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Old 09-09-2013, 07:43 AM
Damien Damien is offline
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Default Re: '69 Chevelle

Sorted some issues today, hopefully.
It's going to the exhaust shop this week for a pair of new 18" Magnaflows to replace the 14" Violators which make the car sound tinny and way too loud. Hopefully the Magnaflows will give it back the big block sound and reduce the db level a little. I realise that with a 3" exhaust it will still be loud but as I say, at the moment it's too loud and if nothing is done will eventually attract the wrong kind of attention! This will be a short term fix as hopefully after our summer I will replace the whole set up with a standard style system, which is what it had when it was restored originally. I have also bumped the timing back a little and that seems to have calmed it down a bit as the guy who I bought it off said he used to run an av gas mix for whatever reason, and had a bit of extra timing in it.I am just running premium fuel and will hopefully make it a little better to drive, although it will still need a tune by someone a little smarter than me, to get it just right.

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