ORIGINAL: mmattockx
ORIGINAL: the Wasp
I don't get it, why don't these muffler makers make a tuned muffler for our gassers ??
I asked this very question of Bob Brassell from Jett Engineering. I was looking for a 26cc tuned muffler at the time. He said that they had looked at it, but ruled it out because a tuned muffler that worked on a 26cc gasser will be nearly as big as a canister muffler and that in the gasser market, most users were more concerned with finding an in-cowl setup than max power. A tuned muffler would never fit in a cowl and would be cosmetically unacceptable to many gas fliers.
I think what you want is a good canister setup, it is much shorter than a pipe, can be very quiet and makes way better power than any in-cowl muffler setup. Done properly, a canister system will equal or even exceed open exhaust power levels.
Mark
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And this "problem", as described by several posters (in cowl muffler deficiencies with two-stroke gassers), is what is going to bring four-strokes to the fore in gassers after a time. The Saito FG-36 is just the beginning.
Ed Cregger