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Old 06-06-2018, 11:37 PM   #6 (permalink)
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Also hopefully reduces irritating buzzing and drones, as well.

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Originally Posted by California98Civic View Post
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.
By silencer I mean a resonator like this:



Some smaller cars around these parts only use a resonator, as the cats already remove most of the sound and you're not getting a lot of noise out of a sub-liter breathing through a paper straw, anyway.
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