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Old Oct 22, 2003 | 09:43 PM
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Can anyone recommend a muffler that will cause people to take notice when they hear my 1980 Corvette coming down the road?
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Old Oct 22, 2003 | 09:55 PM
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Dynomax Bullets will do that. :yesnod:

:cheers:
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Old Oct 22, 2003 | 09:58 PM
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:lurk: i need to know as well
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Old Oct 22, 2003 | 10:06 PM
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Run headers, 2.5" mendrel bent pipes without H-pipe, and 40series original flowmasters.
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Old Oct 22, 2003 | 10:17 PM
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2 words....SIDE PIPES!
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Old Oct 22, 2003 | 10:38 PM
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I am running 2.5 inch pipes without the H pipe into 40's and it ain't loud enough!

Find another solution.
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Old Oct 22, 2003 | 10:48 PM
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Magna Flow. More canoochies than FM's.
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Old Oct 22, 2003 | 10:53 PM
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Mufflers? What are those?
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CHAMBERED!!! :yesnod: :cheers:
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Old Oct 22, 2003 | 11:33 PM
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Moroso Spiral Flows, they just pretend to be mufflers. :D


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Old Oct 23, 2003 | 12:46 AM
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Magna Flow. More canoochies than FM's.
I set off car alarms, before I installed my H-pipe... best flow as well. :iagree: :yesnod:
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Old Oct 23, 2003 | 01:43 AM
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HOOKER SUPER COMP!!
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Old Oct 23, 2003 | 02:07 AM
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Default Re: Wanted: Loud Mufflers (madvette74)

Sidepipes would definitely be the method of choice, but if you want mufflers, and if you want extremely cheap, KBD Targas, (sold under a few different names/brands) worked great for me. Basically open tubes with some damping area around the outside. See the muffler section of most Vette part Dealers.

The 4 upward-pointing chrome tips are great :D
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Old Oct 23, 2003 | 02:18 AM
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My supertrapps are loud. Scaled up motorcycle "mufflers."
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Old Oct 23, 2003 | 08:37 AM
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Default Re: Wanted: Loud Mufflers (VETDRMS)

Dynomax Bullets will do that. :yesnod:

:cheers:
:iagree: I run these mufflers. When the wife told me she could hear me coming from a mile away, I knew I scored the right ones. They don't have the interior resonance that the Flows do. Also, every hotrodder and his granny have Flows. It's nice to hear non-Flowmaster exhaust....be different...

Brett :thumbs:
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Old Oct 23, 2003 | 10:08 AM
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Default Re: Wanted: Loud Mufflers (MRKearney)

I get compliments on the sound of my car. It rumbles at idle and howls under WOT:

Jet-Hot Heddman headers
2.5" aluminized - custom bent system
2.5" H-pipe just aft of the trans x-member
Dynomax Super Turbos

No regrets.
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Old Oct 23, 2003 | 10:44 AM
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:iagree:

Same setup I have.
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Old Oct 23, 2003 | 10:55 AM
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Default Re: Wanted: Loud Mufflers (TedH)

I get compliments on the sound of my car. It rumbles at idle and howls under WOT:

Jet-Hot Heddman headers
2.5" aluminized - custom bent system
2.5" H-pipe just aft of the trans x-member
Dynomax Super Turbos

No regrets.
super turbos aren't loud at all :nonod:
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Old Oct 23, 2003 | 12:38 PM
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Default Re: Wanted: Loud Mufflers (Metal Wulf)

I have Magnaflow SS and they are not too bad at idle and cruise in 4th but wide open at 5500RPM on a chassis dyno I almost put my fingers in my ears.... but you know I wouldn't do that

Oh yeah you can roll a golf ball right thru these babies.:lol:


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Old Oct 23, 2003 | 01:03 PM
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Default Re: Wanted: Loud Mufflers (MotorHead)

Vortec stainless steel packed 3 inch in and out. It's a welded box type race muffler that your can see light through. Sold at Mienike mufflers for about $130 each.

I ended up installing a 3 inch diameter ovalled H pipe near the diff to make it somewhat quieter. at idle and cruise they are OK, but at WOT they can be heard from a long way away.
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