Posted by IH fan on November 18, 2011 at 04:34:07 from (99.95.236.142):
In Reply to: muffler or pipe posted by soundguy on November 17, 2011 at 17:34:56:
Dad always took the muffler off and put in a straight pipe on his C or SC when he was doing heavier work, like plowing or disking, but had the muffler on when cultivating, mowing, raking or whatever... said it had a little more power. I think he just liked the sound because he always put "glass-packs" on his cars. Maybe the straight pipes were the start of my hearing loss.
About noise and ear protection:
Everyone talks about the noise from jet engines as being so bad.... you should walk into a concrete block hydraulic piston pump test cell with 5 or 6 pumps running at 5000psi. I know for a fact it can be over 140db because I have checked it with a decibal meter. Even with molded ear plugs and muffs it wears on you after a while.
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