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Old 10-31-2004, 06:57 PM
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KITT holds the secret for true dual exhaust on a thirdgen

I found a video clip of KITT from knight rider doing some stunts and in one of the stunts they do "ski mode" where car gets up and 2 wheels. I noticed that the stunt car has what looks to be like real dual exhaust w/ an H pipe. There is no cat tho. Here is the screen capture:
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KITT needs a new detailer.

Of all the dual setups i"ve seen, Willie has the best one I've laid my eye's on. Its clean, its tucked up nice'n tight. I'll bet it sounds wicked too, but I've never heard it.
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Wow

Where did you find the videos?
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He probably has the first season DVD. Just pop it in your PC's DVD drive and then you can capture all the screenies you like.
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OK I'm confused. It kind of looks like the driver side pipe goes over the tranny x-member, but I would think that would be impossible.
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The passenger pipe follows essentially stock routing, the driver side pipe crosses over and goes between the frame rail and the transmission, above the crossmember.
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OK I'm confused. It kind of looks like the driver side pipe goes over the tranny x-member, but I would think that would be impossible.
a tight fit for sure, but not impossible.
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I don't see any mufflers either. Looks like it's just straight pipes to the back.
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Of all the dual setups i"ve seen, Willie has the best one I've laid my eye's on. Its clean, its tucked up nice'n tight. I'll bet it sounds wicked too, but I've never heard it.

Thanks! This should help:

http://www.iroc-zpostforum.com/MemberWillie.htm

That's at approximately half throttle without my supercharger installed.
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Originally posted by Apeiron
The passenger pipe follows essentially stock routing...
Except it goes under the rear axle instead of over it, apparently. Yikes!
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Except it goes under the rear axle instead of over it, apparently. Yikes!
Didn't see that at first. Nothing necessarily wrong with going under the axle I guess... might make sense for a stunt car that could have the limits of it's suspension travel tested from time to time.
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Didn't see that at first. Nothing necessarily wrong with going under the axle I guess... might make sense for a stunt car that could have the limits of it's suspension travel tested from time to time.
I hear that I managed to break my exhaust in half over the axle racing through the mountains here in california, now I want to make side exit exhaust.
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Originally posted by trans87
I don't see any mufflers either. Looks like it's just straight pipes to the back.
It has one, right after the axle.
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It looks like it has a single 2 in 2 out crossflow down there. Any chance you can get us a better screen capture?

Willie, do you have any pics of your setup, it sounds great in the video, is it really that deep in real life? Any resonance inside the car?
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Hmmm, looks like a Fram oil filter, too.....
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I dont think that is an exhaust pipe. Looks like some kind of larger torque arm. You can see the original driver's side pipe that runs under the oil pan. Why would that still be on there if it has true duals? That means they somehow had to run the driver's side pipe back across under the car somewhere.
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Looks like duals to me. Driver's side up in front of the pan to the passenger side, then back beside the transmission, over the crossmember, under the tailshaft back to the driver's side, and then beside the stock torque arm back to the muffler. With the passenger side pretty much staying stock w/o cat except going under the axle. All, apparently, so they could do an "H" pipe.
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screw the true duals how do i get "ski mode" in my camaro?
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Originally posted by super83Z
screw the true duals how do i get "ski mode" in my camaro?

im wondering the same thing LoL
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C'mon guys, the pipes run UNDER the rear axle, how much more hillbilly does it get? i am sure that exhaust drags and bangs over every bump and hole in the road. the H-pipe idea is OK but the rest of the exhaust is totally retarded.
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Somehow I thought a 21st century computerized talking car would look a little more high tech underneath.
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Originally posted by Fastmax
Somehow I thought a 21st century computerized talking car would look a little more high tech underneath.
Sowwy its not real lol
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Hey if anyone is interested. The Knight Rider episode that shot comes from is called "Slammin Sammy's Stuntshow Spectacular".

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