Exhaust expansion chamber for 4 stroke?

Frank/G.speed fmlin at ccnet3.ccnet.com
Sat Mar 15 08:04:18 GMT 1997


A while ago Todd posted the Cylinder Head Tech article from 
Motorcyclist June 1996, one paragraph was:

"	Plain pipe ends do a poor job of returning the energy of an
emerging sound wave, which is why horns have flared open end-to
get better energy recovery and thus amplitude.  Megaphones, the
exhaust pipe horns known in engineering as diffusers, are vastly
more efficient in this regard.  Racing two-stroke engines
expansion chamber exhaust systems have elaborate blow-down
diffusers, because of their heavy reliance on this
vacuum-cleaner effect to pull air through the transfer ports."

Are there any problems with expansion chamber exhaust?!  Such
as narrow power band?  Why isn't it used on 4 stroke engines?

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