Wanted: Loud Mufflers
Oct 22, 2003 | 09:43 PM
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Wanted: Loud Mufflers
Can anyone recommend a muffler that will cause people to take notice when they hear my 1980 Corvette coming down the road?
Oct 22, 2003 | 09:55 PM
Melting Slicks
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Re: Wanted: Loud Mufflers (MRKearney)
Dynomax Bullets will do that. :yesnod:
:cheers:
Oct 22, 2003 | 09:58 PM
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From: Galloway NJ
Re: Wanted: Loud Mufflers (VETDRMS)
:lurk: i need to know as well
Oct 22, 2003 | 10:06 PM
Burning Brakes
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From: CT
Re: Wanted: Loud Mufflers (Metal Wulf)
Run headers, 2.5" mendrel bent pipes without H-pipe, and 40series original flowmasters.
Oct 22, 2003 | 10:17 PM
Team Owner
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Re: Wanted: Loud Mufflers (MRKearney)
2 words....SIDE PIPES!
Oct 22, 2003 | 10:38 PM
Racer
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From: Raleigh NC
Re: Wanted: Loud Mufflers (Redshark6974)
I am running 2.5 inch pipes without the H pipe into 40's and it ain't loud enough!
Find another solution.
Oct 22, 2003 | 10:48 PM
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Re: Wanted: Loud Mufflers (MRKearney)
Magna Flow. More canoochies than FM's.
Oct 22, 2003 | 10:53 PM
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Re: Wanted: Loud Mufflers (MRKearney)
Mufflers? What are those?
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Oct 22, 2003 | 10:53 PM
Burning Brakes
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Re: Wanted: Loud Mufflers (MRKearney)
CHAMBERED!!! :yesnod: :cheers:
Oct 22, 2003 | 11:33 PM
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Re: Wanted: Loud Mufflers (DP77Vette)
Moroso Spiral Flows, they just pretend to be mufflers. :D
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Oct 23, 2003 | 12:46 AM
Burning Brakes
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Re: Wanted: Loud Mufflers (FERL 73)
Quote:
Magna Flow. More canoochies than FM's.
I set off car alarms, before I installed my H-pipe... best flow as well. :iagree: :yesnod:
Oct 23, 2003 | 01:43 AM
Burning Brakes
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Re: Wanted: Loud Mufflers (MRKearney)
HOOKER SUPER COMP!!
Oct 23, 2003 | 02:07 AM
Melting Slicks
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From: Boulder Creek California
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
Oct 23, 2003 | 02:18 AM
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Re: Wanted: Loud Mufflers (MRKearney)
My supertrapps are loud. Scaled up motorcycle "mufflers."
Oct 23, 2003 | 08:37 AM
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Re: Wanted: Loud Mufflers (VETDRMS)
Quote:
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:
Oct 23, 2003 | 10:08 AM
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From: Tampa Bay FL
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.
Oct 23, 2003 | 10:44 AM
Racer
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From: Katy TX
Re: Wanted: Loud Mufflers (MRKearney)
:iagree:
Same setup I have.
Oct 23, 2003 | 10:55 AM
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From: Galloway NJ
Re: Wanted: Loud Mufflers (TedH)
Quote:
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:
Oct 23, 2003 | 12:38 PM
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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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Oct 23, 2003 | 01:03 PM
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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.