And as long as your at it, get some insulating material to wrap it in.. You
want the exhaust to stay hot all the way to the back (or side as it may
well be) of the car. It's no good to have it cooling and changing density
in the pipe, right?
Jake
At 09:26 AM 8/28/2002 -0700, Michael R. Clements wrote:
>That would be cool but I was suggesting something a bit more
>conventional.
>
>Why waste your money on an aftermarket exhaust system? Just get a custom
>bent 60mm stright pipe of aluminized steel from the cats on back. No
>mufflers. It will be cheaper than ANY aftermarket muffler you can find,
>provide more power, will not affect emissions so you're still smog-safe,
>and your car will not be too loud. And if you want it to look cool, you
>can have them weld a chromed tip on the end.
>
>This wouldn't work for non-turbo cars, but since your car is a turbo you
>might as well enjoy the advantages.
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-ba-autox@autox.team.net
> > [mailto:owner-ba-autox@autox.team.net] On Behalf Of Joe Ciarcia
> > Sent: Wednesday, August 28, 2002 09:12
> > To: ba-autox@autox.team.net
> > Subject: RE: Anyone doing STX for the slush series?
> >
> >
> > Yeah yeah yeah... that's the ticket!!! STREET MOD (I
> > assume by straight pipe you mean from the headers back
> > deleting all cats)!!! Let's see... there's lots of fun
> > I could have with mods in that class but the most
> > amusing one is the electro magnetic pulse generator
> > I'm designing that specifically targets 1996 BWM M3's
> > (evil laughter).
> >
> > Joe
> >
> > --- "Michael R. Clements" <mrclem@telocity.com> wrote:
> > > Joe,
> > >
> > > The Borla may be better than stock, but why not go
> > > "all the way"? You
> > > should consider any muffler to be "extra weight,
> > > unnecessary
> > > backpressure" on your turbocharged car. The turbos
> > > themselves will do
> > > all the sound "muffling" you need. I see a 60mm
> > > straight pipe exhaust in
> > > your near future.
> >
> > =====
> > Silly little Yahoo advert follows...
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