[Vwdiesel] Fish-tail

[Mark Shepherd]

Hi Bryan
Main reason for my silence, has been due to my computer dieing with all my links on it. I only just managed to get back to my provider's email a few weks ago. There were 52,000 emails on it! I see the Yahoo site is a porn site now!!.

The fleet of 3 QTD's are fine. Alas Mary's mum [the oldest GTD driver in the world AFAIK]; died suddenly a couple of years ago. Car is parked up. I was going to use the engine in one of my 'Q's. 

Trouble is; the engine in the Q won't die, despite still knocking from the valve to piston clashes, from my overzealous head skim, and despite my apparently contraversial honing/deglazing, burns practicallly no oil, and just has a leak from a front seal, but not enough to reach the ground.
There was some headgasket cylinder to coolant leakage this winter which should have been an excuse to change gasket from 2 hole to 3, in an attempt to stop knocking but retorquing bolts stopped the leak... :o) ... :o( 

Perhaps the sound I was looking for was a throaty one. I wonder what creates it? No exhaust on a TD gives a jet engine sound, but I don't want that ...[again ;o)]My old exhaust on the Audi engine was slightly fish-tailed. Most googling goes to motor cycle stuff

Mark
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Message Received: Apr 19 2013, 03:02 PM
From: "Bryan Belman" 
To: "Mark Shepherd" 
Cc: was going t ouse the GTD engine in one of my Quantum
Subject: Re: [Vwdiesel] Fish-tail

hey Mark, where have you been. I am not much help on this one.
how is the fleet?
Whatever happened to the GTD Golf????I think it was your mom's car.

Bryan Belman, Pt. Pleasant, NJ
04 Jetta Wagon TDI PD, 100hp, 5sp -- running :<)
04 Golf TDI PD, 100hp, 5sp Tiptronic Auto -- running :<)
82 Diesel Westy 1.9NA -- running :<)
70 Type 1 stock Elm Green Beetle -- Under Restoration :-)

From: Mark Shepherd 
To: vwdiesel at vwfans.com 
Sent: Friday, April 19, 2013 8:33 AM
Subject: [Vwdiesel] Fish-tail

Greetings all.
Just renewed my exhaust on my QuantumTD waggon. Cleverly, both the waggon and the sedan need a 6" extension piece to allow for being 5" longer than the fastback. 

I am just going to wedge apiece of old exhaust onto the end of the muffler, however I seem to remember being able to change the sound of the exhaust in the 1970's and earlier with fish-tails etc. 

Anyone remember the theory of squeezing the end, other than the need for back pressure for gassers? 

My old 'Q' with an Audi engine had a pleasent rumble... What makes a rumble ?

Mark
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