Anyone see a Contra mufflers like this?

[jensen 32000]

http://www.members.a1.net/f1clubcontra/urcontra.htmln Can you figure what their up to.

 

[jensen 32000]

Here is a picture

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[jensen 32000]

another

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[jensen 32000]

Try again!

http://www.members.a1.net/f1clubcontra/contra.html

 

[lucky]

No habla german. Looks like some type of megaphone to make them even louder? Probably just another way to piss off the neighbors. John

 

[jokers]

What in the world is that thing for? Scaring off crows?

Russ

 

[jensen 32000]

Muffler Rational

Seems to defy all modern muffler design.

 

[sedanman]

Looks like the club attends formula 1 races. The build saw motors with megaphones just to make noise, presumably trying to out do a formula 1 car! Try this when you find a website or block of text in an unfamiliar language.
http://babelfish.altavista.com/babelfish/

 

[jensen 32000]

Thanks for the Tip!

Sedanman; Thanks for the tip on the saw and the translation site!

 

[bwalker]

Europeans are just weird.

 

[sedanman]

I know someone who would use such a thing to "wake the dead" !

 

[eyolf]

Back when I was just a lad, "megaphone" exhausts enjoyed a brief period of popularity in snomobile racing. Overall peak power was not as high as when a reversed cone and stinger is added, but there is an advantage in that scavenging is improved over a fairly broad range. A tuned pipe making power at 7500 is less than worthless at 5500, while a megaphone will show measurable gains from off-idle, on.

They fell out of favor with the advent of multi-cylinder engines. The advantage of big bores and strokes is torque at all moderate speeds. In a sense, that megaphone exhaust may be just the ticket for those old contras, because they enhance their torquey aspects over a broad range...they won't "fall off the pipe" as easily.

 

[EDMman]

That thing hurts my ears just looking at it!!!

If a man had neighbors he didn't like........