Any difference in noise levels? Any other listees that use this setup
and comments?

thanks

JP Burdett | Product Marketing Manager
Spotwave Wireless Inc. 

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-----Original Message-----
From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf
Of Nathaniel Poole
Sent: Thursday, January 18, 2007 2:37 PM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: More power

For all the airheads out there running their stock exhaust, rip it off
now and get the muffler that bolts straight to the heater boxes ie.
German Supply part no. 071 251 053 E

I swapped my US federal exhaust with crossover pipe, EGR and cat with
this unit, and the power difference is incredible. This van now moves
about as well as most other vehicles I've driven, which have been mostly
Japanese four bangers, but also including a 6 cylinder Nissan Quest
minivan. There is a big hill near my place that I drove up this morning,
and doing 50kph in third gear, I was able to ACCELERATE as I climbed it.
Not much acceleration, but in the past I had considered doing it in
second gear.

I understand that in the US this setup is mandatory, tho in Canada it is
not. But if you are in the US, I would even suggest hanging onto the old
system and popping it back on when you go for smog testing. Maybe that's
a no-no, but when you consider the massive reduction in engine
efficiency that occurs with this setup, you will end up burning more
fuel and therefore producing more pollution. It makes no sense at all to
have this on the AC vans.

I have never before experienced such a dramatic change in power with
such a simple modification.

Nathaniel