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Old Sep 5, 2003 | 11:47 AM
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Originally posted by peejay
You might as well jam steel wool in your tailpipe and hole it in place with a couple nails.
a friend did that when he got in truble with the cops for having a car over the dB limit..
just b4 he took it in to go get tested to see it would pass he jammed some steel wool in it and deadened it enough for him to pass..

nothing to do with the rest of the thread but someone had to change it other wise we would be staring all over agian..
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Old Sep 5, 2003 | 12:37 PM
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lol, I wasn't saying "go get a Supertrapp", I was just using them as an example of how an exhaust system could be tunable by the addition or subtraction of restrictive elements.
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Old Sep 5, 2003 | 01:19 PM
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Originally posted by peejay
A Supertrapp is basically a glasspack with baffles on the end... the "tuning" is done by adding backpressure. They really suck. You might as well jam steel wool in your tailpipe and hole it in place with a couple nails.
But I thought SuperTrapps are supposed to be LESS restrictive?
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Old Sep 5, 2003 | 01:41 PM
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Supertrapps aren't really tuneable per se.

They are basically loud glasspacks. You have the option of altering the disc pack to make the car quieter via restriction at the expense of power.

Generally, this means that to make the car decently quiet, you have to make them really restrictive.

A Supertrapp with no end plate is pretty free flowing... pretty loud too!
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Old Sep 5, 2003 | 09:42 PM
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Thanks for all the responses! Here's what I have on my car... header, going straight into a cherry bomb Turbo II muffler, then 2.5" all the way to a straight through muffler on the back. It's VERY loud.
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Old Sep 5, 2003 | 09:52 PM
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So is it faster then when I drove it last? I am curious!
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Old Sep 7, 2003 | 06:27 PM
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Those Cherry Bomb piles of crap are loud but they make up for it by being restrictive.
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Old Sep 7, 2003 | 06:53 PM
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Originally posted by rotarygod
I don't like supertrapps either. If the end is completely left off they flow decently well but at that point they aren't really mufflers anymore.
Actually a national class 1st gen EP racer dynoed that 23 discs on a supertrapp puts out the same power as no discs in the supertrapp. So that's what I use on the racecar and still get *some* muffling from it.

Wouldn't use one on the street. Although using two does have potential.....
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Old Sep 7, 2003 | 09:28 PM
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BTW< I've been wondering how the RB header/double presilencer/RB muffler set-up fare in all this. Is it restrictive? (...much?)
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Old Sep 7, 2003 | 09:38 PM
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been a long time since we had a good interesting and informative debate
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