[Vwdiesel] needing muffler recomendation for a 1.6 na motor

[Tad]

I've had a straight pipe on my TDI for years, and not even my mom thinks
it's loud. :)  But then a TDI has a turbo and a cat to quiet things down.

On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 1:46 AM, William J Toensing
<toensing at wildblue.net>wrote:

> I don't have any recommendation for a muffler but I was wondering whether a
> straight pipe would make the car to loud. Has anyone tried it?The Argosy
> motorhome I once owned had a straight pipe but had an Isuzu turbodiesel
> engine. I was told the turbo quieted the exhaust to the point where it was
> legal. Would a straight pipe help or hinder fuel economy? My Isuzu powered
> 26 foot Argosy motorhome got fantastic MPG, up to 17 MPG. It had a Chevy 1&
> 1/2 ton chasses with a GM turbo-hydromatic 400 coupled to a gear vendor 2
> speed auxiliary transmission. However some engines need some amount of back
> pressure to function most efficiently. Do our na & TD diesels need this or
> is the less back pressure the better? It has been my experience that diesel
> mufflers tend to last indefinably in the Calif. environment. Comments?
> Bill Toensing, Nevada City, CA
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