posted 3 years ago
Greetings Paul and welcome to Permies!
Good question.
Anything downstream of the burn chamber will benefit from having a larger diameter exhaust path due to less friction of the exhaust gasses passing along the walls.
This has been the reason why many people have switched over to a bell or stratification chamber design where the gases are allowed to separate out on their own thereby almost entirely eliminating all friction and often lower exhaust temperatures too.
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