Re: Mufflers-another scam item

[farna@xxxxxxx]

The "wave dynamics" or whatever FlowMaster has been so good at marketing is a bunch of BS too. They make it sound like they invented it, but it's actually been around for years. And it's nothing they have a patent on, not the technology anyway. Maybe the EXACT placement of the baffles in their mufflers, but that's all. 

On May 17, 2005 Tom Jennings wrote:

> On Tue, 17 May 2005, Bruce Hevner wrote:
> 
> > Ahhh, mufflers.
> > Ever wonder which "flows" best?? Which "is louder/quieter than the others?
> > So have I!!
> 
> NO SH*T!!! I didn't even bother to ask casually on the list about
> that stuff I guess because mufflers (and street-type exhausts in
> general) are one of those areas with a knowledge and info vacuum.
> It's been like that for so long I gave up trying. I suppose if I
> was in your shoes I'd be more upset by it like you are :-)
> 
> Summit lists CFM for a few higher-end racing mufflers, but that's
> it. The $29 muffler looks no different in the catalog than the $200
> job. Besides hype, there's got to be some difference, but what that is
> is a mystery.


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