Exhausts

[AlfaNeely@domain.elided]

       My 91 Spider Veloce has a stock exhaust with a straight pipe on the 
rear ending in a chrome tip I picked up at a local autoparts store.  Exhaust 
note is almost loud enough to hear it.  Still very quiet.
       My 82 Spider Veloce has the catalytic converter replaced with an old 
and probably no longer available Ansa "Catalyst Test Tube."  The test tube is 
essentially a resonator.  The center muffler was replaced with a straight 
pipe.  The rear is an Ansa dual tip, now rather burned out.  It is LOUD.  It 
was not bad when new, but with 12,000 miles or so, it has burned out and is 
too loud.  I am thinking of welding a short glass pack in for the center 
muffler.
       In fact, that is my recommendation.  The center muffler does all most 
all the work.  In spite of the stock muffler being a straight through design, 
it is quiet.  Replace the center section with a glass pack and run an Ansa 
rear section.  That should give a reasonable amount of Alfa sound.
       On the 91 and newer spiders with the round hole for the exhaust pipe, 
the new single tip Ansa fills the space nicely.  The stock tail pipe looks 
puny in that spot.  I am not into the Rice Rocket look, but do want the parts 
to look right.

       The 75 through 89 exhaust manifolds are quite restrictive.  Replace 
with a set of 74 or older exhaust manifolds.

Ciao,
Russ Neely
Oklahoma City



In a message dated 05/01/2002 7:15:11 PM Central Daylight Time, 
owner-alfa-digest@domain.elided writes:


> Date: Wed, 1 May 2002 15:07:14 -0400
> From: "Don Harvey" <donharvey@domain.elided>
> Subject: Exhausts
> 
> Ok, it's time for a new rear exhaust at least.  The stock exhaust is, well,
> not very throaty and is way to mellow for the money I have in this engine
> now.  What would you guys recommend?  Everywhere you look, ANSA seems to be
> the choice, but noticed some archives about people bashing the same.  What
> else is out there for an '86 Spider.  Anybody have Stedbro? (sp??)  Looking
> for a little more beef out of the tailpipe if you know what I mean.  What is
> the purpose of the center muffler in any event?  Can you run straight pipes
> from cat back???  Can't be too loud with a 4 banger in it????  Thanks for
> your input.
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