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Well I did the dirty deed & replaced the center muffler with a strait pipe. I now have plenty of ground clearance (~4”) for the exhaust.
Anyway I’d originally planed on doing it myself until I got to looking at the exhaust & noticed that I couldn’t just bolt in a strait pipe with out making some slight bends and links. So rather than stress over it – I just took her into a local muffler shop and for $50 the guy made the strait pipe. He also made it so (if I should ever want to or legally be required to) I could re-install it. So should I ever need to revert back now, it’s a simple matter of removing two c-clamps and swapping the muffler section back in place.
Driving her home from the shop – I was a bit surprised that while it does sound different it doesn’t really seem any louder than before. Talking to the muffler guy he said that the center muffler seemed to have kind a “tinny” reverberation – pointing out that it would flex & pulsate. He credited that to poor materials & manufacturing by the source (what can I say) I guess I need to send those comments to Moss to relay on to their exhaust vendor. It makes since because the center muffler is right under my backside and not that it’s missing I don’t really miss it.
Regardless, now she has a cool kind of throaty sound that I really like. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/thumbsup.gif Of course I was told when I got out of the Marine Corps almost 25 years ago that I’d lost some (~30%) of my high pitch hearing working around helicopters for so long.
Thanks again to Steve for his thoughts.
Cheers,
/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/cheers.gif
Anyway I’d originally planed on doing it myself until I got to looking at the exhaust & noticed that I couldn’t just bolt in a strait pipe with out making some slight bends and links. So rather than stress over it – I just took her into a local muffler shop and for $50 the guy made the strait pipe. He also made it so (if I should ever want to or legally be required to) I could re-install it. So should I ever need to revert back now, it’s a simple matter of removing two c-clamps and swapping the muffler section back in place.
Driving her home from the shop – I was a bit surprised that while it does sound different it doesn’t really seem any louder than before. Talking to the muffler guy he said that the center muffler seemed to have kind a “tinny” reverberation – pointing out that it would flex & pulsate. He credited that to poor materials & manufacturing by the source (what can I say) I guess I need to send those comments to Moss to relay on to their exhaust vendor. It makes since because the center muffler is right under my backside and not that it’s missing I don’t really miss it.
Regardless, now she has a cool kind of throaty sound that I really like. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/thumbsup.gif Of course I was told when I got out of the Marine Corps almost 25 years ago that I’d lost some (~30%) of my high pitch hearing working around helicopters for so long.
Thanks again to Steve for his thoughts.
Cheers,
/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/cheers.gif
