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🌧️ A roof drainpipe 🚗 A car exhaust pipe
downpipe

downpipe

6.6
A pipe in a car's exhaust that directs engine gases toward the rest of the system
  • noun
  • Specialized
translation icon : tubo de escape
  • Steeda then added an in-house cold air intake, a high-flow turbo downpipe, and a cat-back exhaust system to improve the power output of the 2.0L EcoBoost engine.

Examples

  • The mechanic replaced the old downpipe to ensure better exhaust flow in the car's performance.

  • The car is an '08 WRX with 61k miles, Cobb downpipe, Magnaflow exhaust, and a recently rebuilt VF52 turbo.

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  • After installing a new downpipe, the vehicle's engine sounded much more powerful during acceleration.

  • Upgrading the downpipe improved the efficiency of the exhaust system, reducing back pressure significantly.

Synonyms

exhaust pipe
vsdownpipe
  • Specialized
4 3.2

A pipe that carries gas from the engine out the back of a car

directs gases from manifold or turbocharger toward the catalytic converter

Surface Forms

downpipe singular
downpipes plural

Morphology

downpipe = pipe (transparent) = down + pipe

Compound 'down' + 'pipe' denotes a pipe directing exhaust gases downward, a direct compositional meaning. [Postprocessing: moved 'down' from base_words to prefix]

Etymology

In cars, downpipe uses the same parts: down 'away from the engine' and pipe 'a tube', so it is the tube that guides exhaust gases down from the engine toward the rest of the exhaust system.