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Old 06-05-2018, 10:15 AM   #4 (permalink)
California98Civic
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Originally Posted by niky View Post
Baffles won't do much. Far better to have a silencer integrated into the pipe and be done with it.

Once had a set-up with a removable baffle. More trouble than it was worth. And with the silencer in, performance was worse than when I had a quieter muffler in. And the sound was awful.
I have seen other, less thorough tests in which something called a "silencer" also fails to do the job a muffler does. Did you watch the video? I cannot recall readily this morning but I think he calls a few of these "silencers".... maybe not.

Also, there are "lollipops."

I imagine one could try to tune the spund with the shape and position of the baffle, but I am getting the impression that the only really effective silencer is actually called a muffler. Lol.
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