Exhaust system?
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Postmaster
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From: Clarksville,Tn
Exhaust system?
As most of you know I'm building a 78 LWB 302 model for my kid. I'm in limbo on whether or to run mufflers. I plan on straight duals out the back and also removing the cat convertor as well.
What's you guy running?
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Mitch
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Mitch
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From: Tooele, UT
I have true duals on mine with some mufflers I got off a junk truck and its plenty loud the pipes come out before the rear tires through 45 degree tips off the same junk truck. Im not sure what type the mufflers are but sound really good and was told they were flowmasters. I looked on em and there wasnt a stamp that said flowmaster on either one. If ya want really loud then ya could get some cheapos and cut em in half and take out the guts and weld em back together and if a cop pulls ya over then ya tell him that theyre just real loud mufflers and tell him to look at em to prove if he dont believe ya.
Laughing Gas
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From: southwest Wisconsin
Put mufflers on it for sure, you don't want your kid getting pulled over all the time. I wouldn't go any bigger than 2 1/4" for a 302. "Turbo" style performance mufflers sound pretty good, I have true dual glass packs on my 76, neat "old school" sound.
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Postmaster
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From: Clarksville,Tn
Thanks for the post; I'm running 40 series flowmaster's on my 65 with a Hi-po 302, have tips coming right out in front of rear tires. I plan on running her's straight out the back on both sides of the gastank under rear bumper, with oversize chrome tips. So glasspacks don't baffle to much, when you let off the gas? My 40 series are right under the seat and my wife thinks its to loud (I must agree). If I go with flowmasters I will probably use 50 series. I would like to hear how Turbo style sounds as well.
Mitch
Mitch
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From: Prairieville, La
i agree with cherry bombs.i currently have straight out the back with no mufflers or cats. it is very loud. i have to think about the time of day or night to not tick off the neighbors.the police stopped me the other day when i moved it for gustav.i thought they were going to impound it and make it a doughnut cop chaser,cause it matches their cars.
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Im leaning towards Flowmaster 70's (or something like those) for my 429. I dont want a bunch of exhaust noise drownding out the tire squeeling. hehe
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The cut up ones probly aint too good of an idea for a bigger city but if your out in the country or in a small town then I say go for it cause cops might not care so much out in the country.
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I'm runnin' true duals with Cherry Bomb glasspacks and some short pipes droppin' out of chrome 'turn down' tips...........& I don't mean like "turn down that noise" either .............lol
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From: Goliad, Texas
if you do run straight pipes don't let your daughter drive around with mufflers for a long time and then just switch right over to straights. like they said you don't want your daughter to get pulled over. even tho I don't think they'd pull over a girl for a loud truck!?!
my 300 has no cat and the old style Flowmaster dumped in front of the axle. it's loud for being a 6. thinking of saving up money for a 4bbl intake and carb with split headers and true duals (8" cherry bombs). that 300 would really sound good then.
dak, 44" glasspacks!!!!! you know that the shorter the louder right? I thought my friend's 26" cherry bomb was about as big as they get.
I know in my town there are a couple of illegal trucks. a hemi, 12 glasspack stopping before the cab w/o a turndown. a cutout on a 04 F150.
as we speak my buddy is getting a 12" imco glasspack on his 97 F150 5.4, and my other buddy is getting true dual 8" cherrybombs on his 02 chevy 1500 5.3
my 300 has no cat and the old style Flowmaster dumped in front of the axle. it's loud for being a 6. thinking of saving up money for a 4bbl intake and carb with split headers and true duals (8" cherry bombs). that 300 would really sound good then.
dak, 44" glasspacks!!!!! you know that the shorter the louder right? I thought my friend's 26" cherry bomb was about as big as they get.
I know in my town there are a couple of illegal trucks. a hemi, 12 glasspack stopping before the cab w/o a turndown. a cutout on a 04 F150.
as we speak my buddy is getting a 12" imco glasspack on his 97 F150 5.4, and my other buddy is getting true dual 8" cherrybombs on his 02 chevy 1500 5.3
MSEE
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From: Austin, TX
I went with turbos last spring when I did my exhaust. I was going to go with glasspacks originally, but I decided not to because I didn't want to annoy my neighbors when I leave at night. I really like the sound. This is on a straight 6 with headers, so it has a really unique sound. It has a nice quiet hum in the cab, a throaty idle, and a really sharp rap to it when you get on the gas. I think the next time I spend that kind of money, I'll go with something louder, but I was not disappointed at all.