too loud?
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Melting Slicks
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From: Deltona (son of Deland and DAYTONA) FL
too loud?
In the past I've told you my car has set off car alarms. Men and boys gawk, women and little girls get scared when I start it in a parking 
lot
Here's 2 more: last night a lady at phone booth frantically looking around for the monster she thinks is about to bite her (from the look on her face) when I started the car.
This morning a toll booth worker plugged her ears with her fingers as I COASTED into the lane. I'm assuming she was getting ready for my departure
Last week,a guy I work with heard me leaving all the way across our college campus and tells me so over our 2 way radios. I was 1/2 mile away at an intersection and I say over the radio" listen to this". I un-key the radio mic and rev the motor a few times. He radios me back laughing like crazy saying " You'd better get cutouts better mufflers for the street!"
lotHere's 2 more: last night a lady at phone booth frantically looking around for the monster she thinks is about to bite her (from the look on her face) when I started the car.
This morning a toll booth worker plugged her ears with her fingers as I COASTED into the lane. I'm assuming she was getting ready for my departure
Last week,a guy I work with heard me leaving all the way across our college campus and tells me so over our 2 way radios. I was 1/2 mile away at an intersection and I say over the radio" listen to this". I un-key the radio mic and rev the motor a few times. He radios me back laughing like crazy saying " You'd better get cutouts better mufflers for the street!"
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I am getting quieter mufflers and electric cutouts, mine's been loud for long enough, every time I increased the HP it got louder 
Burning Brakes
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From: SF East Bay CA
How loud is too loud? after all the alarms, etc are going off... 
Seriously, the only time I ever thought mine was too loud was before I put my spiral baffles in the pipes. Open headers was a bit too loud for the street.
Seriously, the only time I ever thought mine was too loud was before I put my spiral baffles in the pipes. Open headers was a bit too loud for the street.
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Melting Slicks
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From: Deltona (son of Deland and DAYTONA) FL
Originally Posted by GrandSportC3
Too loud??
You aren't even close to half the noise that I'm making...
You aren't even close to half the noise that I'm making...
I could barely hear the Harley next to me this morning. I know, in your car you CAN'T hear the Harley!
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From: Nice Lake Ontario
There's loud as in no mufflers but when you hear an LS-7 poppin those 12.5s-1 out an open header Then you know what loud is 
Seriously thou there's a time & place for everything & an overly loud exhaust does nothing to help our image
Then you know what loud is Seriously thou there's a time & place for everything & an overly loud exhaust does nothing to help our image
Melting Slicks
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From: Boulder Creek California
Originally Posted by GrandSportC3
I wish that there would be mufflers that wouldn't cause backpressure and horsepower loss...
Just this morning one of my coworkers told me he could hear me coming from Apex (maybe not, that's 20+ miles away) That across campus call is a good one!
I set off my first car alarms when I added Ecklers' "Targa" non-mufflers on the otherwise stock exhaust. Now the air travels through a 750 BG, Performer, Sportsman 2s, 9.5 CR cylinders, back out Sportsman 2s, Hookers, custom 2.5" pipes, and Flowmaster 50s with the sole purpose of rattling the hell out of every alarm-equipped car in the parking lot.
-Chris
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From: Home of WILD TURKEY
in the same boat here ( no pun intended), I love the look I have with no mufflers showing but way too loud (and I am running mufflers)... i'm going to try Flowmaster's Deltaflow muffler... Anyone got a set on there's???
Last edited by THE ROOSTER; Mar 18, 2005 at 10:13 PM.