The "fart can" has arrived!

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Pinto Girl @ Nov 20 2007, 10:19 AM) [snapback]541728[/snapback]</div>

Please don't include me as a Prius person.

Who would want to live in a box? I'm a person, that's all.

 

Isn't the purpose of a muffler to muffle or make the noise of the car less? Does this fart can make the car louder or softer? If it doesn't make it softer, then it wasn't worth $700 to change what is already on the car to something that functions worse and is just shinier. Better to take the muffler already on the car and have it chromed (which is also stupid IMNSHO).

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(hycamguy07 @ Nov 19 2007, 05:26 PM) [snapback]541741[/snapback]</div>

HA! Now that has to take the prize for most creative alternative application for the fart can.... (The lawn art idea was a definite contender until the fart can still; the still is an out-of-the-park home run....) Perhaps this thread could be enhanced with recipes for mash? On second thought, BATF might object... maybe not that good of an idea; but you could distill water, then BATF wouldn't be able to object. Maybe the water distillation unit could be powered by a solar array....

Well, Pinto Girl, if you don't like the sound of the fart can, you have a perfectly good idea for redemption.

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Godiva @ Nov 19 2007, 05:59 PM) [snapback]541750[/snapback]</div>

Chroming would actually be worse environmentally - there is application of a heavy metal (Chromium), with all of the adverse ecological footprint that is involved....

 

Will a standard potato still work with it, or will we need some other sort of vegetable?

Tom

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(qbee42 @ Nov 19 2007, 07:30 PM) [snapback]541779[/snapback]</div>

You might need a very big potato, if the fart can has a 4" exit pipe....

If you are referring to a certain recipe, potatoes would work for vodka if memory serves. Personally, I am more partial to a good bourbon....

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(apriusfan @ Nov 19 2007, 10:26 PM) [snapback]541776[/snapback]</div>

That's why I said it would be stupid. And why I question the replacement of the current muffler with a big chromed thing that may be louder instead of softer. (And why I told Doc VJ his new SUV had an ugly face...all chrome.)

I was trying to say that it was slightly less stupid to chrome the current muffler than to pay $700 for a replacement muffler that was also chromed and did a worse job muffling the noise.

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Godiva @ Nov 19 2007, 08:07 PM) [snapback]541803[/snapback]</div>

The fart can may be highly polished stainless, which if so, would have less of an adverse environmental footprint than if it were chromed.

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(apriusfan @ Nov 19 2007, 08:14 PM) [snapback]541806[/snapback]</div>

I have a hunch that when someone puts this on they will be very disapointed. One might enjoy the sound of a engine winding out, gear shifting sound etc. With the Prius' cvt, on and off ice, you would have a barooming exhaust note, and then instead of shifting smoothly, the tone would change in a very uncharactoristly way as the engine speed/loading changes, very unlike a conventional car. Then when your going down the road and the ICE starts and all of a sudden there is a loud exhaust note where once there was none.

The whole thing sounds like a screwy idea to me.

Icarus



PS. While I love the sound of a Ferrai V-12 spinning up to red line, I cringe at the sound of riced out Hondas and Accuras noise polluting our ears. Don't most states have noise laws and muffler standards?

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(efusco @ Nov 18 2007, 11:50 AM) [snapback]541243[/snapback]</div>

The benefit? . . . Why it's to make the Prius silent but deadly while in EV mode.

Other than that, I can't think of one other societal benefit.

Come to think about it . . . Wouldn't it be nice if all cars were required to have a 'fart can' which emulated the sounds of human farts - whereby, the more environmental damage done by the vehicle, the louder the fart sound would be . . . thereby embarrassing the drivers to quickly adopt ZEV technology.

Of course, the downside to this requirement would be the staggering large increase in the number of pedestrian deaths of boys aged 12 to 14 who find it too difficult to avoid being struck by traffic while laughing their asses off. :lol:

 

This just seems like a total waste of money. The ICE cycles when warm. So what does that do for you ... give you periodic farts? Seems to me that the money could have been used for a better purpose!

 

Pintogirl, forget all the haters. When it comes down to it, what isn't a waste of money in another individual's opinion? The purchases I make are for me, and damn anyone that says I shouldn't buy it. As long as it gives you joy, and it's not Anthrax. then you should be happy.

The muffler is apparently 1 db higher than the stock muffler. Loudness probably wasn't on the minds of the engineers at Tom's. They are looking to give the consumer a sweeter exhaust note than the raspy, stock 4-banger belch.

 

PG,

Have you installed it yet? I work across the bay in Oakland, would like to see/hear it when it's installed!

P.

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Presto @ Nov 20 2007, 06:19 PM) [snapback]542126[/snapback]</div>

You obviously haven't heard the annoying "muffler" before...!

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(icarus @ Nov 20 2007, 01:17 PM) [snapback]542048[/snapback]</div>

I agree. It just seems so strange anyone would bother to put a fart can (or any exhaust mod) on a Prius. Mileage increase? Is the stock system for this sub 100 HP engine that restrictive?? I doubt it. One would assume every component for the Pruis has been maximized for high MPG and surely even the stock exhaust system would have received more attention than usual to maximize the efficiency of the ICE during its design stages at Toyota.

The sound of an after-market, high HP, big block V-8 under WOT load is perhaps the sweetest note an ICE can produce. 6 cylinders is bothersome and just slightly tolerable, and 4 cylinders through an after-market exhaust; well, let's just say I rather (gulp) listen to Hillary when she starts screeching about this and that. Like fingernails on the proverbial chalkboard...

Rick
#4 2006

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Pinto Girl @ Nov 19 2007, 04:57 PM) [snapback]541733[/snapback]</div>

It appears so, unfortunately I've been to Darfur and since then I have regrets for every penny I've spent for what WE consider necessities.

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(firepa63 @ Nov 21 2007, 06:41 AM) [snapback]542123[/snapback]</div>

But the desision wasn't yours, it wasn't your money.

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(icarus @ Nov 20 2007, 11:17 AM) [snapback]542048[/snapback]</div>

X2

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Presto @ Nov 20 2007, 02:19 PM) [snapback]542126[/snapback]</div>

Agreed.


But I'm really hoping for is a dyno run after she puts it on. B)

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Vagabond @ Nov 21 2007, 08:16 AM) [snapback]542420[/snapback]</div>

Given the degree to which the computer controls the application of the ICE (both start/stop as well as output of hp and ft/lbs), a traditional, wheel-based dyno run would seem to be problematic.