genebaby Abuser of Charvels Member 501 Member For: 20y 4m 13d Gender: Male Location: Canberra Posted 26/01/04 10:13 PM Share Posted 26/01/04 10:13 PM I know some of you Turbo guys remove your centre muffler and install a couple of hot dogs. What is the purpose of the hot dog? What are they and what do they do? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Falchoon I see red Member 5,758 Member For: 21y 4m 7d Location: nowhere in particular Posted 26/01/04 11:35 PM Share Posted 26/01/04 11:35 PM Hot dogs have less back pressure than regular muffler and in theory should say no. I've heard of immediate gains when first doing it and then several weeks/months later the Ford ECU seems to 'learn' that a mod has been done and overcompensates and actually reduces the power to less than stock. Not sure if this actually applies when you have a Hotdog or this is only when there is no muffler at all. I have actually only heard the latter. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hypnodoc It's All In Your Mind Gold Donating Members 2,198 Member For: 20y 5m 25d Gender: Male Location: Melbourne Posted 27/01/04 05:11 AM Share Posted 27/01/04 05:11 AM I know some of you Turbo guys remove your centre muffler and install a couple of hot dogs. What is the purpose of the hot dog? What are they and what do they do? Aaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhh! Not to an XR8, don't genebaby, just don't. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ms700 Moderating Team 10,170 Member For: 21y 2m 24d Gender: Male Location: Sydney Posted 27/01/04 05:24 AM Share Posted 27/01/04 05:24 AM The addition of hotdogs will also keep you legal.If you remove a muffler and put straight thru pipes on, the mod is defectable (I remember plonky saying this somewhere). However, if you put 1 or more hotdogs on in place of the factory muffler, it stays all nice and legal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DallasQLD Lifetime Members 1,197 Member For: 21y 4m 18d Gender: Male Location: Albany Creek QLD Posted 27/01/04 11:26 AM Share Posted 27/01/04 11:26 AM I thought hot dogs went out with toranas.....mmmmm hot dog................... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
genebaby Abuser of Charvels Member 501 Member For: 20y 4m 13d Gender: Male Location: Canberra Posted 27/01/04 11:33 AM Author Share Posted 27/01/04 11:33 AM Ok, I have been told a hot dog is like a resonator. The reason I was wondering is that I removed the rear muffler of my XR8 for a better not (which it got) and removing some back pressure can't hurt, can it?Well, I think it did and I discussed it with someone on the weekend who put his car on the dyno and knew he had lost power and fixed it with two hot dogs.It is getting done tomorrow. The other guys exhaust still sounded pretty cool and the original performance is back.What is it with these cars and their love of back pressure? Welcome to the future. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
richdave SLOJAM, Gone but not forgotten Lifetime Members 1,841 Member For: 21y 6m 13d Gender: Male Location: Outer east - Melbourne Posted 27/01/04 12:57 PM Share Posted 27/01/04 12:57 PM mmmmm hot dog................... I'm hungry Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Falchoon I see red Member 5,758 Member For: 21y 4m 7d Location: nowhere in particular Posted 27/01/04 11:00 PM Share Posted 27/01/04 11:00 PM What is it with these cars and their love of back pressure? Welcome to the future. Most cars need a certain amount of backpressure to enable optimum performance. Liken it to a garden hose vs a fire hose. If you connected up a 4" or so firehose to a garden tap there wouldn't be enough pressure to run it properly and the water would just dribble out the other end. By the same token if you connected a garden hose to a fire hydrant it would probably burst from the pressure. This would be like putting a 2" exhaust on a Top Fueller.Turbos usually like a big free flowing exhaust but Ford seem to have done their homework with the standard system and it flows quite well and most repuatable tuning houses like APS, Herrods etc reckon there is no gain to be made in changing the exhaust on stock XR6T. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CnC SportCompact.biz Member 328 Member For: 21y 1m 12d Location: Canberra Posted 28/01/04 12:54 AM Share Posted 28/01/04 12:54 AM I would assume they cook? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pym Member 332 Member For: 20y 9m 23d Location: Sydney, Australia Posted 28/01/04 04:11 AM Share Posted 28/01/04 04:11 AM And does it come with ketchup and onions Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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