OEM Muffler Cross section or diagram?
OEM Muffler Cross section or diagram?
09-02-2006, 06:05 PM
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Originally Posted by rotarygod
I know what it looks like inside but sadly I don't have a picture of it. There are 3 chambers.
One center chamber that exits to the two outter chambers/tailpipes?
09-03-2006, 01:38 AM
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The muffler is pretty much 3 equal sized chambers. The inlet pipe goes into the center chamber and then just ends sending air into the middle chamber. The pipe blasts air at the rear wall of the muffler and this is easy to tell from the discoloration at this spot on all of them. Each of the outer chambers has muffler packing around the outsides. There is a pipe that connects each outer chamber to the inner. They are not smooth transitions and are not just a hole between them. Each pipe extends into each chamber. One pipe from the left chamber to the center one and one from the right chamber to the center one. Then you have each muffler outlet. It's actually a very simplistic setup compared to past chambered mufflers they've used.
09-03-2006, 03:16 AM
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Originally Posted by rotarygod
The muffler is pretty much 3 equal sized chambers. The inlet pipe goes into the center chamber and then just ends sending air into the middle chamber. The pipe blasts air at the rear wall of the muffler and this is easy to tell from the discoloration at this spot on all of them. Each of the outer chambers has muffler packing around the outsides. There is a pipe that connects each outer chamber to the inner. They are not smooth transitions and are not just a hole between them. Each pipe extends into each chamber. One pipe from the left chamber to the center one and one from the right chamber to the center one. Then you have each muffler outlet. It's actually a very simplistic setup compared to past chambered mufflers they've used.
Not a smooth transition? I would like to have thought when Mazda designed its performance flagship car the small details would have been important, not left out.
Thanks for the info RG!
09-03-2006, 09:14 AM
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the reason why I ask is I've been thinking of opening my muffler and tinkering with it. Perhaps making it a straight-through muffler. I don't want it to be obnoxiously loud though. Just the stock sound, but louder.
I like to play with stuff, and if it sounds like ***, there's always someone trying to give away a stock exhaust here. :o
I like to play with stuff, and if it sounds like ***, there's always someone trying to give away a stock exhaust here. :o
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