What is a cherry bomb?

[GI]

I'm buggered if I can work it out after doing searches on here.

Can anyone give me the definitive answer?

Thanks awfully, gents.


Graham

[GreenV8S]

It's a brand of exhaust silencer, they usually come painted bright red.

[Hoover.]

used to be very popular on minis in the late 80s IIRC

[dougc]

Hoover. said:

used to be very popular on minis in the late 80s IIRC

And Griffs in the mid 00's??

[petclub]

Can't remember what they sound like as Hoover's sent me deaf!

[silverback mike]

Minimax's S3C which used to be mine and psychoberts has two of them. It's a great noise.

[petclub]

Silverback, I second that! I last heard it when Simon had it, but it was good!

[V8Smith]

As far as I know, its a straight through exhaust but they pad around the pipe with something??? which gives the same throaty noise of the straight thru but gives it a better sound due to the resonance, Im told.............?

Mike

[ferlin]

Have a look here...
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[hengti]

yep - all of the above
anyone who was anyone had one of these in the 80's - from minis to SD1s

also some form of incendiary device that American schoolchildren (apparently) use to blow up school loos

[FAT MATT]

Hands up if your thinking -

"I wounder if it's possible to fit side pipes like a tuscan racer?"

Hmmmmmmm?

[jonnylayze]

GreenV8S said:

It's a brand of exhaust silencer, they usually come painted bright red.

they certainly do! - my brother had one intended as a centre-section fitted as a tailpipe on an old Polo Coupe he used to use for road rallying (as well as being an everyday car). At the end of a stage you could usually hear him coming from about 2-3 miles away

The down side was that at that time it was his only car and a journey from London back to Somerset down the M3/A303 gave us both a massive head ache to the point of felling sick. It certainly pepped up the standard 1300cc VW noise though

[F908 Tim]

.....and daft enough to admit it!