Performance Exhaust Upgrades
Performance Exhaust Upgrades
The idea in upgrading your exhaust to increase performance is to increase your exhaust diameter as the amount of exhaust your engine creates increases. This is going to reduce restriction and allow more flow, creating more horse power as the engine doesn't have to work against itself getting rid of burnt gasses.
If your exhaust is too narrow, you won't be able to pump out enough exhaust fumes, and you'll have too much back-pressure. Your car’s exhaust is comprised of several parts. Starting at the engine, there’s the exhaust manifold—or headers, if you’ve swapped them in—the downpipe, the resonator, the catalytic converter, and the muffler. But typically, the term 'performance exhaust' refers to the section that contains the 'cat' and the muffler.
The best performance exhausts are designed not just to reduce back-pressure, but create partial vacuums. So not only are the exhaust gases flowing more quickly, they’re actually being sucked, or ‘scavenged,’ out. Now the combustion chamber has more oxygen, which means the engine makes more power.
Sound
Sound can be one of the biggest pulls for many buying a performance exhaust upgrade. Most exhaust manufacturers will have a consistent quality to their sound, and they'll manufacture them in a specific way, with or without resonators or silencers (which will cut out certain frequencies of sound).
Brands for performance exhaust upgrades
ID Workz stock a wide range of performance exhaust upgrades, from the following brands:
Blitz
Blitz are a Japanese manufacturer of aftermarket performance car parts, globally recognised as one of the leading tuning companies on the market. Their attention to detail and outstanding level of workmanship gives customers the opportunity to upgrade parts that look great but perform even better.
Scorpion Exhausts
Scorpion are dedicated to the design and manufacture of superb quality, hand crafted performance exhausts. Offering significant gains in both reliability and performance, Scorpion exhausts are widely regarded as the best exhausts available on today’s market. Scorpion exhausts are designed with the driving experience firmly in mind and by choosing one of these products for your vehicle, you’ll know that it has been created with expertise and passion. Hand crafted and made from the highest quality materials, Scorpion exhausts are designed and built to last.
HKS
HKS is one of the world’s leading manufacturers and suppliers of premium performance and motor sport products for the performance and automotive markets. Since the company was founded over 45 years ago, HKS have gone from strength to strength and now offers a range of products designed to meet the challenges of road racing, rallying and drag racing. Synonymous with performance, HKS products are widely appreciated and enjoyed by the automotive aftermarket industry.
Milltek
Milltek Sport is a leading performance exhaust manufacturer with a worldwide reputation for the exceptional quality of their products. Milltek are based in the UK and have a state-of-the-art development and testing centre in Germany, from which they develop and test their extensive range of exhaust systems.