[Mgs] Mgs] Muffler info needed

[Frank Marrone]

Thanks Norm.  

 

Were your SuperTrapp and Peco systems  single muffler systems?  

 

I want to try to stuff as big of a muffler can as I can in the stock rear
location and try to get by with a single muffler.  I'm hoping to fit a 6"
round X 18" long muffler in the stock location.  Will that fit?  

 

Frank

 

 

From: Norm 2Bs [mailto:twobees at sprynet.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, December 21, 2010 1:38 PM
To: itswonderful at comcast.net; MG Digest
Subject: Mgs] Muffler info needed

 

Frank:

 

Having had 4 MGB's I think can help.

 

With '65 B, I tried eliminating the front muffler as it too often got caught
on my driveway.  N.G.  Too loud, even for the young buck I was at the time.

With the '80, stock system gave way to Abarth, smaller diameter than yours.
Not much different than stock in sound.

With the '66, I went from Abarth to SuperTrapp to Peco.

    SuperTrapp did a good job of silencing, and you can get a variety of
inlet sizes.  Only problem was engineering the exhaust pipe route.  Not
easy.  Sound was different.  In fact I used to park in an underground garage
& one day got out of the B while it was running.  At idle it sounded like a
small-block Chevy V-8.  Remove the baffles & it roared.

    Peco was just a big muffler in the position of the usual rear one.  It
had a rumble, but wasn't annoyingly loud on the highway.  For racing, I just
removed the muffler & installed a straight pipe.  Easy to do at the track.

 

Norm

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