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Why does the 2019 Honda Civic Type R exhaust have three pipes?

A friend of mine asked me this past weekend why my 2019 Honda Civic Type R’s exhaust has three pipes, and why the middle one is smaller than the other two. I hate to admit this, but I never even wondered that myself. So now I really want to know. Why is the 2019 Honda Civic Type R exhaust designed this way?

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Matt Terzi · Updated on
Reviewed by Shannon Martin, Licensed Insurance Agent.
First, we’d like to applaud your taste in cars and say we dig your
Honda Civic Type R
. Also, it’s no biggy that you didn’t know why your car has three exhaust pipes. It’s a weird feature!
A lot of people see the Honda Civic Type R’s exhaust and immediately assume it’s just for looks. After all, there’s just one exhaust coming out of the engine up front, right? But this is actually a shockingly simple and impressively clever feature cooked up by Honda’s engineers.
The two bigger exhaust tips are on the business end of straight flow mufflers, while the smaller one in the middle exits a resonator. This system is what makes your Civic Type R sound glorious from one end of the tach to the other, without being obnoxiously loud and uncomfortable at highway speeds.
Honda’s clever designs allow your 2019 Honda Civic Type R’s exhaust to sound fun when you need it to sound fun, while the car itself can still be used for the daily commute and longer car trips without the relentlessly annoying drone so many sports cars suffer from.
The 2019 Honda Civic Type R exhaust system is impressive, and saves you money on the costly repairs you’d endure with a more advanced—and more expensive—exhaust.
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