I'm getting a 87 F150 with a 302 next week, and I was reading alot of posts, I noticed you guys either like glasspacks or Flowmasters. I had a glasspack on one of my older cars, granted it was only a V6, but I thought it was too quiet(I could barely hear it), sounded like ***, and I didn't like the snap I got when I floored it then let off. Flowmasters aren't the greatest things for flow, and it seems like everybody has them. I was wondering if any of you guys ran straight pipes? I had straight pipe on my T-Bird and it wasn't very loud at all, I was wondering if it would be the same with a 150?

I was just going to keep the stock exhaust almost all the way to the back, grind the muffler off, then get a muffler shop to bend me a y-pipe so I could run straight pipe fake dual with some nice tips out the back.

 

Nidex, straight pipes with no mufflers are a bit harsh for me. If you want something loud, consider a single chamber Flowmaster or Imco muffler, and then run the dual pipes out the back. These mufflers have very good flow and will tone it down slightly.

 

I just put a straight pipe on my 351w in me E150. It's nice and deep, loud too... The only issue I have is it gets raspy above 4k rpms.

 

Glasspacks enhance certain high pitched sound while getting rid of others, straight pipes will still have the raspyness to it when you let off.