Exhaust Suggestions
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Exhaust Suggestions
Hello all, thinking of redoing my rusted out exhaust from behind the cats back. I want a mild not too loud grumble. Nothing crazy. Im doing single pipe the whole way. Not a fan of duals. I've been quoted 130 for all tubing installed. I have to provide the muffler though. Need a suggestion. Anyone use jones before? On a budget here. I was thinking all else fails I'm going Cherry Bomb pro.
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The summit racing street & strip muffler is pretty good. It sounds like a flowmaster 40 series and is under $30. I've got them on my truck and they sound good behind my 351w. Not real loud without cats but I'm sure it'll be real mild with them.
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I'd be very interested in the difference you get in putting in a glass pack and leaving the cats in place. I am considering something similar with my 302. I think I read somewhere that a longer glass pack gives you more of a low growl where a shorter glass pack gives you more volume while accelerating, is this true?
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With the stock cats, I bet you could get away with straight pipe. It won't be loud, and they probably won't care. If they do, get an 18 inch glasspack. Get one that is a larger fatter body. It'll sound deeper. A really long glasspack usually sounds great, but with the stock cats muffling it so much already, it may be too mellow.
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If you look inside the glasspacks(the tube style) there are little louvers designed to pull some I the exhaust to the outside of the muffler to "muffle" it. Well if you turn it around and install it backwards the louvers don't do anything and it acts just like a piece of pipe.... And "technically" there is a muffler there for your inspections lol
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i run cherry bomb turbos. up here theyre $20 a piece. theyre pretty quiet at first. but they sounds pretty much the same as glasspacks. i have duels on both my trucks. with no cats. my 6cyl has 1 3/4" i think. and my v8 has 2 3/4"
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I'm not really a fan of cherry bomb's glass packs. I don't think they sound very good. and I've only heard one of their "mufflers", and I think it was the extreme behind an otherwise stock 302 without cats and I thought it sounded like a fart in a rain gutter. But maybe that's just me.
For the most part you get what you pay for. The flowmaster on my truck is almost 15 years old and is just barely getting rust on the surface of it, and in wisconsin, it's odd for exhaust parts to last that long, but for $70 for a new one, is it worth it? I don't know. But I'd rather replace a part once and be done with it, than have to redo my exhaust every couple of years.
For the most part you get what you pay for. The flowmaster on my truck is almost 15 years old and is just barely getting rust on the surface of it, and in wisconsin, it's odd for exhaust parts to last that long, but for $70 for a new one, is it worth it? I don't know. But I'd rather replace a part once and be done with it, than have to redo my exhaust every couple of years.
