The Phantom Expander

[saltydog]

Did anyone hear about the fella in Blenheim that was sneaking around filling up the big-bore exhausts with expander foam?
Legend or looser?

[Blackshear]

Ah ha ha ha.
Wasn't one of those anti-boy racers turn 'OMG THIS IS FUN I'LL DO EVERYONES'
Legend, till it got outta hand.

[3umph]

lol.... what a good idea... haha

boyracer show in chch this weekend I wonder if that gets done down here

[cave weta]

What a legend! some one should sponsor him to provide this service nationwide!:woohoo::woohoo:

[saltydog]

I remember when I was a wee tacker, holidaying at Mangawai heads Motorcamp, Mr Wippy would turn up everyday and park up outside our tentsite and sit there for an hour selling his ice creams.
After a couple of days the old man, sick of the fumes and noise promptly marched out onto the road and shoved (read 'grind') a spud into the poor guys exhaust pipe.
It stalled the truck and Mr Whippy never parked next to us again. :yawn:

[Karl@Alpha]

I know someone who did this to a car...
Never steal a car park from a sparky, they carry around all sorts of things and have an evil thirst for revenge, well, my dad has anyway...:devil2:

[FJRider]

More like a loser... some he did weren't boy racer type or cars.....

[Virago]

Deranged anti-social fuckwit, who is using a genuine community concern as misguided justification for sneaky underhand vandalism.

Probably started his career as one of the idiots who ran around slashing tyres on Peugeots and Citroens, after the Rainbow Warrior affair.

[FJRider]

Deranged anti-social fuckwit, who is using a genuine community concern as misguided justification for sneaky underhand vandalism.

Probably started his career as one of the idiots who ran around slashing tyres on Peugeots and Citroens, after the Rainbow Warrior affair.

Don't beat around the bush, or be so polite...

[Virago]

I could have done the less polite version, but I would probably have to give myself an infraction for it...

Actually, the fellow is probably related to the guys in Britain, who hounded a (female) doctor out of town with vicious attacks - because they didn't understand the difference between Paediatrician and Paedophile. From memory, one of them spotted the doctor's listing in the Yellow Pages...

[twotyred]

definately a loser, he wasn't really picking on "boy-racers" just anyone with a big-bore style pipe on the end of their exhaust,filled a middle-aged womans car pipe and an off duty cop amongst others...:bash:

hopefully someone shoves the expander tube up his pipe:buggerd:

[James Deuce]

The Phantom Expander is the coolest superhero name EVER!

[Zoolander]

Im sure the cock wouldn't give a second thought to doing the same to a bike either.

[Tank]

I dont know about the other cars. But Im a great supporter of it happening to the boy racer's cars - fuck - I'd support someone setting the anti social bastards cars on fire.

[Road Guardian]

Im sure the cock wouldn't give a second thought to doing the same to a bike either.

Its funny you say that because the Phantom Expander made his headlines in the Marlborough Express (Depress, as some of us call it).
Filling up some poor girls 92 Honda civic that had some new light and a paint job done on the car, even though the civic had a normal exhaust.

Anyway, quiet a few people wrote their opinions into the editor of the express, with some people being against the Phantom Expander, and others for his "heroic" quests.

Last week, some old person decided to write in saying that the Phantom Expander should also fill the exhausts of motorbikes, labeling us as noise flys or something stupid like that.

Then the next day, the letters to the editor was filled with people like my self who thought, WTF.

One guy said we (motorcycle groups) do more for our societies than any boy racer, with charity runs for St John Ambulance, and many other groups, cancer, lifeflight etc. And all the letters where against that old persons opinions.

Rather than poring diesel and doing burnouts on the roads and keeping good people up all night, like most boy racers do,

I am sure that person who wrote the initial letter is probably think that he/she should have thought twice before saying anything about noisy motorbikes!!

[Tank]

I remember when I was a wee tacker, holidaying at Mangawai heads Motorcamp, Mr Wippy would turn up everyday and park up outside our tentsite and sit there for an hour selling his ice creams.
After a couple of days the old man, sick of the fumes and noise promptly marched out onto the road and shoved (read 'grind') a spud into the poor guys exhaust pipe.
It stalled the truck and Mr Whippy never parked next to us again. :yawn:

Dude - Nobody, but nobody fucks with Mr Whippy on KB.

Last time it happened it went International. Its that serious.

