on the left side (driver's side). They were never used on the right side as they weren't needed there. The left exhaust manifold on the engine lost its cooling passage when the crew cooling system was in use, resulting in overheating on the left side of the engine. The two extra pipes restored the cooling to the left manifold. The system was redesigned for the ausf G, and the two pipes weren't needed. The ausf Ds didn't have the crew heating system installed so they didn't need the esxtra pipes either. Early Jagdpanthers had the engine compartment layout of the Panther ausf A, so with the crew heating system, they would have needed the extra two pipes on the left exhaust stack assembly. This does not mean that a few derelict captured Panthers used for technical evaluation could not have been reassembled incorrectly at some point with the extra piping on the right, but this was not the correct configuration for the Panther ausf A or early Jagdpanther. All this information is in Tom Jentz and Hilary Doyle's PanzerTracts.
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