Slow down, son, you'll burn somebody!

[AlfaNeely@xxxxxxx]

       I would suggest you open up the exhaust flow and forget about the nay 
sayers.  Of course, my theory is that anything that makes your Alfa sound 
louder will also make it faster.  Or it will seem faster anyway.
       Since chassis stiffeners do nothing to increase the noise level of the 
Alfa, they surely cannot have any performance advantage.  <grin>

       Seriously, I have put a lot of miles on a number of Alfas with various 
exhaust configurations including straight pipes with little or no back 
pressure.  I have never burned a valve.  I have gotten stopped for overly 
loud exhausts, but my theory there is that many cops own a Harley and any 
Alfa that makes less noise than a Harley is legal.

Ciao,
Russ Neely
Oklahoma City



In a message dated 4/2/2003 7:21:51 PM Central Standard Time, 
owner-alfa-digest@domain.elided writes:

> Date: Wed, 02 Apr 2003 19:53:47 -0500
> From: "Douglas R. and Julia R. Harris" <dharris@domain.elided>
> Subject: Slow down, son, you'll burn somebody!
> 
> Edward wrote:  My spider needs a new exhaust system.  I was reading
> Click and Clack this weekend and they were saying holes in the muffler
> could cause the valves to burn due to not enough back pressure
> 
> Anthony wrote:  The car was completely stock, but I installed a set of
> euro headers and euro exhaust system. I did not adjust the fuel mixture.
> Later that night, out on the highway north Albany NY I burned a valve. I
> had always chalked it up to a possible lean mixture with improved
> breathing that burned my valve.
> 
> I write:  So if someone is considering headers, or freer flowing
> entrails out the back, what would he or she do?
> 
> (Points to anyone who can identify the oblique reference in my subject
> line above.)
> 
> Doug
> Richmond (in Springtime glory), Virginia
> 77 Spider (w/SPICA)
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