New tailpipe regulations (exit holes and loopholes)

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Re: New tailpipe regulations (exit holes and loopholes)

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hollus wrote: Loophole proposal number two: The two wastegate tailpipes sit exactly over the (turbine) exhaust pipe, in contact with it and with each other, and they just so happen to extend a bit further backwards and bend somewhat upwards...
This I didn't get, what do you mean ?

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hollus
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Re: New tailpipe regulations (exit holes and loopholes)

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The idea was to obstruct the main exhaust as much as possible since all teams have converged to the minimum legal exhaust pipe diameter, suggesting that they would meke them even smaller if allowed.
The wastegate pipe could alternatively work as a wing for the exhaust plume.
The rules make it clear that something like this is forbidden, though. And it might have been a bad idea in the first place ;-)
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