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That's right.
The Ace Motor Mechanic just called me to say THE SLOPPY JALOPY RIDES AGAIN!
He's finished welding the new exhaust pieces together, and describes it as 'quiet.' -- Until he hits the throttle. And Speedster "D" -- you can keep the Honda calendar. He says it doesn't have the 'tuner' sound, despite appearances.
This is good news, race fans. Tomorrow, after installing new copper bits, she will again terrorize the streets of Maryland -- for fifty miles or so, slowly, and not making much noise.
Then I'll change the oil, un-hang the newly-completed exhaust bits, and send them to be ceramic-coated.
FYI, the new, stainless barrel muffler came off of a really big ATV. How's THAT for thinking out of the box? Thanks, TC!

The photos below are stock shots from the Photobucket links of last week. The first two are the re-worked banjos and and the newly-installed temperature gauge. In the last one, you can see the piping to the collector and the ATV muffler, but not what he got done tonight.

Kelly, expect that phone call. Where will you be in the early afternoon? Designing rockets, perhaps?

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GREAT! Just when the warmer weather hits in DC, too!

Somehow, I can't imagine an aircooled flat-four EVER sounding like a tuner. Maybe if you ran a Bursch exhaust, as they tended to be higher-pitched and tinny (the runners were smaller diameter and converged differently), but the exhaust runners on a flat four tend to make it sound bassy, like a Harley.

I always get a kick out of starting up with a bunch of original 356 cars; They start and are relatively quiet, then I start mine, all hell breaks loose and people turn to see what the heck that racket is all about ;>)
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