[cleverklutz]

I have an idea that I would love to try. Do you think you'd be interested in doing an exhaust setup?

Here's my plan: A four banger IMO sounds like total crap. But only an inline four. Ever listen to an old school VW run that's been cammed up and has dual exhaust? It sounds like a pair of Harley's idling side by side. It keeps sounding good as it revs, and it doesn't have that sickly sound that an inline makes.

Why do they sound like that? The firing order on the VW makes it fire one bank, then the other. Essentially the one exhaust pipe fires, bang - bang - then a pause, then the other side does it. Make you think of something? Like the way a Harley idles maybe? I'm thinking you can get the same sound out of an inline four. I'm not sure what the firing order is on the PT, but if it's 1,3,4,2, then you would pair up cylinders 1&2, and 3&4 (it would fire 2-1 on the one side, 3-4 on the other). Then if you would run seperate pipes off the headers, and make them exit on the sides of the car in front of the rear wheel like some of the lake pipe setups, you'd really define that sound. I'm thinking that 1.5" dual exhaust would probably be in the area of what you'd want for diameter flow wise, maybe a larger tip 2-2.5" for a deeper tone.

The exhaust I can fab up, but the header would be harder to do. I don't have access to a pipe bender or all of that good stuff that would make it practical for me to try.

I don't know, maybe all the work and it sounds like crap. But it'd be interesting to try. I'm positive it has to have a much different sound than a typical single exhaust.

Ben