Exhaust Note

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In a message dated 8/25/01 8:40:47 AM, zkwills@aol.com writes:



<< I read your essay about the origins of the Super Six exaust

sound and realized that I hadn't heard mine in a while. In fact, it

had been so long that messages about web sites, chat rooms and the

like were starting to matter to me. An hour's drive down narrow, tree

lined country roads listening to that sweet exaust note has brought

me to my senses. >>



Having started my automotive love affair with British sports cars, the

exhaust note has always been very important to me. Both of my Hudsons sound

like trucks, no big worry as I like trucks, but until Geoff & Zeke started

talking about how nice their Super Sixes sounded, I didn't give the Hudson

note much thought. My cars are not musical.

As I recall, the English secret to a melodious note, especially on

overrun, was to use fairly small diameter pipe with a reasonably open

muffler. The Rootes cars added a resonator and were among the best sounding

of all.

What sort of note are you getting and what sort of system are you using?

Are you getting the nice braaap tone when you back off the gas? A musical

exhaust is worth trashing an otherwise perfectly good system to accomplish!







Paul O'Neil, Hudson29@aol.com

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