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Tue Feb 16, 2010 2:48 am

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?

Tue Feb 16, 2010 3:55 am

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.

Tue Feb 16, 2010 8:47 am

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

Tue Feb 16, 2010 3:13 pm

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..

Tue Feb 16, 2010 10:15 pm

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.

Tue Feb 16, 2010 10:21 pm

I hate the fweem!

Just buy an exhaust wistle and be done with it.

Tue Feb 16, 2010 10:31 pm

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

Wed Feb 17, 2010 8:26 am

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!

Wed Feb 17, 2010 3:35 pm

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

Wed Feb 17, 2010 6:11 pm

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 :P

Wed Feb 17, 2010 10:32 pm

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.

Thu Feb 18, 2010 12:18 am

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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Thu Feb 18, 2010 5:24 am

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.

Thu Feb 18, 2010 9:18 am

LeviMan2001 wrote: Does anyone have good cutaway views of the muffler's guts and baffles? How bout the tips, those are a simple...

http://www.vwdcqinc.org.au/vwdcqimages/insideamuffler/insideamuffler.html

Freak182 wrote: 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.

...what he said.

Thu Feb 18, 2010 9:54 am

[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.

Thu Feb 18, 2010 12:43 pm

"Das only in da mornin....... you sposed' t-be up cookin breakfast."

Thu Feb 18, 2010 1:17 pm

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

Thu Feb 18, 2010 10:07 pm

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? :twisted:

Fri Feb 19, 2010 12:19 am

Now I know what you guys are on about! ahahahaha

Fri Feb 19, 2010 8:25 am

LeviMan2001 wrote: So the noise is a sort of whistling coming from all the holes perf'd into the various baffle things?

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no, it's the pea shooters... take them out and replace them with anything, or nothing, and no fweem....my ghia has aftermarket tubes(flared), it doesn't fweem... new peashooters don't really fweem