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I'm finally getting to work on this pair of '01 H6 OBWs, both acquired over the last year.  Today I got under one to bolt up the junkyard trailer hitch I snagged last weekend, and noticed this weird growth on the muffler - a pair of tubes welded to the body of the muffler go in/out of this little bulbous thing.  Never seen one before.  What is it?

 

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the H6es have a hi-flow bypass. Promoted as doing a coupla things, reducing noise but 'perhaps' maintaining scavenging at low rpms, then, allowing higher flow , with more noise, at highway speeds. Noisier at highway speeds anyway so - why not.

makes for a very pricey replacement, many folks at this point in the models' life have just replaced it with some 'normal' aftermarket. Mine is still original but, no rust down here.

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Interesting.  I'm not anxious enough to understand this to cut up a perfectly good muffler, but I"m curious how it works.  Is it just a clever fluid dynamics thing, or is there something in there like a flapper valve that diverts to the bypass at higher flow rates?

 

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