Now, That's LOUD!!!
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From: Dixie - Tennessee
Yeah, I know, but I like it just like she is now. 
I cut that glasspack off last night. Now I have the two hollow converter cases releasing the exhaust right behind the passenger side door. It's plenty loud, and I love it! You just can't beat the way a straight-piped Ford V8 sounds.
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I cut that glasspack off last night. Now I have the two hollow converter cases releasing the exhaust right behind the passenger side door. It's plenty loud, and I love it! You just can't beat the way a straight-piped Ford V8 sounds.
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From: Prince George, B.C.
Did you weld pipe inside the center of the cases? You are doing no good for flow if they are just hollow, they are still muffling a bit that way as well.
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From: Dixie - Tennessee
No, I didn't think of that. Is it robbing any power? I thought that it might be after I first completed the project...
It's REALLY loud anyway at this point... There's really no need in getting it any louder.
'Tis all good.
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It's REALLY loud anyway at this point... There's really no need in getting it any louder.
'Tis all good.
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Not sure exactly how loud you are trying to go for, but cherrybombs are very loud. sounds like you just want open exhaust. let it exit right out of the manifolds :-). On my 1973 F100 with a 302 it has true dual exhaust, no cats, and two 33-series Ravin mufflers which sounds loud to everyone who hears the truck run
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From: Prince George, B.C.
It is screwing up the flow so yeah, you are probly losing some power. Putting pipe in them will also cut down on any drone that may be comming from them. I never bothered with the pipe in the cat on my minivan and you can really hear the drone.
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Thanks for the tip on the Cherry Bombs... I might try one later on down the road.
I can hear the "drone" in mine when I lay in it, but I kinda like it. It makes it sound like a Flowmaster which I put on for free. That's always a plus. I'll probably either cut them completely off or just weld pipe into them later. I'm tired of messing with them for now. lol.
As far as the flow goes, I can't see it being any worse as it was when the cats were still "packed"...
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I can hear the "drone" in mine when I lay in it, but I kinda like it. It makes it sound like a Flowmaster which I put on for free. That's always a plus. I'll probably either cut them completely off or just weld pipe into them later. I'm tired of messing with them for now. lol.
As far as the flow goes, I can't see it being any worse as it was when the cats were still "packed"...
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Wayta go guys with the loud exhaust? anyone set off car alarms? I pulled into a parking lot the other day and set off like 3. One Escalade, the owner came runnin out to see whats goin on.
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Originally Posted by nick88f150
Wayta go guys with the loud exhaust? anyone set off car alarms? I pulled into a parking lot the other day and set off like 3. One Escalade, the owner came runnin out to see whats goin on.
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I haven't set one off yet. I live in a small town... I don't think that anyone around here sets their car alarm VERY sensitive...
Although, I have found that a Wally-World buggy a little too close will often times do the trick!
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Although, I have found that a Wally-World buggy a little too close will often times do the trick!
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Dude...I did almost the same... but I just cut both cats instead of gutting them. What I did thugh (93 f-150 302), I went with a 3" single pipe and a single-chamber Flowmaster....now its loud, and deeeeeep. My neighbor, who is about 500 feet away, said she can hear my truck when i start it. I can be Idling in the parking lot, 600RPMS, and car alarms start beeping. Its funny as hell.
Now, I think its just a bit loud...lol, There are some pics of how i did it in my gallery.
Now, I think its just a bit loud...lol, There are some pics of how i did it in my gallery.
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I was kind of thinking today of cutting BOTH gutted converters off, running two pipes back across the transmission crossmember, joining them into a 3" Cherry Bomb Glasspack, then running 3" duals from there to the rear, splitting to each corner of the bumper at the back. I expect that to be pretty doggone loud.
I wish that I could do 4", just to give it more tone, but my local muffler shop told me that they didn't have a mendrel big enough to bend the 4" pipe. The biggest they could bend would be 3".
Now, on any glasspack, isn't it the more you drive it, the louder it gets? I was wondering about this...
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I wish that I could do 4", just to give it more tone, but my local muffler shop told me that they didn't have a mendrel big enough to bend the 4" pipe. The biggest they could bend would be 3".
Now, on any glasspack, isn't it the more you drive it, the louder it gets? I was wondering about this...
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Thanks for the tips, Kens64.
I'm still going to drive it like it is for awhile. I just change my mind alot on what to do with my truck, as ya'll can tell.
BTW, would 4" pipe be TOO big for a stock 5.0L?
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I'm still going to drive it like it is for awhile. I just change my mind alot on what to do with my truck, as ya'll can tell.
BTW, would 4" pipe be TOO big for a stock 5.0L?
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IMO, run 3-4' of the 4" after the mufflers and it would be DEEP sounding. Probably change the entire sound. I would not use 4" for the whole system. To heavy, too expensive. My truck had dual 4" IIRC after the glasspacks years ago, about 4' of it over the axle on each side. Wasnt loud due to the 24" packs, but it rattled the house windows at idle from the reverb caused by the big pipe. Got a lot of looks from people sitting next to me at the traffic lights.