The answer is: yes. The results: 6% gain or thereabouts with a fairly impressive amount of extra complexity. But it can be done.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/322390752_Continuou...

Way back when Jet Skis had 2-stroke engines, you could buy an aftermarket exhaust pipe with water injection in a couple key spots. This allowed the pipe to be dynamically tuned to different RPMs by changing the speed of sound within the pipe.

The stock pipe was tuned to a specific RPM, allowing the reflected exhaust pulse to return to the cylinder just as the port was closing and “slam the door” on the fresh air/fuel charge.

With variable water injection, you could have more than one optimal RPM.

(All this is from memory as I read the ads in Splash magazine.)

Many antennas do this (screwdriver antennas come to mind), so I’d expect some similar ability to do this with exhaust. The only issue I can think of is turbulence from the seams of segments that extend.