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Old Jul 16, 2006 | 05:27 PM
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what is the loudest muffler that you guys have used on your small blocks?
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Old Jul 16, 2006 | 06:06 PM
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ZZ4 crate engine with Flowmaster 40 series mufflers. Put 454 back in car switched to Magnaflows from Corvette Central.
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Old Jul 17, 2006 | 12:15 PM
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Originally Posted by ethanm
what is the loudest muffler that you guys have used on your small blocks?
NONE....
However the cheap Monza mufflers (ok resonators not really mufflers) sound fantastic on my 76 without cats etc..

My 79 has the undercar Chambered Exhaust system and it was too loud for me...had to stick a set of Flowmasters on the end ....also no cats

My 72 is running plain old Flowmasters and I do not
really like the sound...too "TIN" like...

I have swapped exhaust systems from car to car more then a few times...and to be honest its pretty confusing
because the cars all sound very different..take the Monza off the 76 and put them on the 79 you would think the 79 would sound pretty much like the 76....NOT.

Hows that for an answer.. ! not much help at all I know but on my 3 individual C3's thats the only answer I can give..

Bob G.
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Old Jul 17, 2006 | 12:48 PM
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Whatever brand of 4 muffler chambered exhaust Wilcox sold about 4 years ago. Even at idle, slightly quieter than open exhaust. My wife could hear me shifting normally through the gears from the traffic light .7 of a mile from our house.

Much louder than the system I got afterwards from Allen's.
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