Re: I don't get it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[IHMagellan <IHMagellan@domain.elided>]

I'm impressed!  Sixteen years old and you've already figured out that
horsepower and scavenging effenciency are completely unrelated and all the
acoustical engineers working for the exhaust system manufacturers have no clue
what they're doing.  And it sounds like you even have dyno test results to
show that cheap, loud mufflers are better.  Here the rest of us have been
thinking that horsepower is expensive.

Thanks for the enlightenment,
Jerry Muncie

In a message dated 97-12-16 22:53:10 EST, you write:

<< 'Scuse me for asking, but what the hell goes on in our heads. I'm sure many
 would say the same thing about me, though for opposite reasons, but man,
 people are really crazy. Take mufflers for example. Most people buy a cheap
 "regular" muffler, meant to deaden noise "pollution". This includes Scouters.
 Man, why does everyone like their cars/trucks to be quite? I don't get it.
You
 feel like your not even driving, just floating along. That's real nice until
 you "float" right into a freakin' telephone pole as you drift off to sleep.
 And man, Scouters, forget about it man, your Scout will never be quiet...
 never. Hell, the door seals don't even work, you know. Don't try to change it
 all around. Its part of the whole experience. Still others use those "new
 fangled" (I use that phrase, and I'm 16!) "turbo" mufflers. They "increase
 horsepower the companies say. First of all, they don't increase horsepower,
 they increase efficiency, by decreasing backpressure... there is a big
 difference. Second of all, they aren't at all quite, and aren't nearly as
 efficient as they could be, so you lose on two counts. Not only that, but
they
 cost a bundle. This brings me to the third choice, the one that I ultimately
 made... buy a glasspack. It jst seems to make sense to me. 1. My truck is
 already damn noisy, so noise is no issue 2. It'll keep the fun in driving my
 truck (never a dull moment when you see mothers sheilding their baby's
 strollers from disaster, or even throwing them out of the way! 3. It's second
 only to "wide open" as far as efficiecy. It helps you with you bottom end,
and
 I'll tell you, that 8-9 h.p. and 10 ft. lbs. of torque I got from switching
to
 a glasspack and a K&N air filter can really do the trick. That's nothing to
 snear at, particularly on a 152! There are expensive head blueprinting jobs
 that don't yeild that much of an increase in efficiency. Anyway, that's my 4
 cents and a dime.
 
 Oh yeah, and I like the added grunt so much, I put a megaphone exhaust tip on
 it. Now I don't usually go for crap like that, but its just the right size so
 that it doesn't get in the way, and it adds so much extra bite...
 
 Devin Smith
 '65 Scout 80
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