db limit for the 2004 impba nats

[Chris Wood]

does anyone know if the club has or is going to have a db limit for the internats this year.

I am working on mufflers right now but would like to know in advance..

thanks for your help..

 

[Joe]

Chris

No DB limit for the nats. It will be run by the book.

Joe Grace

 

[offshoremodels]

Sad

 

[Joe]

Yep it is sad. What some guys use for mufflers should be stuck in their ear.

Joe

 

[Chris Wood]

joe,

thanks for the info, also i agree with you

chris

 

[Don Ferrette]

Not to churn the water but you guys DO have the right to say what passes for a muffler.......... <_<

 

[Zimmerman]

Don,

P-u-u-l-l-l-e-e-e-s-e!!!!!! Don't get the Db thing started again! That subject has been stomped, pounded, cussed, rolled over.... ad-infinitum. Enough....

Please?!

Rich

 

[Don Ferrette]

No , no, no. NOTHING about dB's. We all know what a muffler is supposed to look like & what it's supposed to do..........

 

[Zimmerman]

Amen Brother!

Rich

 

[Ron Olson]

I hope that anyone that lives in the area is tolerant of the noise for 7 days! The Host Club could have specified if they wanted to any decibel limit that they desired but I guess chose not to in the Ads for the Internats. Most at last years race were probably at or under 92 dB but there always be somebody trying to be slick by adding a "muffler" knowing well they could be fast and quiet.

This should be something that the Host of the 2005 Internats should look at.

 

[Don Ferrette]

" This should be something that the Host of the 2005 Internats should look at"

I think the game will change before that.............

 

[DJT]

Whats the problem with lowering the decibel limit? Are people complaning about having to run mufflers? If everyone runs them, and meets the limit, than everything should be back on the same level. Am I wrong in my thinking?

Derek

 

[Ron Olson]

Nah, they get mad because quiet pipes make their boats 5 MPH faster and they can't handle the speed!

 

[Joe_Knesek]

This whole db thing is between the haves and have nots. Those who have thier hearing want to keep it and those who do not have thier hearing want to be able to hear thier boats.

The biggest complaint I hear from those who are against the DB rule is that they can't hear the boat. Maybe the reason they can't hear something at 92db is beacuse they have been listening to boats at 109db for too long.

 

[offshoremodels]

P-u-u-l-l-l-e-e-e-s-e!!!!!! Don't get the Db thing started again! That subject has been stomped, pounded, cussed, rolled over.... ad-infinitum. Enough....Please?!

Sorry but that is the only way things get done some times.

 

[Don Ferrette]

Nah, they get mad because quiet pipes make their boats 5 MPH faster and they can't handle the speed! 

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[Bart Drieghe]

Maybe the reason they can't hear something at 92db is beacuse they have been listening to boats at 109db for too long.

LOL U GOT THAT RIGHT JOE

Bart

 

[apache]

Is simply adding a water nipple to your stinger and running the water exit through it to hard to do? No muffler, no swinging weight, no mess, and no muss. It will quiet down a boat as good as or better then adding a muffler.

I am one that wants the boats to be quieter, I just don't want someone to tell me how to do it. It's the final result that counts.

 

[Don Ferrette]

I'm tired of this topic as much as anyone but water injection as a primary source of noise suppression just ain't gonna cut it, we've tried it, so have many others. And I can just hear it now... "my water line came off, that's why it's louder" blah, blah, blah. Nope, not enough & the districts who have already adopted noise limits can tell you water injection only won't get you below thier limits. Plus it does ZERO for pit noise, which is still part of the equation............ <_<

 

[mark poole]

To stay on the lighter side of this.....when i first started going to the RC races there was one guy that said "too bad i can't run a megaphone pipe instead of these reverse ice cream cones, i'd really show ya some horsepower!!!" Now, i remember going to real boat races as a kid a watching old Mercury stackers (megaphones) race. Can you imagine 30,0000 rpm, nitro, out of a megaphone pipe??