A Reasonable Silence
Installed a new exhaust system today. The old one, while it sounded nice, really had a ton of leaks due to a clapped out muffler and poor gaskets where the catalytic converter had been removed. At Golden West 2005, I'd lost a few parts, like the interemediate pipe, and had the system welded at a shop on the cheap to get me home. That short term repair lasted a year. I've had the replacement parts from the cat back for a while now and today finally got around to installing them.
The old sound can be downloaded as an .mp3 file here (300k file size) Part of me will miss that growl, but another part will appreciate the quiet and lack of exhaust smell with the windows down. Should be nicer for the long road trip coming up in a couple of weeks.
Planned on replacing the rear brake pads, but they still have half their life left. Those things never wear. The fronts should be good enough for the trip.
Other work: planned installation of a remote speaker for the ham radio, finally got a hook for the ham microphone and fixed some of the velcro bits on the dash that will make temporary mounting of things like speakers and rally computer easier.
Eric is coming over this evening so we can figure out what we'll do for a roof rack. We'll need to carry some spare fuel for ourselves and motorcycles, and most likely I'll throw one of the two full size spares up there as well.
The old sound can be downloaded as an .mp3 file here (300k file size) Part of me will miss that growl, but another part will appreciate the quiet and lack of exhaust smell with the windows down. Should be nicer for the long road trip coming up in a couple of weeks.
Planned on replacing the rear brake pads, but they still have half their life left. Those things never wear. The fronts should be good enough for the trip.
Other work: planned installation of a remote speaker for the ham radio, finally got a hook for the ham microphone and fixed some of the velcro bits on the dash that will make temporary mounting of things like speakers and rally computer easier.
Eric is coming over this evening so we can figure out what we'll do for a roof rack. We'll need to carry some spare fuel for ourselves and motorcycles, and most likely I'll throw one of the two full size spares up there as well.
3 Comments:
That exhaust sounds GOOD, Dan.
Well, it did, until you ripped it out and put some lame legal new stuff in.
;-)
i have a Saab 900s 87' and i was wondering what kind of rims and exhaust you have on your green Saab? It sound awesome
That exhaust sound was the result of:
1. lack of a catalytic converter,
2. rust holes in the muffler, and
3. exhaust leaks in the connections
So --- kind of hard to re-create and not so legal.
Rims for street and gravel tires are the stock ones that came with that model year. The snow tire rims are from an older year -- 83 I think.
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