No. I went through the loud muffler phase when I was a teenager, but I quickly decided I didn't need yet another reason for the cops to stop me. Then I studied gas dynamics in college and learned that loud mufflers don't necessarily equal more power either.

Turns out that flow and lots of noise are very often mutually contradictory objectives. In other words, well designed quiet mufflers often flow better than loud straight through mufflers because they remove the turbulence (noise) from the flow. Other factors equal, gas flow is maximized when turbulence (noise) is minimized.

Of course other factors aren't always equal. It is possible to make a quiet muffler with poor flow characteristics. Chevy didn't make that mistake with the C6, though. Tuned open pipes can also make use of the natural turbulence of the engine exhaust pulses to scavenge the gases. This is why headers work. But tuning past the exhaust collector has little effect on power in a street car, ie you can't run a tuned stinger on a street car without attracting the immediate attention of the cops.

On my hotrods, I used to run the biggest Caddy mufflers I could find. That made more power than running glasspacks or "turbo" mufflers, and attracted a lot less attention from the cops than straight pipes. I've always been more interested in actual "go fast" rather than the poser "sounds fast" anyway.

 

The 442 had Caddy mufflers

 

seems? Thats why I went the B&Bs.
High performance car with high restriction exhaust? Its not the only thing I don't understand about the C6 build. All the 'wrongs' I can fix with a little bit of dough.

 

Ahh..much better.

 

Did the same thing to the GHL install thread pictures too.

 

Mr Google is your friend:

http://patft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-...&OS=ghl&RS=ghl

 

[QUOTE=xs650]Mr Google is your friend:

Very good ! I neeeded a good chuckle Now all we need is a Mr Google stuffed animal.

 

Reading the patent ................... or, "Why I never finished law school."

 

Shopdog = best poster ever ALWAYS getting good scoop from him.. thanks

 

You should be doing this You apparently didn't really read Shopdog's post on how restrictive it isn't.

 

So stock exhaust with headers would be the least restrictive in your opinion?...

 

[QUOTE=corvette pilot]easiest way is to get the microsoft power toy 'image resizer' It will allow you to right click on any picture to resize.[/QUOTE

Inside of mufflers are just fascinating, but thanks for the tip. Just dowloaded the "image resizer".

 

another subject for the C6 parts folder!! Got to save these pics!!

BC

 

My solution was a Chrysler Imperial muffler. Hot Rod Mag ran a good article on mufflers with backpressure numbers and dyno reults back in the olden daze. The big Chrysler muffler beat all the go-fast aftermarket mufflers for power. I don't remember if the also tested the Cad muffler but would expect similar results for similar reasons.

 

xs650, that's what we ought to do. Weld a Chrysler Imperial muffler to each side of the Vette.

 

Another use for JB Weld

 

So you were the one who farted on the elevator. Listen to him grasshopper, for the man seems to know of what he speaks.

We lit farts in my frat too.

I hear ya. ...........or do I?

 

Well I'll be Beans ? And here we all thought shopdog was a meat and potatos kind of guy.

 

DSOM Z51, I think you really lit the fuse ................. Speaking of which, there was a guy in our house that did just that. He set more than his fart on fire.

 

Thanks. Been a little too straight laced around here lately. Someone needed to break the ice..........or is that cut the cheese.