Header collector size

This isnt about length it was diameter. Since the car came with a 2 1/2 collector ext, I was wondering if it could have been used for a tuning method, such as trying to slow car down a little to fit into class. It was done for a perpose since it had the evac lines attached. Just wondering if anyone has done something like this.

Maybe to get more vac out of the evac. smaller pipe, more velocity= more pan evacuation:dontknow::dontknow: