pipes....
2006-08-29 03:55:15 · answer #6 · answered by slice39 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sometimes one per cylinder, sometimes one for the whole engine, or anything in between.
2006-08-29 04:28:45 · answer #7 · answered by Bostonian In MO 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have a Ducati... L-Twin motor (two cylinders), two exhaust headers, two exhuast canisters (mufflers)
2006-08-29 04:02:41 · answer #8 · answered by Micah 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the one my friend has has 4 pipes and he has a honda. i think that it depends on the bike
2006-08-29 03:54:26 · answer #9 · answered by kathy froggylady40 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Usually one per cylinder.
2006-08-29 03:52:20 · answer #10 · answered by Jet 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