Fweem

[LeviMan2001]

Yes, we all know that with enough fweem you can beat Chuck Norris, and that with good fweem, women will want to be with you and men will want to be you. But what I want to know is what causes fweem? How could we reproduce fweem on other exhaust systems, or maybe other vehicles? (or would that be blasphemy?) Would modifying your exhaust tip to reproduce fweem on say a bigger displacement motor add to much back pressure?
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[Joey]

Fweem is all about the pea shooter tail pipes. The baffles in the tail pipes makes the fweem sound. I believe adjusting them in or out alters the sound as well.
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[Russ Wolfe]

Typically, only the ones with loose baffles will fween.
The original factory tailpipes actually had fiberglass packing inside them.
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[Mr.Aleckz]

gotta love the Fweem. thats what makes you a pro Slug-Bugger.
also my friends are like WTF????? when im like shhhh. here comes a vw..
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[LeviMan2001]

So it's the baffles? So if I were to get some like motor cycle baffles and put them up the pipe in my '99 S10 (with straight pipe) do you think it'd fweem? My theory is that it's the curve down to the small hole.
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[drscope]

I hate the fweem!

Just buy an exhaust wistle and be done with it.
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[Major Woody]

The whistles go woo-WOO! It's only for decoration. That's it and that's all.

[drscope]

Major Woody, I have that clip on my computer, but I couldn't figure out how to post it!

I'm glad you put it up here because thats exactly what I was thinking about when I was reading this post!
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[johnnyrotten]

The fweem is juss for decoration, that's it and that's all, "yeah I got em on my car!!!"
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[Hakka]

I am driving a 1776 with 40 IDFs and straight pipe. I miss the fweem. High-po stuff is cool, but I am more of a stock guy

[Faustuss]

That fweet is instant childhood regression to me. My car echoing its fweet off the surrounding infrastructure with the window down is the best. I do notice that the smaller engines make a higher pitched sound. My 1500 does it a lot less than my fathers 1300 did. But there are still moments.
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[LeviMan2001]

But I mean, if you put straight pipes on a 1300, it doesn't fweem anymore. So obviously it's a characteristic of the stock muffler. Hmm. Does anyone have good cutaway views of the muffler's guts and baffles? How bout the tips, those are a simple
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Shape, right?
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[Freak182]

It isn't the muffler, it is the tailpipes that do it, and only once they've broken in. We discussed this back, dunno, 13-4 years ago over on RAMVA, and IIRC, the consensus was the 'baffles' (screens?) that line the inside of the tailpipes make that fweem sound once the fiberglass packing starts to loosen up.
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[Joey]

[Madtat]

[quote="LeviMan2001"]So it's the baffles? So if I were to get some like motor cycle baffles and put them up the pipe in my '99 S10 (with straight pipe) do you think it'd fweem?

I think you need to put a different pipe down.

[Mr.Aleckz]

"Das only in da mornin....... you sposed' t-be up cookin breakfast."
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1969 Beetle
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[Russ Wolfe]

This is the inside of an original Type 3 muffler, circa 1964.

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[LeviMan2001]

So the noise is a sort of whistling coming from all the holes perf'd into the various baffle things?

I wonder how fweemy a design like this would be? (top view obviously

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Then a tip that was shaped like a beetle's except larger for a bigger motor. Obviously not to scale, or even proportion (those slashes would be more like louvers/baffles). And it wouldn't be to quiet, but would it fweem?
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[LeviMan2001]

Now I know what you guys are on about! ahahahaha


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