Here in the UK a loud vehicle exhaust sound in the street is generally seen
as a bad sign. It conjures up images of forever being stopped by the
Police, of potentially dangerous youth involvement (ie drugs, muggings,
thefts etc), of being a flash boy racer or fast uncontrolled driving. It is
always a source of amusement to read posts where having a loud exhaust note
is a requisite. Seeing some of the exhaust tail pipes that are larger than
the engine cylinder bore is also an amusing sight provided by 'yoof' who
cruise around in rather loud Jap cars. Bling rules in the street parade!
Please do not get me wrong, the sound of a well tuned exhaust note is
wonderful and despite living across town and 4 miles away from what was my
nearest car tuning centre I could still hear when they had a 'good' motor on
the rolling road. This was normally a single seat racecar on the third set
of rollers (Harry's set)that read up to 600bhp and if doing nothing else I'd
pop down there to see what it was.
A loud exhaust note does not equate to the best power output and my
recommendation would be to thoroughly research exhaust tuning, especially
tuned length savaging systems for LBCs.
Guy R Day
----- Original Message -----
From: "I Erbs" <eyera3@gmail.com>
To: <Awgertoo@aol.com>
Cc: <healeys@autox.team.net>
Sent: Wednesday, December 30, 2009 8:24 AM
Subject: Re: [Healeys] Muffler for Healey 100
> You have it wrong. I removed the stereo to enjoy the engine music from the
> tail pipe :)
>
> On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 10:24 PM, <Awgertoo@aol.com> wrote:
>
>> I am obviously getting old--the exhaust on my 100 Lemans is just too
>> loud,
>> something I thought I would never say!
>>
>> I just got through installing a new Jensen MSR2007 AM/FM radio complete
>> with Sirius Radio receiver and Ipod input. It has adequate power--15
>> watts per channel and 4 good speakers yet I simply cannot enjoy the
>> music over the exhaust unless I turn the volume WAY up, and even still
>> the exhaust is still very obtrusive.
>>
>> I have the Denis Welch tubular header/exhaust system which is 2" in
>> diameter and wonder if anyone knows of a good muffler which will mate up
>> to a 2"
>> exhaust pipe. I am willing to sacrifice a little performance for being
>> able to hear the music! The exhaust system has been on the car since
>> about
>> 2002 so perhaps it has deteriorated slowly over the years. It also has
>> its share of scrapes, etc. along the bottom so I don't feel it owes me
>> much.
>>
>> Any recommendations appreciated.
>>
>> Best--Michael Oritt
>> _______________________________________________
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