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[Arctic1]

Brought a 1999 306 to teach number 1 son to drive in off the interweb.  Clutch is a bastard which is teaching him and I patience.  It is an import Style model which is described in the Vin as a 2 litre but I thought these only came as 1.8.  Heater doesn't work either, so roll on summer.  However...on a sunny day, on the open road both he and I enjoy this enormously.

[SpikeUK]

Hi welcome soundalike you gonna have some fun haha

[Arctic1]

Today Palmy to Taihape...should keep him focussed.

[SpikeUK]

hey hope the drive went well today...

[Arctic1]

Lovely drive to Taihape...discovered exhaust drone at 3000 rpm which is almost exactly 100 kph.  Do you tell the kid to speed up or slow down to overcome it...or just grit teeth?

[SpikeUK]

.. thats a tough one ..i think if it was my son driving i'd turn the stereo up and grit my teeth! 

[Arctic1]

So...drone at 100 k = baffles in mufflers rattling around, exhaust lots of pinholes.

What price peace?

[Mungous]

I once (when a teenager) fitted a big exhaust without a resonator to one of my BXs and I had exactly the same problem!  When I got stopped doing 125 the cop didn't buy my excuse that "but it is too noisy at 100kmh, sir!"

[Arctic1]

Many years ago I had a Lancia...when the muffler fell off 50 k from home the question was how fast could you go before it was completely anti-social.  Not as fast as I hoped.

The same car had twin carbs and a manual choke  -we lived at the end of a cul de sac and the noise of it coughing and farting first thing on a winters morning must have been torture for neighbours

[cams16v]

My first car being a rx3 with a 13b Bridgeport with 3 inch straight through exhaust woke up most north Shore at 3 am