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curvesrgood · 03-23-2008, 12:42 PM

Well that was the other thing I was going to mention... we are talking about butt dyno here which has no bearing whatsoever on reality. I was talking about the fellow who had posted earlier (just above my post with the video) who was running a glasspack setup (oldschool musclecar deal generally that more or less amplifies sound and creates no backpressure) and some guy above in this same thread had talked about removing that setup that someone had put on his and going back to a stock exhaust and his car ran smoother/better (I noted he didn't say faster though). I was just curious why swapping from something super high-flow (said glasspack for example) back to stock would cause a noted improvement in the power curve unless the computer was confused or something like that when the other muffler was on. (also I'm 90% more sober and 60% less confused than I was when I posted yesterday).

Oh, and E T Haggis: My S/C seems happy with a borderline straight pipe (have a massive exhaust leak at the flex pipe I haven't fixed yet and have been enjoying frightening other drivers and small children with how rediculous the car sounds right now).

03-23-2008, 12:42 PM	#34 (permalink)
curvesrgood three mk1's Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: NC Posts: 499 Thanks: 8 Thanked 33 Times in 28 Posts iTrader Rating: (1/100% )	Well that was the other thing I was going to mention... we are talking about butt dyno here which has no bearing whatsoever on reality. I was talking about the fellow who had posted earlier (just above my post with the video) who was running a glasspack setup (oldschool musclecar deal generally that more or less amplifies sound and creates no backpressure) and some guy above in this same thread had talked about removing that setup that someone had put on his and going back to a stock exhaust and his car ran smoother/better (I noted he didn't say faster though). I was just curious why swapping from something super high-flow (said glasspack for example) back to stock would cause a noted improvement in the power curve unless the computer was confused or something like that when the other muffler was on. (also I'm 90% more sober and 60% less confused than I was when I posted yesterday). Oh, and E T Haggis: My S/C seems happy with a borderline straight pipe (have a massive exhaust leak at the flex pipe I haven't fixed yet and have been enjoying frightening other drivers and small children with how rediculous the car sounds right now).