Thread: A slightly early birthday present..............

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This episode was delayed by our "industrious" pals at the postal service, but progress will prevail..............The parts I ordered for the exhaust mod were sent from the Bay Area of California via first class mail. Unfortunately, if an envelope is the least bit "odd" as defined by the design of the automated processing equipment, it gets kicked aside for manual handling.............in this case it sat ignored for 7 days. I know it's their busy season, blah blah.

Okay, so early on I mentioned the "quad exhaust system" on these Boss cars. If you didn't look it up basically there are a pair of side exit pipes that bypass the resonator and muffler portion of the tail pipes so only the cat converters muffle the exhaust sound. Of course the federal noise Nazis are ever involved so Ford took measures to maintain the db output at an "acceptable" level. They do this with what they euphemistically call "gaskets", basically a stainless steel plate with a 5/16" hole in it that allows a bit of exhaust through for sound effect. We scofflaws who wish a more authoritative sound of course figure out how to "help" fix this deficiency. All that's needed is a replacement "gasket"................problem solved.

Here is a picture showing the original with a 5/16" hole, and the repair piece with a 3/4" hole. I didn't make my own recording, but attached is a short youtube that is close but not nearly as gratifying as in person.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?featur...&v=0MN1VW7cTZA