Twisted Noodle
05-17-2009, 11:33 PM
So I always read on here about other people running 14 or 15 lbs of boost and always seems to run so much faster than mine does. So I did some thinking and decided to cut off the muffler today just to see how much of a restriction it is. I think it is still the original exhaust (just a guess). I got under the car and noticed a big slit in the muffler. After further inspection I noticed the muffler clamp right before the rear wheel on the drivers side only had one bolt on it.. the other half rusted off. I broke it off by hand and thought this seemed like a good place to cut. So I got out the Dewalt and hacked that sumbitch off.
I took it down the road and holy ----! I cannot believe the difference! Pulled the wheel right out of my hand. Now it almost smokes the tires going into second. I am definitely going to have to get the power steering fixed now.
It feels like I cut a second of my 1/4 mile time (I actually have never run the 1/4 in this car, I am just using my butt dyno).
I took it down the road and holy ----! I cannot believe the difference! Pulled the wheel right out of my hand. Now it almost smokes the tires going into second. I am definitely going to have to get the power steering fixed now.
It feels like I cut a second of my 1/4 mile time (I actually have never run the 1/4 in this car, I am just using my butt dyno).