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Subaru Performance Exhaust

by Andrew Kozlov

An advanced Subaru performance exhaust system can improve your fuel efficiency, reduce your vehicle's emissions, and generally improve the drivability of your car. Moreover, when you upgrade to an aluminum metal muffler, you protect your engine and exhaust system against environmental degradation. Indeed, studies suggest that drivers who install top end Subaru exhaust systems tend to make up their investments in fuel efficiency and repair costs.

There are also environmental reasons why you should improve your emissions system. Climate data now suggest that passenger motor vehicles contribute significantly to global warming and air pollution. Particularly in large metropolitan areas, high emission vehicles emit a significant percentage of the pollutants that eventually constitute smog and debris.

Better Protection with Advanced Subaru Exhaust Systems

How do performance exhaust emissions systems work? First of all, they filter the air / spent fuel admixture that's expelled from the main engine chamber to remove large particulate matter. Advanced exhaust systems go even further, leaching out certain toxic gases and filtering out refined particulate matter. Of course, no muffler and exhaust system is perfect--unless you drive a hydrogen car, your engine will emit some toxic compounds.

In addition to helping you protect the environment, an advanced exhaust system will suck air out of the main engine chamber faster then a stock exhaust system will. This improved airflow prevents the air / fuel admixture inside the engine from being rehashed multiple times by the camshafts. The reason this is important is that many of the worst pollutants form only after the air in your engine gets subjected to multiple ignitions.


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