[saxet]

Misguided legend. Good idea in some ways but not legal, He needs to make sure he's actualy picking on noisey exhausts not just anything that looks loud.
Speaking for myself, I live on a hill and people have to accelerate to get up it and hence they make some noise. How much varies but the main noise makers are jap cars with big exhuasts, V8's driven by slightly wealthier and older people, but the worst is a Ulysses guy on a Harley look alike that shakes the f...ing windows. Funnily enough he complains about boy racers???
I support noise testing on commuter vehicles if a sane noise level is agreed upon...but theres the problem..who decides and how. So many vehicles are freakin loud for no reason and alot of them can be bikes. Seems we all want to blame other people without looking at ourselves.

[vifferman]

I can understand the Phantom Expander, because for a long time I was seriously considering doing it myself. There's a houseful of boys with noisy Jap cars just up the road from us - it's not so much the loudness, as the tone; they sound crappy and farty - just noise for noise's sake, like bloody automatic Jap import cars with loud zorsts, that fart along but get nowhere fast. My son has a Peugeot 205 Gti that has a stock exhaust that's nearly as loud, but it's tuned like that, not set up to say, "look at me!" Similarly, there's a DeTomaso Pantera across the road - we can tell when it's started, as the walls and windows rattle. Doesn't bother us - it's just the way it is, like the Porsches and other exotic cars that visit the owner, or his racing 911. They're performance cars, and to sound the way they do is appropriate. What isn't appropriate is vehicles - bikes, cars, scooters, whatever - that are loud just for the sake of being loud.

[pzkpfw]

You mean like when I was a teenager, and the back half of my exhaust system used to fall off, and I'd drive all over town at night playing "race cars"?

[peasea]

I can understand the Phantom Expander, because for a long time I was seriously considering doing it myself. There's a houseful of boys with noisy Jap cars just up the road from us - it's not so much the loudness, as the tone; they sound crappy and farty - just noise for noise's sake, like bloody automatic Jap import cars with loud zorsts, that fart along but get nowhere fast. My son has a Peugeot 205 Gti that has a stock exhaust that's nearly as loud, but it's tuned like that, not set up to say, "look at me!" Similarly, there's a DeTomaso Pantera across the road - we can tell when it's started, as the walls and windows rattle. Doesn't bother us - it's just the way it is, like the Porsches and other exotic cars that visit the owner, or his racing 911. They're performance cars, and to sound the way they do is appropriate. What isn't appropriate is vehicles - bikes, cars, scooters, whatever - that are loud just for the sake of being loud.

Agreed. Although I like the sound of a well-tuned engine it doesn't have to rattle the windows to sound great. I hate V-twins that are too loud just as much as a rotary that's too loud. I can recall the uproar with racers at Western Springs when mufflers were made mandatory but it didn't take long for the racers to realise that their cars/bikes could make just as much and sometimes more power with good mufflers installed.

It would be interesting to take your basic turbo'd Nissan Skyline (for example) to a reputable dyno shop and run it in stock form, then again with a big bore, noisy muffler and for a third time with a big bore quiet muffler. I'm willing to bet the difference in net output at the back wheels between the b/b quiet and the b/b noisy would be SFA.

[vifferman]

I'm willing to bet the difference in net output at the back wheels between the b/b quiet and the b/b noisy would be SFA.
... and I'm willing to bet that in many cases the noisy mufflers would make less power at some revs.

[peasea]

... and I'm willing to bet that in many cases the noisy mufflers would make less power at some revs.

Yes, probably in the lower (read-torque band) range, just where you need it. IMHO some of the problem is that these whizz-bang screamers don't make any torque, you have to buzz the nuts off them to make them move. By the time anything interesting is happening the rpms have climbed to half a zillion and so has the decibel level.

[Delerium]

People need to understand the principle of big bore exhausts. It can give significant power gains if doing it for performance (ie people like me), or it can be done to sound like a mouse farting in a milo tin (not people like me). Either way if anybody is prepared to carry out some vigilantie acts on my car like that, then they better be damn prepared for some vigilantie retribution, cause you gonna get owned one day when you damage somebodies pride and joy. How would you feel if somebody did it to your bike? the guy needs a kick in the ass.

[skidMark]

Im sure the cock wouldn't give a second thought to doing the same to a bike either.


Do you blame them? when you see how the hoon bikers ride...

Do you actually wonder why everybody hates us?

:rolleyes: