Where can I get a pair of tailpipes that Fweem? The peashooters I have now must have some sort of baffle in them that keeps them from fweeming.
-Jeff
You need to use them longer...
J.
Just drive. They will eventually fweem when the baffles rust and burn out some.
Was I surprised when I got maximum gorgeous sounding fweem outta my 68 Bug cab
1500 like NEVER before. I was repairing some damage from a rear ending I recently got and replaced the tailpipes. Funny but they were shorter than the ones I took out. Well I inserted them so that they went all the way into the sleeve so that they were even with the inside of the muffler. Consistent wonderful fweem was the result. Slight pressure on the accelerator and fweemmmmmmmmmm. Eric 68 Bug cab fweemer. 62 Ghia...cab
They will start fweeming as they get old and teh 2-3 spot welds thet hold them in place break free. Due to rust.
So all you need to do is wait.
Jan
It took mine 10,000 miles before they fweemed. Now I don't ever want to get rid of them :D
Last time this topic came up, wasn't there someone that was going to explore breaking the spot welds, hastening the fweem effect?
Did that ever work?
- Fweemless in Chicago.
I was the one that asked (if I remember correctly). I also tried to investigate my old ones and new ones (old ones fweemed, new ones not) to "fweemenable" thw new ones. Basically the inner pipes with holes were moving slightly in the old ones. So was the pipe in=20 another of the new ones. Still it wouldn't fweem. I did not see anything that I could have dremeled, bent or drilled to make them be similar to the old ones. I think the looseness required is quite=20 minimal or I did not find the clue at all.
Do yourselves a favor... Don't you HATE it when all of a sudden that sound increases, and you know you've just 'lost' a peashooter? Once you get the stupid things installed, drill two small holes 30 degrees apart (+/-) through the bottom of the muffler where the pipes go in, then put in a couple of pop rivets... NOW when fweem does arrive, it wont disappear the first time you go over some railroad tracks..
I lost my fweem when the peashooters rusted out so badly, the insert of one shooter was getting pushed out by the pressure of exhaust. I'd kinda kick it in every other day or so.
Eventually replaced both, bye-bye fweem. :(
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