Here's a question, go figure right.lol

[mcammarn]

I was driving and all the sudden I was listening to the sound of my exhaust.
I can hear a exhaust leak. I was thinking of dumped down pipes, the ones that vent to atmosphere.
The question is would a exhaust leak be considered a dumped dp?lol because isn't that all those are, a big hole that dumps air out.
I'm guessing this is a stupid question, but I was just thinking about it.

 

[supraguy@aol]

I think of a 'dump' as the wastegate exit. if that gas doesn't return to the exhaust(aka- dumped), that's less turbulence and backpressure in the piping.
Any hole in the exhaust post wastegate is just a reduction of gas in the entire exhaust. Is it a performance increase? Prolly not.

 

[hvyman]

WASTEGATE bypasses air away from the turbo to control the amount of boost.

Exhaust leak is a noisy smelly hole in your exhaust system.

Wastegate only has exhaust gases moving through it when you reach full boost. Other wise the gate is closed and nothing comes out.