On Wed, 24 Nov 2004 20:09:39 -0500, Sudhir Desai <sudhir.desai@gmail.com> wrote: > so That's where I'm going wrong... and i thought they were supposed to > be heard well before they were seen :p (makes me want to put a > whistletip in my exhaust and drive around ) > > ~suds > Sudsie, My new 1.9TD is so quiet that you couldn't tell whether there was a muffler or not before I had one installed. Now that it is complete, I've had at least two people (who own VW's) come to tell me that I should have my valves adjusted since they were clattering a little bit. I used a borrowed line from my buddy Jero, "Almost sounds like a diesel, doesn't it? Just kinda quieter." BenT |
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