How to tell if exhaust pipe is wet or dry?
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ATS_Aaron
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Basically yes. Although lots of people run water injection on dry pipes.
Aaron
Aaron
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- Granbury, TX
For most discussions on this board, a "dry pipe" is water jacketed and doesn't rely on water injected into the chamber to cool the pipe.
A "wet pipe" is not water jacketed and thus must rely on water injected into the chamber to cool the pipe.
A "wet pipe" is not water jacketed and thus must rely on water injected into the chamber to cool the pipe.
Big Kahuna
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Actually, yes and no. A dry pipe is just that. Dry, it does not use any water to help "Tune" the pipe. A wet pipe uses water injected into it at different locations to help tune the pipe. But some water has to be injected to keep it from overheating. The waterjacket on the dry pipe is just there to keep the pipe from running too hot. Yes, it can effect the tuning some. On of the tricks (legal) I did on my SXR was to really cool down the pipe to keep the air temps cooler in the engine bay. With a Dry Pipe, this may come into play some with the waterjacket.
SUPERTUNE
Race Gas Rules
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- Clearwater Fl.
All has to do with how much horsepower you want to make and where in the powerband it comes on.
You set the entire engine and pump package around what exhaust system you want to run.
In racing, as the dry pipes developed more technology and mass production the more they were used for racing.
Dry pipes did offer the engine to run at higher RPM's and this made them popular for racing to gain top speeds.
The disadvantage was they are heavier and some designs were prone to cracking and when that happens you loss a big percentage of the horsepower by water getting in the chamber. Dry pipes generally cost more as they are more expensive to build compared to wet pipes.
Wet pipes can give you more advantage if you have a variable water tuning.
Then you can tune the pipe to suit the engine setup, as well as being a lighter system overall.
Most of the time a wet pipe system is less likely to fail, and most of the time is less expensive to purchase.
But in a lot of cases can not make as much peak horsepower as the dry pipe.
You set the entire engine and pump package around what exhaust system you want to run.
In racing, as the dry pipes developed more technology and mass production the more they were used for racing.
Dry pipes did offer the engine to run at higher RPM's and this made them popular for racing to gain top speeds.
The disadvantage was they are heavier and some designs were prone to cracking and when that happens you loss a big percentage of the horsepower by water getting in the chamber. Dry pipes generally cost more as they are more expensive to build compared to wet pipes.
Wet pipes can give you more advantage if you have a variable water tuning.
Then you can tune the pipe to suit the engine setup, as well as being a lighter system overall.
Most of the time a wet pipe system is less likely to fail, and most of the time is less expensive to purchase.
But in a lot of cases can not make as much peak horsepower as the dry pipe.