Pipe Music

DynoMax is one exhaust manufacturer who delivers the entire equation for off-road enthusiasts - a whole exhaust system from the ports to the tail pipe, or just a cat-back system (from the catalytic converter back, hence the name), that both boosts performance and quiets the ride.

DynoMax performance exhaust systems were introduced at the Specialty Equipment Marketing Association (SEMA) Show in 1986. The company basically sprang fully formed from the forehead of Zeus, or the automotive accessory equivalent - Tenneco Inc., also the owner of Rancho Suspension, Walker Exhaust and other divisions. The company's manufacturing and distribution center is

located in Harrisburg, Virginia, with its engineering wizards housed in Jackson, Michigan near Detroit. So, those are the corporate basics, now to the guts of the matter - the pursuit of combustion efficiency.

We're all familiar with the job of a performance exhaust - get the spent fuel/air mixture out of the combustion chamber as efficiently as possible in order to make room for a fresh fuel and air mixture. Think of the exhaust as working hand-in-hand with the intake system - the engine's exhaler compared to its inhaler. The engineering focus is on efficiency, with no wasted motion, allowing every element of an engine to work at its peak, resulting in dyno-measured maximum horsepower

and torque (just like the name DynoMax implies).

However, automotive systems are designed for a broad range of applications (that dreaded average driver). Those of us who put these homogenized systems through rigorous conditions know first hand about such built-in vehicular inefficiencies. But the aftermarket isn't burdened with "average." In fact, its focus is quite the opposite. Companies like DynoMax strive to satisfy the non-ordinary wishes of performance enthusiasts.