RE: 16v exhaust system

["Shannon Fenton" <sfenton@amazon.com>]

Yes that pipe is a stock 16V resonator. I doubt your rettle is there though,
most likely it is either the heat shield on the cat of your flex coupler may
be dying. HTH


Thank you for your time.
Shannon Fenton
Telecom Resource Management
Amazon.com
206.266.6736
sfenton@amazon.com

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-scirocco-l@scirocco.org
> [mailto:owner-scirocco-l@scirocco.org]On Behalf Of Jorel
> Sent: Friday, September 15, 2000 5:56 AM
> 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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