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Gary Chasney
Tinkerer
western australia
GT-L 4.0V8

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Friday, October 13, 2006 - 09:19 pm, by:  Gary Chasney (Pommie) Quote hilighted text Edit Post Delete Post Print Post   View Post/Check IP (Moderator/Admin Only) Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

hey peter, we dont want to go away!!

hey peter what do you think the v8 will sound with 2 hotdogs replacing the stock rear mufflers, dont really want to do the whole system.
Peter Nitschke
JunkFilterer
South Australia
GT4.0 V8

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Friday, October 13, 2006 - 09:59 pm, by:  Peter Nitschke (Pen) Quote hilighted text Edit Post Delete Post Print Post   View Post/Check IP (Moderator/Admin Only) Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

We don't really want you to go away either :-)

Changing the rear muffs won't make much difference. Even removing them won't make much difference.

For a quick fix, remove the single resonator (and Y pipes) and replace it with 2 pipes. Should be cheap enough and will give you best sound improvement for a single simple job.

However, if you do, pay for a bit more pipe and remove the 2 middle mufflers as well.

Then it will burble nicely. You don't need stainless steel pipe or fancy mandrel bends for this so keep it cheap and have some fun.

No-one will see it, so as long as it doesn't leak and they hook the pipe up to the hangers under the car, all will be well.

So you pay for pipe and labour which would probably be cheaper than paying for 2 x stainless mufflers and labour.
Gary Chasney
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Friday, October 13, 2006 - 10:09 pm, by:  Gary Chasney (Pommie) Quote hilighted text Edit Post Delete Post Print Post   View Post/Check IP (Moderator/Admin Only) Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Thanks peter,

i was quoted $140 to replace both rear mufflers with hotdogs, but i will take your advice, i would like that nice burble sound, any idea what sort of price would be reasonable for that job?

thanks, gary.
Peter Nitschke
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Saturday, October 14, 2006 - 02:53 am, by:  Peter Nitschke (Pen) Quote hilighted text Edit Post Delete Post Print Post   View Post/Check IP (Moderator/Admin Only) Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Hard call, would depend on the "quality" of the job, whether flanges are used etc.

At $140, I would think he was just going to cut off the old ones and weld on the new ones. A similar approach to the other job shouldn't be too dear.
Ben Daniel
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Twin Turbo

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Saturday, October 14, 2006 - 01:39 pm, by:  Ben Daniel (Lexustt) Quote hilighted text Edit Post Delete Post Print Post   View Post/Check IP (Moderator/Admin Only) Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

If you want that nice burble sound you need a full system with extractors, I know you said you dont want to do a full system but hey, I'd put money on that if you did do it, you would be greatly satisfied with it :-)

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