Rode in a LOUD 12a last night..
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Rode in a LOUD 12a last night..
Alright, a friend of mine just installed a new exhaust on his 85 GS. Consisting of, a cleaned up pacesetter header, a huge *** glasspack where the cats usually go, custom straight piped (3.5") to a Cherry bomb(?) muffler. (the thing is a canister about a foot and a half long, 6" in dia, with a 4" outlet)
HOLY CRAP is that thing loud... I thought mine was pretty loud with a leaky exhaust manifild gasket and rapidly dying muffler, but you couldn't even hear it over his AT IDLE! Christ it was loud... I could hear it miles away..
HOLY CRAP is that thing loud... I thought mine was pretty loud with a leaky exhaust manifild gasket and rapidly dying muffler, but you couldn't even hear it over his AT IDLE! Christ it was loud... I could hear it miles away..
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Originally posted by MIKE-P-29
Sounds like 'get busted' time to me.
Sounds like 'get busted' time to me.
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Re: Rode in a LOUD 12a last night..
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Alright, a friend of mine just installed a new exhaust on his 85 GS... a huge *** glasspack where the cats usually go...
Alright, a friend of mine just installed a new exhaust on his 85 GS... a huge *** glasspack where the cats usually go...
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Minutes or Blocks Driven.
Hehe... I can just imagine Mazdatrix's log.
RIP: Shop to the McDonalds
RIP: 5 Minutes on the Dyno
RIP: 2 Minutes on lift checking for leaks
RIP: Shop to gas station
RIP: Exploded on first backfire
RIP: Shop to the McDonalds
RIP: 5 Minutes on the Dyno
RIP: 2 Minutes on lift checking for leaks
RIP: Shop to gas station
RIP: Exploded on first backfire
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Got that Glasspack?
Sure, that sound can be felt...
Rotary heat in just one sack,
Melt, melt, melt!
Good-bye Glasspack!
~FuLLsMoKe
Sure, that sound can be felt...
Rotary heat in just one sack,
Melt, melt, melt!
Good-bye Glasspack!
~FuLLsMoKe
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LOUD
When I put the exhaust on my 83, i wanted to see how loud it realy was. Bolted up the header and took it for a spin. Talk about loud enough to FEEL. At 7000 RPM it would make the fillings in you teeth shake. Boy that was fun.
Tried the glass pack deal to. It lasted about a week. Pulled it off, cut it in half and sure enough it was empty. I stuffed it full of stainless steel wool and welded it back together and it has been on the car for about a year now and works great.
Tried the glass pack deal to. It lasted about a week. Pulled it off, cut it in half and sure enough it was empty. I stuffed it full of stainless steel wool and welded it back together and it has been on the car for about a year now and works great.
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About 2 weeks ago I took my rx-3 out and it had jsut a header on it for a drive. (still stock 12a). I was wearing ear mufs and they were shaking on my head. Then about 4k it would set up a harmonic that you could feel in your chest then at 7.2k it sounded like a jet. Any ways I only got about 3 miles then the carpet started to get hot from where the header was flowing under the floor board. I got home and it had just started to melt so i am glad I did not drive it any more or I would have had a fire. I will say though that the 12a's are a lot louder than 13b's. I think because they are higher pitch. I have a street ported 13b in my truck and that was nothing compared to the 12a off the header.
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Re: LOUD
Originally posted by toyman
When I put the exhaust on my 83, i wanted to see how loud it realy was. Bolted up the header and took it for a spin. Talk about loud enough to FEEL. At 7000 RPM it would make the fillings in you teeth shake. Boy that was fun.
Tried the glass pack deal to. It lasted about a week. Pulled it off, cut it in half and sure enough it was empty. I stuffed it full of stainless steel wool and welded it back together and it has been on the car for about a year now and works great.
When I put the exhaust on my 83, i wanted to see how loud it realy was. Bolted up the header and took it for a spin. Talk about loud enough to FEEL. At 7000 RPM it would make the fillings in you teeth shake. Boy that was fun.
Tried the glass pack deal to. It lasted about a week. Pulled it off, cut it in half and sure enough it was empty. I stuffed it full of stainless steel wool and welded it back together and it has been on the car for about a year now and works great.
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Originally posted by Rotortuner
About 2 weeks ago I took my rx-3 out and it had jsut a header on it for a drive. (still stock 12a). I was wearing ear mufs and they were shaking on my head. Then about 4k it would set up a harmonic that you could feel in your chest then at 7.2k it sounded like a jet. Any ways I only got about 3 miles then the carpet started to get hot from where the header was flowing under the floor board. I got home and it had just started to melt so i am glad I did not drive it any more or I would have had a fire. I will say though that the 12a's are a lot louder than 13b's. I think because they are higher pitch. I have a street ported 13b in my truck and that was nothing compared to the 12a off the header.
