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Reply to "Exhaust Chirp from Right Side Ansa Muffler"

Way back when we first bought our '72 in 1980, one stock muffler 'jingled' at idle. Turned out that ANSA had added a "final baffle" inside each muffler by tack-welding a steel washer inside the muffler onto the perforated outlet pipes.  And in 8 yrs of driving, the tack-welds broke in one side, freeing the washer to fall into the muffler case to rattle around.

Cutting a little hole in the case allowed enough access to dump the thing out. Then I took a piece of steel pipe and stuck it in the still quiet muffler outlets. A sharp whack on the pipe end easily broke those washers off too and I removed all of them the same way. The noise increase from the four broken 'final baffles' was un-noticeable.

IMHO, anyone not rather well to-do that owns any Italian car and does NOT own a large selection of tools, welding equipment and a lathe, is fighting an uphill battle if he/she expects to  drive it regularly! Sure- there are shops that do this stuff every day.... at $80-$125/hr. And they have waiting lists.

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