Slight increase in noise level, which makes sense, the engine is no longer
being choked back. Like trying to breath with an old sock stuffed in your
mouth.

Nathaniel

On 1/18/07 11:43 AM, "Burdett, Jean-Pierre" <jp.burdett@SPOTWAVE.COM> wrote:

>
> 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