cheapo exhaust*manifold ( Re: bad acceleration on '01 Civic )
 

| > what can be done to get some improvement in the pick up?

In 6-02 I saw a new Civic vtec 1.6 with very short * : a waste of vtec
( no way is torque / mpg esp @ high rpm maximised ).
www.turborick.com/gsxr1127/gasoline.html para 10.2(1) indicates
how bad a civic's * is. Many car makers ( incl Nissan in Sunny 130Y
, Hyundai in Sonata 2.4, Proton in Waja 1.8 ) save on *, because 99.9
% buyers have no chance to test drive on highways, or know /
experienced a difference between short & long branch *.
Honda fits only short branch ( 4 into 1 pipe ), cheap & heavy cast
iron * for its engines <2.2 litre
http://www.hondaautomotiveparts.com/...13sm40_d08.gif
, even a F22A's *'s twin pipes are short.
http://www.autozone.com/images/cds/g...3d800cf8b3.gif bottom
Results are [i] lower though adequate torque @ low rpm ( as during
buyers' test drives ), but very low ( <½ as much ) torque & mpg @
high ( >3000 ) rpm : inadequacy increases with rpm. [ii] on highway
when >3000 rpm is needed, user cannot change gear from neutral to
drive w-o a jerk ; crank shaft etc. cannot spin fast enough from idle to
>3000 rpm [iii] cooling is worse. This is why expensive cars have
long branch *. http://circletrack.com/techarticles/73598
My local-made 4-2-1 * [i] uses aluminised mild steel [ii] is 13 kg
< original * [iii] has longer twin pipes than a F22A's * [iv] twin
pipes' interiors' total cross section area is 60% > original * ( single
pipe )'s.

Many ways to chk engine's efficiency, e.g. chk compression.
http://www.autozone.com/servlet/UiBr...3d800cf3e5.jsp

cheapo exhaust*manifold ( Re: bad acceleration on '01 Civic )
 

| > what can be done to get some improvement in the pick up?

In 6-02 I saw a new Civic vtec 1.6 with very short * : a waste of vtec
( no way is torque / mpg esp @ high rpm maximised ).
www.turborick.com/gsxr1127/gasoline.html para 10.2(1) indicates
how bad a civic's * is. Many car makers ( incl Nissan in Sunny 130Y
, Hyundai in Sonata 2.4, Proton in Waja 1.8 ) save on *, because 99.9
% buyers have no chance to test drive on highways, or know /
experienced a difference between short & long branch *.
Honda fits only short branch ( 4 into 1 pipe ), cheap & heavy cast
iron * for its engines <2.2 litre
http://www.hondaautomotiveparts.com/...13sm40_d08.gif
, even a F22A's *'s twin pipes are short.
http://www.autozone.com/images/cds/g...3d800cf8b3.gif bottom
Results are [i] lower though adequate torque @ low rpm ( as during
buyers' test drives ), but very low ( <½ as much ) torque & mpg @
high ( >3000 ) rpm : inadequacy increases with rpm. [ii] on highway
when >3000 rpm is needed, user cannot change gear from neutral to
drive w-o a jerk ; crank shaft etc. cannot spin fast enough from idle to
>3000 rpm [iii] cooling is worse. This is why expensive cars have
long branch *. http://circletrack.com/techarticles/73598
My local-made 4-2-1 * [i] uses aluminised mild steel [ii] is 13 kg
< original * [iii] has longer twin pipes than a F22A's * [iv] twin
pipes' interiors' total cross section area is 60% > original * ( single
pipe )'s.

Many ways to chk engine's efficiency, e.g. chk compression.
http://www.autozone.com/servlet/UiBr...3d800cf3e5.jsp