spare wheel under boot

[Don Warrington]

Hi Karl,

I'd be very interested to look at your spare wheel arrangement if you make
it down as far as Dunedin, and specially to hear the revised muffler setup.
I have access to a sound level meter, and using that to compare standard and
modified setups would be good, but actually listening to it tells you more
about the sound than just the level. (Character, timbre, harmonic structure
- call it what you will ...)

While on the topic, there were some emails to the list around Nov 2000 from
Colin in Wellington who had arranged a bracket to hold the wheel, rather
than using the normal single threaded rod through the existing hole, and
then from others asking him to provide a description with pictures. Did that
ever happen Colin? If not, then in your copious free time ...

Don
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At 11:11 PM 2/3/02 +1300, you wrote:

Have been doing some investigation and a couple of other Pit
Stops have suggested swapping the muffler for a different
model - LT17730 as opposed to the LT17762 that Wairau
fitted, plus replacing the catalytic converter for a resonator
(MSC19).

Can you tell me which one Wairau fitted to yours - if its the
LT17730 and its still noisy I won't bother spending the
money to swap...

Stamped on my muffler is: Super Turbo 17771. I've got a resonator too, of
unknown specification.

I don't have much experience of the loudness yet, since I noticed my water
pump leaking the day after the muffler was fitted - haven't driven the car

since

then (water pump is to be replaced tomorrow). Perhaps when I get back from
holiday I will try to measure the loudness - I think I can probably lay my
hands on a sound level meter to use.

I finally got around to finishing mounting the spare under the boot today -

it's

a beautiful thing. If anyone in the South Island hasn't seen such an

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