I know it's a bit late now but I have the DeltaFlow 50's with true dual exhaust and H-pipe. Frankly, I'm not sure if I like the sound or not. Sometimes I think they sound great and other times I'm not so sure.

At any rate, it may take some ingenuity to get them to fit like stock as they are a slightly larger muffler. Are you doing the work yourself? I installed the duals and then drove to a shop without the mufflers on and had them welded in place. Had to cut some metal off the inlet and outlet of the mufflers but it didn't make much difference because we cut the pipes so they weren't sticking inside the muffler. Managed to get them up there fairly close to stock.

Let us know how it turns out.

 

It seams that a reoccuring comment is that people would love to hear the Muffler sounds... I am wondering if people could record there car's sound and we could collect them all with detailed specs so that people could make there choice based on sounds and not descriptions of sounds :-).

I would be willing to host the sounds (after converting them to MP3s).
I know that there are CDs out there that you can get, but why not have the real sounds from C3s...

Just my $.02

 

Cool How would I go about recording it ??>

 

There is a request for this to be done at the Cruise-In but that isn't until the end of May. I could record mine but I would have to record it on tape and then play it back and record it on the computer since I don't have a laptop and the computer is too far away from the garage. My experience with the tape to computer method has taught me that I need a better system for recording. :D The sound quality sucks!! and I don't have any better way of doing it. Believe me, I've thought about it many times but the sound quality is just terrible. I'll try to find someone with a laptop and see what I can do in the future though.

 

Once I get mine on, I will use my Samsung Yepp MP3 player with built in recorder to get the file. I havent tried it yet, but its digital, so it should at least sound pretty good.

 

I am not sure about how to record... I guess since I have a few Laptops I did not really give the HOW part much thought. So here goes.

The tape method is one way.. But ya the quality will probally be kinda low. It all depends on the quality of the microphone you are using. If it is a built in one in a stereo it will probally be crappy quality. If you can use an external mic it will probally sound a bit better. It also depends on the equipment that you are using (quality of Tape recorder, quality of Tape).
You also have to worry about recording into the PC. Make sure you use high quailty cables and high quality equipment to help keep the noise down.

The portable MP3 player option sounds like it will be cool. Other options are Mini Discs, or anyother portable device that is able to record.

A last ditch attempt is to temportally move your PC to the Garage. (Or move the Vette to the Office :D). This will probally give you the best quality since you are going right into the PC and if you have a good mic you can play with it as you are doing it. The cruse in might be a great place to get sounds (although it is 112 days away), Sombody could just walk around with a nice mic and a laptop and record all the rumblings...

That is all I can think of for now. I will experment tonight on trying to get a better quality sound from the Tape option. I will let you all know how I do.

 

I have a video of my car starting up, with crappy sound. It was taken in the mall last summer, after our car show.
Let me know, and I could email it to you guys.
It has stock manifolds & front y-pipe, converter test pipe, 2.5" rear y-pipe and 40 Series Flowmasters.

 

How large is the file?

 

Yeah,
That would be great, PLEASE SEND it.

VetteBoy79@aol.com

 

VetteBoy1979- You have mail!

It will barely fit on a 3.5 floppy. (1343 kb)

15 seconds of video.

When the camera turns in, that is not the car in the background you hear. It is my car slowly stalling out. Then I re-start it an rev the engine a few times.


[Modified by JohnS_77, 3:54 PM 1/30/2002]

 

Sure, send the file.

I'll e-mail my address to you.

 

Go to flowmasters site. They have recording of each series. Granted they aren't on corvettes but still sound nice.
http://www.flowmastermufflers.com/web10/indexf5.html