Evening all,
Been watching this show called tunningmanias on men and motors and all this modification jargon is a little baffling for a div like me.
Was just wondering what these terms mean "de-cat pipe" and "backbox" at a bit of a guess is that the bit of the exhaust thats at the back hence the name ?
also whats this anti-roll bar ? and arbs ?
cheers
De-cat pipe is a pipe that bolts in instead of a catalytic convertor. On some cars, the cat is a significant restriction and without it the engine works better. The back box is the silencer box at the back of the car.
An anti-roll bar is part of the suspension, it helps stop the suspension just compressing at one side (causing roll) when you go round corners.
Therm (thm) : A commercial unit of heat energy. The therm is equal to 100 000 Btu. Because there have been several definitions of the Btu, there are two official definitions of the therm. In the U.S., the legal definition (made in 1968) is that the therm equals 105.4804 megajoules. The European Union's definition, made in 1979 using the more current IT Btu, is 105.5060 megajoules. Either way the therm is equal to about 25 200 (large) calories or about 29.3 kilowatt hours of electrical energy. One therm can also be provided by about 96.7 cubic feet of natural gas. The therm has sometimes been confused with the thermie (see below). The names of both units come from the Greek word for heat, therme.
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