Ed Cregger
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I'm not Dean, but I think Dean is saying that the YS .61 is not set up radically enough to run poorly on a muffler. The more radical the pipe timing, the less it will benefit from *A* pipe and the better it runs on a muffler. The YS .60 short strokes are really wasted when ran on a muffler and not the proper tuned pipe. Myself, I wouldn't consider running any YS on anything less than an Ultrathrust or Jett muffler. As you seem to understand, the wavelength of the pipe does have an effect upon how much benefit it bestows upon the engine. Short resonant mufflers run at 1/8th wavelength, IIRC. This means that the force of positive and negative pressure waves would be 25% that of a normal 1/2 wavelength tuned pipe. Of course, design efficiencies then enter into the equation (always reducing - never adding, when compared to the theoretical maximum). Still some boost is better than a constant positive pressure fighting the exhaust leaving the port as is obtained with a conventional/non resonant muffler. It has been a while since I studied this material, so if I'm off on the numbers I apologize, but the principle is correct, I'm sure. Ed Cregger ____________ Even I can't understand what I wrote in the first paragraph. Musta been a TIA. Correction with the * * above. Ed Cregger
< Message edited by Ed Cregger -- 10/27/2007 1:36:52 AM >
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