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Old Jul 22, 2012 | 12:21 AM
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I have a 1994 with the 300 inline six.I know this question has been ask a blue million times. I'm looking at taking my glass packs off and going with a muffler. But I'm running true dual. I'm looking for a good cheap good sounding. Do i need to go with a one two out. Or to save little more money and get two in and two out. Im looking at a trush turbo. Or will there be a sound difference with two out two in vs the other. I plan doing this my self.
 
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Old Jul 22, 2012 | 01:04 PM
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im not sure but let me know how it going ive been look in too turbo style mufflers for a while... im getting kinda tired of the flowmaster 40 i have on my truck.
 
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Old Jul 23, 2012 | 10:42 PM
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There are youtube videos of the 300 with thrush muffler on it. But its hard to tell what it sounds like. I did have a what the guy call a mello tone, but i dont know if he was talking bout the sound of it or if that was a brand. It sounded really good with it with a 3in inlet and two 2.5in outlet. I would like to find that kind of muffler. I cut the tail pipes off to see what the glasspacks would sound like and it sounds like a big farmhall tractor and it dont have that racey sound to it. I'm going to talk to the muffler shop and see what they would think it would sound the best with out paying a bunch of money.
 
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Old Jul 24, 2012 | 01:43 PM
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Please post what you decided and why. I am looking to run a header and also want a try dual exhuast
 
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Old Jul 25, 2012 | 01:01 PM
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Goofy11289, Are you running a carbed or EFI 300?
 
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Old Jul 25, 2012 | 01:07 PM
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The biggest issue I have with the 300 exhaust tone, is it is very difficult to find a good muffler that gives the 300 a good tone. I did some research on the internet, during the muscle car era a lot of people ran Glasspacks and apparently it gave them a very mean and aggressive tone. I decided to try that out on my rig, and it sounds terrible. My truck sounds like a 2000s Ranger with those huge coffee can exhaust tips. (By the way, My truck has a carbed 300)

The only problem is on my rig and other 300 rigs I've checked out on YouTube is that most of them sound pretty Fart Can-ish (like those japaneese import cars teenagers run).

Are there ANY mufflers that give the 300 an aggressive and louder tone to it, either running singles or duals?

I've tried a Thrush Turbo muffler, but for me it was too quiet at idle and hurt my ears due to the sound wave pressure when I got up to around 2000 rpm
 

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Old Jul 25, 2012 | 03:26 PM
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Xenthrax, the plan I have is to run header with dual exhaust. This setup will come off the head with enough pipe to get the mufflers behind the cab and then maybe couple of curved peices
 
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Old Jul 25, 2012 | 03:27 PM
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I almost forgot I will be running at least a 2 bbl carb
 
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Old Jul 28, 2012 | 04:25 AM
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Xenthrax, Did that thrust turbo sound good as far as going down the road. I'm not to much worried bout it being quite idling. I'm looking for something that sounds good going down the rd and when i get on it. And i agree the 300 sounds like a fart in a tin can with glasspacks.
 
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Old Aug 14, 2012 | 10:14 AM
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One in two out flowmaster 2 chamber oringinal 40 is as good as it gets.
 
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Old Aug 14, 2012 | 12:35 PM
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Originally Posted by ford303
I have a 1994 with the 300 inline six.I know this question has been ask a blue million times. I'm looking at taking my glass packs off and going with a muffler. But I'm running true dual. I'm looking for a good cheap good sounding. Do i need to go with a one two out. Or to save little more money and get two in and two out. Im looking at a trush turbo. Or will there be a sound difference with two out two in vs the other. I plan doing this my self.
This doesn't make any sence, true dual would be 2 pipes all the way back from the engine, that what ya got?

If so the real change in tone would be to combine them or if not practical to add a crossover. In either case one muffler will sound better, more tailpipe the better and in my oppinion glass type LARGE canister mufflers sound better then chamber type.
 
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Old Aug 14, 2012 | 01:29 PM
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As for making the engine breath better would it not be better to run two pipes all the way with dual high flow cats and mufflers?
 
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Old Aug 14, 2012 | 01:47 PM
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As for making the engine breath better would it not be better to run two pipes all the way with dual high flow cats and mufflers?
Not really, for power the ideal is 2 equal length long tube headers, a equal length Y-pipe and a big single. With that a single large high flow cat and NO muffler or large glasspack with a long large tailpipe would sound pretty good IMO. Works best if the Y-pipe is rather long 3'-4' shorter will be quiter, up to that length will make more power, more then that loses power. For quiter sound, fitment, ease of instal etc it can work well to use a 2 into 1 muffler as the merge for the Y-pipe this puts the muffler pretty far forward though and can often be hard to fit.

What kills the sound(makes it harsher) is the time between pulses, with 6 instead of 8 you already have fewer pulses farther apart, and duals splits that in half and keeps them contained in a smaller pipe. By running them together rather early in a larger pipe you merge the pulses better which cancels each other out making for a softer lower tone.
 
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Old Aug 14, 2012 | 01:47 PM
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Originally Posted by Goofy1129
As for making the engine breath better would it not be better to run two pipes all the way with dual high flow cats and mufflers?
If you had a 350+ racing motor then prolly so
 
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Old Aug 14, 2012 | 01:53 PM
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A ford 300 will never sound like a 327 small block chevy period. It make 3 different sounds. You can make it quite. You can make it sound like a john dear or you can make it sound like a peterbuilt
 
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