[dsn_klr650] big gun again

[carmic7@aol.com]

In a message dated 6/1/00 5:32:43 PM, eyemgh@... writes: >>

[Jeff Walker]

> Testify, Brother! My grandson walked into my shop at the moment > I'd finished installing my pipe and started it for the first time. He

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> off tears for his momma. Arne published a test in DSN showing that > at cruising speeds the Big Gun is about 5db louder than the DuperTrap > IDS Quiet pipe and 6db louder than the stock pipe. It looks small on > paper, but you'll notice the difference even if you're hard of hearing. >

The decibel scale, like the Richter scale, is a logarithmic scale, not a linear scale, (hence the deci, meaning 10), so the Big Gun then isn't one unit of "loudness" larger than the ST IDS. Jeff