Dumping waste gate exhaust and other questions

[Michael Gough]

> 1) What affect would dumping the waste gate to atmosphere instead of the
> muffler have on performance?  I want the car to make a cool sound when I
> shift at maw boost (ala World Rally cars).
I've talked with a lister that did this. He ran a pipe straight down out of
the wastegate pointing to the ground so he didn't get a lot of carbon and
heat in the engine bay. Says it sounds like a toilet flushing lol

> 3) Have any of you run w/o a muffler?  I would think that the turbo quiets
> the exhaust some what.
I ran my JT engine without a muffler before it was turbo'ed. I thought the
cat might quiet it down enough, boy was I wrong. The stock system has 2
mufflers, removing one or the other makes a very slight difference but
removing both......It sounded really cool in the driveway with no load on
the engine, but driving down the road, anything more than 2000 RPM and it
was very earsplitting. I still have no desire to dick around with the
exhaust system with the turbo, a 3" system will be done sometime soon
though.
Mike