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The two pipes you see running alongside the bottom of the car are running into their own separate mufflers, the big black thing is just a cover to protect them and to aid in the aerodynamic smoothness of the underside of the car.

If you're referring to the fact that there are four tips and only two pipes running alongside the bottom of the car, note that this is standard. There is not a single car out there that has a dual tip muffler where each tip is fed by an individual pipe. The dual tips give the muffler a great sound and aid in the speedy expulsion of exhaust fumes from the muffler itself. Note that the M3 is a six cylinder engine, so to have a quad exhaust with four separate pipes would be impossible, as two sets of two cylinders would share headers and pipes, and the remaining two cylinders would get their own exhaust systems. This would create an unbalanced motor.

Hope that cleared things up a little...

: please tell me theres something i'm missing in this pic

: http://www.supraforums.com/mk4chicago/gallery/fahrwerk_1.jpg

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actually, i just crawled underneath the E46 M3... Ben @ UUC Motorwerks 20:43 4/23/2000 (3)
- WHO LET YOU DO THAT???!!! :-) eom Jonathan V. 02:05 4/24/2000 (1)
  - we got into the ny auto show early on sat... Ben @ UUC Motorwerks 05:40 4/24/2000 (0)
- ahh that makes sense.. so it bends all the way TJ 21:16 4/23/2000 (0)

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