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Speaker 1: do exhaust headers work to improve engine performance? Headers are

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Speaker 1: improve an engine's performance. The goal of headers is to

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Speaker 1: make it easier for the engine to push exhaust gases

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Speaker 1: way for an engine to lose power is through back pressure.

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Speaker 1: The exhaust valve opens at the beginning of the exhaust stroke,

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Speaker 1: power is wasted. In a normal engine. Once the exhaust

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Speaker 1: gases exit the cylinder, they end up in the exhaust manifold.

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Speaker 1: In a four cylinder engine, there are four cylinders using

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Speaker 1: that same manifold. From the manifold, the exhaust gases flow

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Speaker 1: into one pipe towards the catalytic converter and the muffler.

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Speaker 1: It turns out that the manifold can be an important

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Speaker 1: source of back pressure because exhaust gases from one cylinder

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Speaker 1: cylinder that uses that manifold. The idea behind an exhaust

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Speaker 1: header is to eliminate the manifolds back pressure. Instead of

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Speaker 1: cylinder gets its own exhaust pipe. These pipes come together

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Speaker 1: into a larger pipe called the collector. The individual pipes

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Speaker 1: same length as all the others. By making them the

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Speaker 1: same length, it guarantees that each cylinder's exhaust gases arrive

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Speaker 1: in the collector spaced out equally, so there's no back

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Speaker 1: pressure generated by cylinders sharing the collector. This causes the

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