I often wondered if the jardines baffle can be made into a glass pack type muffler. They usually flow straight through but have little lips or hole so sound can get trapped in the glass packing. But not sure how it would sound or perform. I guess the center plate could be put back if needed.
> On 5/28/04 3:17 PM, "oxv@xxxxxxxx" <oxv@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > I'm curious if you know why that portion of your exhaust is discoloring? Looks
> > strange to me. I always thought that the farther from the head you get the
> > cooler things would get. If your engine is running so hot that the muffler is
> > turning colors I would begin to wonder about the temps at the head.
> >
> That caught my eye too. These are both pretty wild leaps of intuition. I
> wonder what we are seeing is raw leftover fuel burning when it gets close
> enough to the end of the pipe to find additional air. Another (pretty
> remote) possibility is that if he runs it a lot of the time at the same RPM
> and there is some sort of standing wave pattern getting etched on the pipes.
> I wonder how blue it got just outside the exhaust port?
>
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> Doug
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