The car came with a stock rear exhaust exit, featuring a passive cat and small muffler can under a heat shield. The setup
was quite restrictive, made fumes to waft into the cockpit and sounded tinny. One of the first modifications to the car was
to change to a side exit exhaust.
| Hot Rod Style Muffler |
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| March 2003 |
This tiny bullet "hot rod" muffler was of the baffled type, not too loud and did not sound bad. It did get very
hot on the outside and required a heatshield. For this purpose I coiled thin-walled stainless tube around it.
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| This heat shield weighed less than one pound |
I found the baffled muffler created a backpressure measured more than 6 psi at higher revs, stealing significant top-end power.
Therefore I replaced it with a proven straight-through design.
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| Dec. 2003 |
This is a Magnaflow 4" dia by 29" bullet muffler with an add-on glasspack muffler tip. This configuration was inexpensive
and worked well. However, it was very loud with an aggressive tone from the beginning.
