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Old 04-26-2011, 10:31 PM   #21 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by justjohn View Post
Cool. So my takeway from that was that adding backpressure (the silencer) won't help, I need the correct sized tubing. Probably better to take the silencer off.

Sound right?
No.

Leave it on. Even if... IF... it helped fe, it would be by fractions of an mpg, and nobody wants to listen to something that sounds like crap blatting around anyway.

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