what gauge size for downpipe so it can absorb alot of heat and yet still be lite thnaks
WTF :shrug:
Where have you been reading where they told you the function of the downpipe was to absorb heat. Man, get off the crack rock.
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Also…spell ‘lite’ correctly…it’s LIGHT
Lol this post made my day.
i’ve got a 12-gauge and a 20-gauge. the 12 seems to work better for pheasant, while i tend to use the 20 for smaller game birds.
Well, you do want it to be able to stand up to the heat so it doesn’t crack.
xenocron
so what you have a muffler shop downpipe on your car cuz u dont care what kind of metal you use. if it is heat abosorbant the exhaust gas will flow faster thats why people powder coat their down pipe or anything to absorb heat faster flow, its just a simple question you make it to difficult
hey genius, you need to read more.
people don’t get stuff coated so that it absorbs heat, they get it coated so the heat stays inside it. that way you don’t have excessive heat sinking into the engine bay, and into the post-IC air intakes. :tsk:
For your information GENIUS, I have a Rev Hard down pipe…mandrel bent.
If you have problem with your downpipe cracking because of excessive heat, your damn manifold will be glowing bright RED and shit will melt under the hood before that ever happens.
I wasn’t trying to be difficult my fellow G2er…but as you can see from the rest of the posts in your thread, your logic and understanding about the function of a down pipe is SERIOUSLY flawed.
Like maybe I should put 3 catalytic convertors in my exhaust to absorb all the heat?
hey yeah maybe you should :idea:
uhmmm way off-- anyway to be exact the process is Thermo coating, not powder coating and I just had mine done in Escondido, about an hour from LA.thermo coating. there is no special size gauge downpipe material. go ask a performace shop that to see what they say?
well its something like that it might not be called what i said but its like when u paint an exhaust piping with high heat temperature the gas it is supposto flow better and faster
and that has nothing to do with the downpipe absorbing heat. :down:
sounds like you need to do some more research.
you need to go back and read the G2ic turbo guide because your way off. who are you learning this stuff from? because they don’t have any sense.
another thing, check your spelling, it’s very irritable trying to figure out what your trying to say.
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your way off.
your trying to say.
hehehehehe i couldn’t resist. 
love me.
WTF…you have no idea what your talking about man, stop trying to talk shit to people who obviously know what they are talking about. the only way your exhaust is going to flow faster is by using a larger diameter downpipe and exhaust with mandrel bends.
BTW dumbass, xenocron has one of the cleanest “muffler shop” exhausts I have seen, and who says that because its made at a shop its going to be made with “bad metal” 
your a real piece of work.
…said the pink-haired freak.
ya you don’t want to absorb heat, you want to retain heat to help speed up gas velocity. the more metal there is, the more it will absorb heat. ideally you want thin wall tubing for best performance, however strength becomes an issue so you must find the best tradeoff.
confusing yes, and fyi the air helps to insulate the heat, however you really don’t want fresh, cool air coming in to disturb it either.
in the g2ic turbo guide it says to go with a 16 gauge for the downpipe so i guess i will just do that. but what do u think a 3inch downpipe pipe or a 2.5 inch down pipe i was thinking with a 2.5 or just go with a 3 for the downpipe because of the turns and then make it go into a 2.5 after the downpipe
a 2.5 will be large enough for a small/mid size turbo, anything larger and your going to start losing torque, which we all know honda’s lack anyways.
you would want to go from 2.5 to 3, not 3 to 2.5. small to big, not big to small. 2.5 straight, 2.5 to 3, or 3 straight.
i have never heard of a turbo exhaust losing torque when going larger. “the best exhaust for a turbo is no exhaust”. if you can show me otherwise, namely dynos…