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Subject: [Fot] TR3 exhaust...revisited...
From: duncan.charlton54 at gmail.com (Duncan Charlton)
Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2018 06:51:30 -0500
References: <1630892018d-c89-d54a@webjas-vaa011.srv.aolmail.net> <20180428041712.1926D258955B@autox.team.net> <BLUPR0601MB15373E3BFE57D2222C8213D3A88C0@BLUPR0601MB1537.namprd06.prod.outlook.com>
I?ve been using a pair of Smithy?s round can mufflers on my Morgan Plus 8 
(engine size now 1/2 liter larger than the original Rover 3.5 liter V8) since 
2006 and like the sound.  They?re impressively loud when I floor it but at 
cruise speed I hear mostly wind noise, not a blatting exhaust so it?s quite 
tolerable for long trips (and my ears are offended by exhaust drone on long 
runs).  This may have a lot to do with the light load imposed on the engine and 
I?m not sure how a 4-cylinder engine doing the same amount of work would sound.

Duncan 
(Texas)

> On Apr 28, 2018, at 12:21 AM, Jack Brooks via Fot <fot at autox.team.net> 
> wrote:
> 
> From my research last year, the Smitty's were very much like the Brockmas 
> Mellowtones I bought last year.  As I mentioned in my previous earlier today 
> they sounds great and are still available.
> 
> Jack
> 
> From: Dennis DeLap via Fot
> Sent: Friday, April 27, 9:17 PM
> Subject: Re: [Fot] TR3 exhaust...revisited...
> To: Bill Dentinger, fot at autox.team.net
> 
> 
> Bill - your "smitty" muffler story made my day.  I have a Smitty on my Mini, 
> my TR4, and I had one on my P1800. I love those mufflers - and you can still 
> get them. The stamping in the muffler is actually 'Smithy'. They aren't 
> really that loud - just sound good.
> Thanks Bill
> Sent: ?4/?27/?2018 8:03 PM
> Subject: [Fot] TR3 exhaust...revisited...
> 
> Amici...
> 
> This is a Long Story for the FOT, but directed mostly at old farts who were 
> actually around in the mid-20th century.  These are people who might actually 
> understand how the 'Smitty Flow Through' glasspac attempted to provide proof 
> to the local police that your car actually had a muffler back in the day.  
> "See, officer.  There it is.  That's my muffler."  Newbees, who can't relate, 
> might want to hit their Delete Key now.
> 
> Back in 1957, when I was a senior in High School, my paternal Grandmother 
> (God Rest Her Soul), who was also my God-mother, had given me $350 as a 
> graduation present.  $350 was the most money that I knew existed back then.  
> I did not know that my Grandmother had $350, much less that she might 
> consider giving it to me.  And it was a good five months before I was 
> scheduled to graduate.  Talk about opportunity based on an Act of Faith.  
> Anyway, I took the money and I bought a very,very used, but very nice looking 
>  1951 Ford convertible.  It was powder blue, and had an extended rear deck 
> and continental tire kit.  I shaved the front deck, added eye lids to the 
> headlights, and blue dot lenses (illegal) to the tail lights.  I added fender 
> skirts and I replaced the rag top's rear window (several times).  I also 
> lowered the rear end about two inches (to a point where that extended rear 
> deck would drag on driveway ramps).  Out on the West Coast they were lowering 
> the front ends.  Here in the Midwest...we were lowering the rear ends.  But 
> that car looked GOOD!  It looked like a Classic Lead Sled.  It was fantastic, 
> and in my pre-Triumph, Bebopper days, duck-tailed Hollywood haircut...the 
> whole nine yards.  This is the car I used to court Shirley Jean.  Her long 
> pony tail used to flop in the breeze as we tooled down the street with the 
> top down.  
> 
> That's all the Good News about that car.  There is some  Bad News too.  This 
> car had a Ford six cylinder engine and Fordamatic.  It was so slow, that 
> Roger Bannister broke the four minute mile before it did.  And it only broke 
> the four minute mile once, going down a steep hill.  But that wimpy drive 
> train probably saved me millions in exposure to speeding tickets, etc.  
> Another issue was the fact that the car used more oil than gasoline.  Talk 
> about 'blow-by', the engine was shot...and made pretty blue smoke.  How did I 
> deal with that wimpy drive train on such a great looking car?  Well, I always 
> was more into Presentation than Performance, and what I did was add 'fake 
> headers' to mimic a duel exhaust system.  They looked great coming out of 
> that extended rear deck.  I also installed a 'Smitty Glass Pack', and BINGO!  
> The car sounded like a screamer.  I'd hold the car in low gear, working the 
> transmission against the engine cruising down even a slight incline...and 
> that car sounded like it was capable of 200-210 mph.  I had lots of offers 
> for a drag race, but always was careful to say, "No thank you...I need to 
> save these rear tires...".
> 
> Sad to say, I do not even have a picture of that car.  I do not know what 
> happened to it.  When I graduated from High School in 1957, young men still 
> had an eight year military obligation, which I decided to address.  I joined 
> the Navy two months after graduating.  I was gone for four years (Plankowner, 
> USS SPRINGFIELD CLG-7).  Shirley Jean waited.  The car didn't.  I suspect my 
> brother Ron ended up with it, and it probably died.
> 
> Pity, but make a note that the 'Smitty Glass Pack' is a hero in this 
> story...it helped make me and that car appear to be more than we 
> deserved...and I still got Shirley Jean.
> 
> Bill Dentinger   
> 
>  
> 
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