Tom Wesenberg
Well-known member
The other day someone complained about the noise of the exhaust. I can't find the post now even though I checked through all 13 pages, and did a search for "exhaust" and "muffler".
Anyway that person said they thought they wouldn't want an Aries, thinking it would make more noise. I've only had a stainless Aries on my 28 Phaeton since I've been driving it and never noticed any noisey exhaust. After that post the other day I purposely paid attention to the exhaust today as I drove around. In a Phaeton with no side curtains I could pick up any objectionable exhaust noise quite easily. I didn't even hear any exhaust. The only noise I heard was the excess play of the valve train on my well used engine, and when I accelerated I could hear the air being sucked into the carb.
The only noise I ever noticed was a light backfire when I let off the gas comming to stop lights.
I'm thinking the person that posted about the noisey exhaust must either have a hole in the muffler, or a leaking joint at the exhaust manifold. The cheaper muffler would have more back pressure, so any leak at the manifold would probably be noisier than if he had an Aries muffler.
Anyway that person said they thought they wouldn't want an Aries, thinking it would make more noise. I've only had a stainless Aries on my 28 Phaeton since I've been driving it and never noticed any noisey exhaust. After that post the other day I purposely paid attention to the exhaust today as I drove around. In a Phaeton with no side curtains I could pick up any objectionable exhaust noise quite easily. I didn't even hear any exhaust. The only noise I heard was the excess play of the valve train on my well used engine, and when I accelerated I could hear the air being sucked into the carb.
The only noise I ever noticed was a light backfire when I let off the gas comming to stop lights.
I'm thinking the person that posted about the noisey exhaust must either have a hole in the muffler, or a leaking joint at the exhaust manifold. The cheaper muffler would have more back pressure, so any leak at the manifold would probably be noisier than if he had an Aries muffler.
