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Old 04-29-2004, 09:02 PM
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has anybody heard before of when you get new mufflers, to spray water into the exhaust to break them in quicker? Somebody told me this so I tried it and woah.. It made quite the difference! I put enough water in it (with the engine hot) until water came out the opposite exhaust tip. after It was good and full, revved it up to get all the water out and holy hell, it sounds sweet now. It is a whole lot deeper and sounds great! I didn't believe that it'd work, but it definately seemed to.
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i've heard of doing that but never tried it.
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really!

I have never heard of this before! How did you find out?

It sounds a bit weird but hey if it works
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I heard it from my uncle. You know one of those old roadster stories.
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Cool, I might go out and do it now...I mean, it cant screw up anything can it? Just dont flood it in
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i've heard you may run a risk of getting water in your heads. not for sure though
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My mechanic told me about it who builds and races cars from the ground up. He told me it'd mellow it out a lot quicker instead of waiting a few months for it to break in. I should make another recording now that I"ve done that. I can't believe a V6 could sound this nice, it sounds like a V8.
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cool i would like to hear that i bet it sounds mean
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Our dual Maggers on my car are nicely broken in already....I dont think I will be spraying water up there
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