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Title: What is the best way to quiet a gen air intake?
Post by: bruceknee on October 15, 2006, 03:36:18 PM
There is nothing attached to my intake and  it is loud. I fabricated a filter housing but it did not quiet it down at all.
Title: Re: What is the best way to quiet a gen air intake?
Post by: DrivingMissLazy on October 15, 2006, 05:22:40 PM
The air flow needs to be bent twice at 90 degrees.
Richard

Quote from: bruceknee on October 15, 2006, 03:36:18 PM
There is nothing attached to my intake and  it is loud. I fabricated a filter housing but it did not quiet it down at all.
Title: Re: What is the best way to quiet a gen air intake?
Post by: boogiethecat on October 15, 2006, 05:28:17 PM
And you can always stick a regular muffler on the intake. As long as it's big enough to not restrict it will work well.
I usually use two donaldson style air filters in series, that helps a lot too, of course my application is in some nasty dust
so the two filters are necessary for me. I use a 4" one for filter #1 and a 2" for #2.  Dust doesn't get thru and it quiets it right down...
Title: Re: What is the best way to quiet a gen air intake?
Post by: Kristinsgrandpa on October 15, 2006, 05:34:23 PM
These people have some info on types of material for construction.

http://www.soundproofing.org/infopages/generator.htm

I heard the same thing that Richard posted, 2 90 deg bends but I'll probably use Gary's approach since I have a couple of mufflers lying around. (I know this works because I held a muffler in front of my air intake and it was great)

Ed