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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.25in"><b><font size="3" face="Garamond"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;font-weight:bold">Hi All:<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.25in"><b><font size="3" face="Garamond"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;font-weight:bold"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></b></p>
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<li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo3"><b><font size="3" face="Garamond"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;font-weight:bold">The shop outsourced the new muffler to a local shop.   It is
<i><u><span style="font-style:italic">extremely</span></u></i> loud and sounds ridiculous.  I’ll go with a stock stainless system I can get from the UK (unless someone has one here in the US).  But before I go through all that, how quiet is a stainless exhaust
 on this car?  Anybody have a really quiet exhaust on their P6 and, if so, where’d they get it?<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></li></ul>
<p class="MsoListParagraph"><b><font size="3" face="Garamond"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;font-weight:bold"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></b></p>
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<li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo3"><b><font size="3" face="Garamond"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;font-weight:bold">The throttle takes several seconds to drop back down to idle.  Shop blamed
 the throttle set up, but what’s the solution?<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></li></ul>
<p class="MsoListParagraph"><b><font size="3" color="#993366" face="Garamond"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;color:#993366;font-weight:bold"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></b></p>
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<li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo3"><b><font size="3" face="Garamond"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;font-weight:bold">An earlier “repair” shop had wrecked my bonnet.   The new shop installed
 the wrong replacement it sourced from Florida so I sourced one (with two “bumps”) from someone here on the list.  I believe it’s the correct one. 
<span style="background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">See attached photo.</span>  <o:p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><font size="3" face="Garamond"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;font-weight:bold">However, I also tossed out the stock black “egg crate” grill (which looks terrible) and replaced it
 with the earlier chrome one.  (Is that the one called “the sharktooth” one?).  Problem is that there is a bit of a gap between the bonnet and the grill.  Any ideas?<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><font size="3" face="Garamond"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;font-weight:bold"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><font size="3" face="Garamond"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;font-weight:bold">Thanks<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><font size="3" face="Garamond"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;font-weight:bold">Bob
<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="1" color="black" face="Calibri"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><font size="1" color="black" face="Sitka Text"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Sitka Text";font-variant:small-caps;color:black;font-weight:bold">ROBERT E. RUGGERI<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><font size="1" color="black" face="Garamond"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;color:black;font-weight:bold">1846 Union Street</span></font></b><font size="1" color="black"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><font size="1" color="black" face="Garamond"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;color:black;font-weight:bold">Niskayuna, NY 12309</span></font></b><font size="1" color="black"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><font size="1" color="black" face="Garamond"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;color:black;font-weight:bold">Tel:  518.423.9755</span></font></b><font size="1" color="black"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><font size="1" color="black" face="Garamond"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;color:black;font-weight:bold">Fax: 518.377.4646</span></font></b><font size="1" color="black"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><u><font size="1" color="#5e327c" face="Garamond"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;color:#5E327C;font-weight:bold"><a href="mailto:robert.ruggeri.esq@outlook.com">robert.ruggeri.esq@outlook.com</a></span></font></u></b><b><font size="3" face="Garamond"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;font-weight:bold">
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