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Re: MGB Exhaust

To: vintage-race@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: MGB Exhaust
From: Walt@chekov.mayfield.hp.com (Walt Boeninger)
Date: Thu, 1 Apr 1999 13:32:34 PST
[from "B. Whiting"]
>Keep in mind that noise is wasted energy! Smokey seems to build quiet
>powerful engines. Sure every running engine will make noise, but the noise
>is waste the same as heat out the exhaust.
 
Hmmm...that seems to suggest harnessing the 115dB *sound* from our
TA car for more POWER.....how would I go about that?
 
Since sound doesn't travel in a vacuum, would I gain or lose
power if I ran the car in a vacuum?
 
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