Re: 16v exhaust system

[Jan Folkson <jfolkson@optonline.net>]

The shield for the cat is probably what's causing the rattle.  Mine did it
for a while and it just took some trial and error to bend it to a point
where it wouldn't vibrate.

- Jan Folkson   www.janfolkson.com
    
'86 16V            
'99 Passat 1.8T  
'00 Beetle GLX 1.8T
 
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> From: Jorel <jorel140@yahoo.com>
> Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2000 05:56:16 -0700 (PDT)
> To: scirocco-l@scirocco.org
> Subject: 16v exhaust system
> 
> My 16v rattles under hard acceleration so I looked the
> exhaust system over in more detail than when I first
> bought the car. Behind the cat there is another pipe
> of larger diameter just before the tail pipe and
> muffler. It looks like some kind of resonator. None of
> my earlier year model scirccos had this feature. The
> 16v is definately louder than the 85 8v, and the
> exhaust system is in good shape, except for that piece
> in question here. Is this part of the factory exhaust
> system? Sometimes it is hard to tell with this car,
> since it is obvious the owner was not above performing
> some after market modifications, usually in a
> half-assed kind of way. So far all of these
> modifications have to do with wider tires, stereos,
> radar detectors, an alarm  system and this mysterious
> black box that looks like a cell phone charger, so
> this makes me wonder if this resonator looking thing
> might be an add-on.
> 
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