Spider rear exhaust

[AlfaNeely@domain.elided]

       You want MY opinion!  Wowie, Zowie, you have made my day!

       In my not at all humble opinion, the rear muffler does next to nothing 
so it does not matter what goes back there.  I replaced the rear on one of my 
91 spiders with a straight pipe and it makes almost enough noise that you can 
tell it has an engine.
       The center muffler does almost all the noise control.  On my 82, I 
replaced the center muffler with a straight pipe and put an Ansa on the rear. 
 A few miles later the rear is burned out and it is LOUD.  I like loud a lot, 
but these old ears may cause me to end up welding a glass pack in the center 
position.
       I do like the way the current large single outlet Ansa fills the hole 
in the rear valence of my other 91 spider.   I think the stock exhaust outlet 
looks rather puny centered in that huge hole.  That spider has a stock center 
section with the Ansa rear and it is very quiet.  It may get a glass pack for 
the center section too.
       I do think the Ansa may flow a bit more exhaust (opinion), but even 
the very effective center muffler on a stock Alfa is straight through.  That 
is not my opinion, but my experience - I ran a welding rod clear through one 
once just to check it out.

Ciao,
Russ Neely
Oklahoma City


In a message dated 03/19/2002 2:00:17 PM Central Standard Time, 
owner-alfa-digest@domain.elided writes:


> 
> Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2002 13:55:19 -0500 (EST)
> From: adoherty@domain.elided (Adam Doherty)
> Subject: Spider rear exhaust
> 
> Does anyone have an opinion about an Ansa v. stock rear muffler with 
> respect to noise/volume, durability etc.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> - -- 

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