CJG
About 2 weeks ago I took my rx-3 out and it had jsut a header on it for a drive. (still stock 12a). I was wearing ear mufs and they were shaking on my head. Then about 4k it would set up a harmonic that you could feel in your chest then at 7.2k it sounded like a jet. Any ways I only got about 3 miles then the carpet started to get hot from where the header was flowing under the floor board. I got home and it had just started to melt so i am glad I did not drive it any more or I would have had a fire. I will say though that the 12a's are a lot louder than 13b's. I think because they are higher pitch. I have a street ported 13b in my truck and that was nothing compared to the 12a off the header.
CJG
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Re: LOUD
Originally posted by toyman
When I put the exhaust on my 83, i wanted to see how loud it realy was. Bolted up the header and took it for a spin. Talk about loud enough to FEEL. At 7000 RPM it would make the fillings in you teeth shake. Boy that was fun.
Tried the glass pack deal to. It lasted about a week. Pulled it off, cut it in half and sure enough it was empty. I stuffed it full of stainless steel wool and welded it back together and it has been on the car for about a year now and works great.
When I put the exhaust on my 83, i wanted to see how loud it realy was. Bolted up the header and took it for a spin. Talk about loud enough to FEEL. At 7000 RPM it would make the fillings in you teeth shake. Boy that was fun.
Tried the glass pack deal to. It lasted about a week. Pulled it off, cut it in half and sure enough it was empty. I stuffed it full of stainless steel wool and welded it back together and it has been on the car for about a year now and works great.
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Hey Peejay, just wondering how did you set up your dump? Do you have control over it from inside the car or do you have to jack it and change it? Thanks. -George
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Started up YaYa with just the header. It could be felt blocks away. Put the road race midsection with the presilencers on and it could be heard miles away at full throttle. I did not get to put the borla muffler on as the thing blew up before I got to the muffler shop.
I got two cars with bad rear compression
And I just ran out of 12a's.....DAMN
Anybody got a really cheap one?
I got two cars with bad rear compression
And I just ran out of 12a's.....DAMN
Anybody got a really cheap one?
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Originally posted by NanaimoRx-7
Hey Peejay, just wondering how did you set up your dump? Do you have control over it from inside the car or do you have to jack it and change it? Thanks. -George
Hey Peejay, just wondering how did you set up your dump? Do you have control over it from inside the car or do you have to jack it and change it? Thanks. -George
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No jack, no in-car switch. Just drive it to the track, lay down in to grass, pull off three wingnuts (Race Readies gives you a neat little tool that gives you plenty of leverage on 'em) and take the cap off. Race around, when the track closes pop it back on and drive home.
One thing though... the car runs a lot leaner with the cap off. The fuel pump I had was internally regulated to about 5-6psi, and what I found gave the best results was running 3-3.5psi through the exhaust (Holley regulator), and when I'd run with the cap off, I'd bypass the regulator entirely. I also eliminated the return line with this setup for max fuel flow - I was running lean at the top end until I capped off the return line. A bigger fuelpump than my part-store $30 special would have solved that problem. If I'd spent the $68 on the Holley pump in the first place, it would have come with the $25 regulator, so I would have only spent $13 more by getting the Holley instead of my rig-job.
Yes I know I could have just rejetted the carb... but jets cost something like $10-15 a pair, and how many do you need to buy to dial it in? I'm too cheap for that, the car wasn't worth it
One thing though... the car runs a lot leaner with the cap off. The fuel pump I had was internally regulated to about 5-6psi, and what I found gave the best results was running 3-3.5psi through the exhaust (Holley regulator), and when I'd run with the cap off, I'd bypass the regulator entirely. I also eliminated the return line with this setup for max fuel flow - I was running lean at the top end until I capped off the return line. A bigger fuelpump than my part-store $30 special would have solved that problem. If I'd spent the $68 on the Holley pump in the first place, it would have come with the $25 regulator, so I would have only spent $13 more by getting the Holley instead of my rig-job.
Yes I know I could have just rejetted the carb... but jets cost something like $10-15 a pair, and how many do you need to buy to dial it in? I'm too cheap for that, the car wasn't worth it
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back in high school, i blew out a fist sized hole in the side of my old '79s thermal reactor. i had to drive it for a week like that! OMFG! it was hellaciously loud at idle.... give it gas and BRAAAAAAAAAAP! it sounded like the hell's angels were having chainsaw fights in my engine compartment after eating taco bell!
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