Making a 5hp Briggs quiet.

I just put a new muffler on my woodsplitter, and it's not any quieter than the old one. Is there any way to make thus thing quiet? I figure if they can make a car quiet, why can't they make a little old 5hp engine quiet? I'd like to be able to split some wood later at night.

Joey

Just stick the entire muffler can in the inlet of a car muffler.

supertrapp mufflers for work great

http://www.jackssmallengines.com/strapmain.cfm

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worst post in..

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Buy a honda.

MrJoshua wrote: Just stick the entire muffler can in the inlet of a car muffler.

This works surprisingly well.

The other possibility is to try a small engine repair shop and see if they have a junk generator you can steal a muffler off of.

I bet if you piped the exhaust into a bucket of water it would sound really different.

Look at a Euro spec motor. Briggs builds them with nice mufflers, (European residential noise regulations.) Very quite.

In reply to SkinnyG:

It would sound like a 1992 5.0 mustang with flowmasters!

Joey

ignorant wrote: worst post in.. 3. 2. 1. Buy a honda.

Ya beat me to it.

Turn it off.

I never understood why the small engines do not have better mufflers. When my parents had their riding mower, my father and I put a glasspack on it.. was a simple welding job that worked wonders for quieting down the small engine

I have to make something for my snow blower this year. That devil is super loud even with ear plugs.

The valvetrain is so loud on a Briggs, I don't think any muffler could make them quiet.

Bet a tiny turbocharger would quiet it down a bunch...

Check Cabelas and Bass Pro Shop for a "strap on" extra muffler for a ATV.

mad_machine wrote: I never understood why the small engines do not have better mufflers. When my parents had their riding mower, my father and I put a glasspack on it.. was a simple welding job that worked wonders for quieting down the small engine

if you have a glasspack on your riding mower, you might be a redneck.

or

if a glasspack makes something quieter, you know it was loud to start with.

AngryCorvair wrote: if you have a glasspack on your riding mower, you might be a redneck.

I have a glasspack on my central vac

4eyes wrote: Check Cabelas and Bass Pro Shop for a "strap on" extra muffler for a ATV.

Let us know what you get when you search "strap on"

AngryCorvair wrote:

mad_machine wrote: I never understood why the small engines do not have better mufflers. When my parents had their riding mower, my father and I put a glasspack on it.. was a simple welding job that worked wonders for quieting down the small engine

if you have a glasspack on your riding mower, you might be a redneck. or if a glasspack makes something quieter, you know it was loud to start with.

It was the latter... didn't need earmuffs to ride it after that

joey48442 wrote: I just put a new muffler on my woodsplitter............I'd like to be able to split some wood later at night. Joey

Is this "code" for something else?

You would think they'd make them quieter, wouldn't you?

Interesting bits from Jacks Small Engines regarding the supertrap lawnmower mufflers. Didn't even realize they existed.

http://www.jackssmallengines.com/strapmod.cfm

and

http://www.jackssmallengines.com/Products/Quiet-Mufflers

Wish the supertrap was cheaper, but might consider it myself, mostly for the riding mower. Maybe I'll buy some for my neighbors as well.

spitfirebill wrote:

ignorant wrote: worst post in.. 3. 2. 1. Buy a honda.

Ya beat me to it.

Plus one. My uncle just broke my dads powerwasher. Not a Honda, but it did have a Honda engine. Uncle on the phone with Dad:
D: Just make sure whichever one you get has a Honda engine
U: They have these Briggs and Stratton's here, what about those
D: Fine, as long as the Briggs and Stratton is a Honda
U: What's wrong with the B&S?
D: It isn't a Honda.

The Harbor Freight Predator engines are pretty quiet in stock form, fwiw. I looked at the small engine Supertrapps to quiet down our racing karts but they'd cost more than the engines.

It's an air cooled engine, they are noisy, just like old Beetles. Some have had good luck with generators by putting an enclosure around the engine (leave plenty of room for cooling though), using foam board around it. You could leave the top open to allow the heat to escape.