Why do some of our stock exhaust pipes appear to hang down?

[ricamryman]

Yesterday, while at a Red Light, a 1993-94 Camry XLE V6 was in front of me, & it had appeared that the middle section of the exhaust pipe before the muffler hangs low. I see this on many of our cars. I looked at mine from the rear & it does not hang as low as others I have seen.....What gives?.....

[AlaricD]

Originally Posted by ricamryman

Yesterday, while at a Red Light, a 1993-94 Camry XLE V6 was in front of me, & it had appeared that the middle section of the exhaust pipe before the muffler hangs low. I see this on many of our cars. I looked at mine from the rear & it does not hang as low as others I have seen.....What gives?.....

Genetics? (Couldn't resist)

It may be so that condensation will build up in that lower segment rather than in the muffler, as the muffler walls may be thinner than the exhaust pipe itself (on the other hand, the muffler is intended to be the replaceable item, and the pipe is supposed to be more permanent. Pipe, though, is considerably cheaper than a muffler).

[rusty9]

most aftermarket pre-bent pipes have that kink near the end...i think its meant to clear the trailing arms but its usually bent too much and looks droopy

[Kenny_McCormic]

Its simply the lowest part of the car, they all look like that. Mine does too, short of not having a muffler and the pipe just kinda dumps under the trunk.

[JohnGD]

Toyota shared too many parts across models? Looks ugly IMO.

Originally Posted by ricamryman

Yesterday, while at a Red Light, a 1993-94 Camry XLE V6 was in front of me, & it had appeared that the middle section of the exhaust pipe before the muffler hangs low. I see this on many of our cars. I looked at mine from the rear & it does not hang as low as others I have seen.....What gives?.....

[projektvertx]

Yeah, I've noticed that on my car as well as V6 Camry's from 92-01. If you look at the Avalon, it does not have this "droopiness" as you called it. At first, I figured it was for cooling the exhaust pipe itself, but when I compared my car to my mom's 98 avy, that was thrown out the window. My explanation is that toyota crosses over parts a lot. And they wanted to make a "one size fits all" exhaust pipe for the Avalon, ES300 and V6 Camry's (because they all share the same engine no?).

[ricamryman]

Originally Posted by JohnGD

Toyota shared too many parts across models? Looks ugly IMO.

I agree!..........

[Camry98racer]

But you have to look at it in a different way.......Toyota had the exhaust tuned for that engine, so to save us cost they used the same exhaust design. If not they would have had to tune the exhaust for the different modle, maybe adding to cost.

[projektvertx]

^ I guess you do have a point

[uibalnme]

It's all due to the design of the rear cross member, and the proximity of the fuel tank to that area. They couldn't get the pipe to go over the rear suspension, so they just went under it.