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skemcin · Joined: 02 Sep 2003 Posts: 1284 Location: Plainfield, IL

Even wish your toofah had a deeper, meaner exhaust note?

Just give it 32 years and one week and let it rust off:

[somewhere on I-55 between Rt 30 and the I-355 interchange, my car got meaner]

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CorsePerVita · Joined: 25 Jul 2008 Posts: 1992 Location: Redmond, Oregon

A long time ago I owned a 1978 Mustang II Ghia.

Crappy little 2.3L 4 cylinder mustang.

One day... I heard a loud BANG from the back of my car and the muffler had blown a hole in it.

After that, people asked if it was a V8. Sounded like a V8. Nice and throaty. Like a real mustang.

At some point I had to put it in drive and step on the gas, after that point it was pure disappointment. But man it was such an awesome car at idle.
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- 1977 Porsche 924 2.0 N/A (Trackday Project)
- 1979 Porsche 924 2.0 N/A (The other daily)
- 1980 Porsche 931 (Daily)
- 1987 Lamborghini Jalpa
- 1999 Ducati 900SS

skemcin · Joined: 02 Sep 2003 Posts: 1284 Location: Plainfield, IL

Slam · Posted: Tue Oct 19, 2010 3:41 am Post subject:

I'd never wash my hood again...

When I blew the muffler off my 83 944 the car sounded like an F-1 car, especially at high revs. I missed the racket when I got it fixed.
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ideola · Joined: 01 Oct 2004 Posts: 15550 Location: Spring Lake MI

When the final muffler fell off of the 928, it sounded so great, I just left it off. I got MORE comments about how great and different that car sounded, and all because the muffler rusted off.

But it did have a snarl to it! Sorry it's gone

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staticsan · Joined: 19 Jan 2009 Posts: 450 Location: Sydney, Australia

When I bought my 924, the PO had attempted to put a straight pipe through the last muffler. It wasn't that great an idea, especially after driving it 1400kms home. I had to buy a CD halfway to ease the drone of the broken muffler.

I had a muffler place look at it and all the mufflers were in a sorry state. I was lucky that he's worked on Porsches before; he replaced everything from the manifold back, except for the tip which he said was a genuine Porsche part and very difficult to replace. It sounds a helluva lot better now.

Wade.