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Originally posted by oldnavy
If a 110hp VW TDI is quite with no muffler, or my neighbor's turboDiesel Ford that no one notices any difference, then surely the 300D would be the same way.
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Funny thing was durring the conversation biodiesel came up, and he said at the moment he was running a 10% mix to clean fuel system. His brother who is a local farmer had put him on to B100 mixing for cleaning fuel systems and removing coking from pistons and rings. I was in hog heaven, to say the least. He also told me his brother and some other farmers are in the process of setting up a local plant to mfg biofuel.  That would be just too cool, I would get in on that Co-op in a heart beat if allowed. 
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Since these have TWO mufflers, the removal of ONE should do ZERO to increase sound, but would likely reduce at least some of the restriction. Most who say they've gone to straight pipes on these claims there is NO appreciable sound difference (turbo does most of the sound baffling as you stated.)
As for the BD, they CERTAINLY would let you "in" on the co-op if you helped them set it up, run it, X-port grease for it, etc., just tell them you're into BD and want to help them get the processor going and help run it, they WILL let you be part in that case.
We have a farmer here just outside of Boulder who is part of our group and let us use a 25x40 quanset for the processor and simple auto work (I'll still need a shop for the heavy stuff) just for trade for a percentage of the BD we make. Will be in there SOON, but not soon enough (still need to seal the cement floor and mount the end walls)!