I am in the process of designing and building
mufflers.
There are two kinds of course RX8
and 13B.
They will look something like this and they will
be built from .065" thick 321 SS.
Cost will be several hundred dollars.
How many want RX8 mufflers ?
How many want 13B mufflers?
Paul Lamar
I need more info, but I probably would want a renesis (RX8)
Rich
Fire away on the questions and I will tell you what I know
so far.
Paul Lamar
I will take an RX 8 but want to 'hold off' on the down pipe
from the muffler until I get my engine mounted at the front of the 337
Thanks
Clive
No problem.
Paul Lamar
More questions from the heretic.
1. Would it be possible to make the headers (from the engine to the
muffler) longer to clear a possible engine mount conflict?
2. From the Cad, it seems that there are slip joints between the headers
and the muffler. Is this correct?
It seems, from my limited knowledge that as the muffler heats up, it will
also expand lengthwise placing fore-aft stress on each of the three
headers which would encourage cracking. This type of expansion would not be
accounted for by the three slip joints in line with the aforementioned headers.
Any thoughts here?
3. Have you given any thought, or is it possible, to coat the inside and
outside of the assembly with "Jet-Hot" coating (outside only apparently is
not a good idea). According to some (including Tacy), this puts most of
the heat out of the system, and much less is radiated from the under cowl
plumbing.
Rich
1. I don't really know. I don't have any 3D's on that mount. I would suggest
contacting the people that built it for help.
2. Yes slip joints every where. Anything is possible but so far nobody
has had problems of that sort with a tangential muffler and many have
flown. They have had problems but not that kind.
3. Sounds OK to me. If it comes off it goes right out the pipe.
Paul Lamar
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