Re: interesting discovery

[Ken W <hazmat@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

jimmy ray <p1atinum@domain.elided> wrote:
> when i was driving the other day in my 95 325i, with b&b triflow
> exhaust, i was switching from my tape to my cd changer, and skipped
> across AM on the radio and i noticed that it had a similar tone of
> static as my exhaust, so i left it on AM (while it was staticy) and
> interestingly enough the static sounds coming from the AM of the
> radio is synchronized with my exhaust/rpm!! as i step on the gas,
> the engine/exhaust get louder and the static pitch gets higher, and
> as i let go of the gas, it gets lower. i flipped around to get other
> stations and found that not all of the non-working AM stations work,
> and they all have different tones.
> 
> now, i have only b&b triflow exhaust on my 95 325i with no other
> engine mods, has this happened to others? or am i just finally
> discovering something that has been known for ages??
> 
> and it shouldn't be something that i worry about right??

Well, since the B&B is so damn loud, my guess is that it is travelling
all the way to the radio station, so you are actually hearing it
through the airwaves!


- -Ken ;   Salem, MA
'91 M3
'97 318ti Sport, RIP....

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