With the rotary turn-pipe application, the car went from
being gawdawfully obnoxiously loud anywhere near the
car, to being gawdawfully obnoxiously loud anywhere
near the left side of the car only. On the right side, you
could then almost shout loud enough to be heard. =-)
Jon
(Huh? Speak up please, I've been around uncorked Wankels!)
On Thu, 23 Sep 1999 09:27:31 -0700 Scott Meyers <solo2@uswest.net>
writes:
>
>You know, now that you mention it, the 90' bend does do a lot on the
>obnoxious meter.
>
>I had a DSP Bugeye with 1275 and headers that ran straight back to the
>rear axle, then through a new "Cherry Bomb" muffler, and was advised
>by
>others at the next event thaqt my car was obnoxiously loud. I had
>noticed that while driving sanely through my neighborhood that it set
>off car alarms :-)
>
>So......I purchased from Checker a standard 90' bend and attached to
>the
>end of the muffler, and all complaints went away. The car was
>significantly quieter, and no slower.
>
>I'm no sound engineer, but I'll bet it had something to do with
>breaking
>up the straight path of the sound wave.
>
>S Meyers
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