[Vwdiesel] Exaust

[Bryan Belman]

I just took my 82 Westy with 1.9na diesel for NJ inspection and was floored to 
find out they have DROPPED inspection for all diesels older then 1996.
They just said scrap the sticker off and you are on your own from now on.  Just 
changed the inspection law as of 8/1/2010

I am sure I will get pulled over one of these days for not having any inspection 
sticker on my car at all so I printed the notice out of then state DMV web sight 
to keep in the glove box.

Pretty crazy for NJ.

If there is no computer to tell the good folks that are employeed by the state 
to work there what could be wrong with your car, they send you home.
wow.

 Bryan Belman, Pt. Pleasant, NJ
04 Jetta Wagon TDI PD, 100hp, 5sp -- running :<)
92 Jetta 1.6 Eco-Turbo Diesel, 5sp -- running :<)
82 Diesel Westy 1.9NA -- running :<)
70 Type 1 stock Beetle -- Not running :<( 




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From: James Hansen <jhsg at sasktel.net>
To: William J Toensing <toensing at wildblue.net>; vwdiesel at vwfans.com
Sent: Sat, September 4, 2010 1:05:36 AM
Subject: Re: [Vwdiesel] Exaust

There's a lot of whistle.  The only problem with straight pipes I have
encountered, is harmonics. It's fairly easy to get a weird harmonic inside
the cabin that just thrums.  Outside isn't bad, but inside is not nice.
I've had straight pipe on my 81 Jetta, the front seats were fine, the rear
seat area had an exhaust harmonic that was unbearable.  Weird thing was, it
wasn't loud in the front at all.  Had to put a resonator in, that fixed it.
Were this my decision, I would install a free flowing muffler right away so
I wouldn't have to monkey with it later.  A dynomax on my 97 Passat tdi
works well, there is some whistle, but no reverberating cabin noise at all.

An absent muffler is not legal.  The person looking at it, needs to see a
muffler, even if it is a glasspack.
-james

> -----Original Message-----
> From: vwdiesel-bounces at vwfans.com [mailto:vwdiesel-bounces at vwfans.com]
> On Behalf Of William J Toensing
> Sent: Friday, September 03, 2010 9:39 PM
> To: vwdiesel at vwfans.com
> Subject: [Vwdiesel] Exaust
> 
> In replacing an exhaust, I think what I would try would get a flex pipe
> sized to the exhaust manifold or header, then run a copper straight
> pipe sized to the outlet of the  flex pipe & run without a muffler.
> Then if to noisy, splice the exhaust pipe with a straight thru or
> Hollywood muffler. Should be able to do that for far less than $150.
> Previous discussion on this subject said a turbo would quiet the
> exhaust enough to be legal. Whether this would work on a NA diesel I
> don't know. Has anyone tried this? Comments.
> Bill Toensing, Nevada City, CA
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