flowtech warlock
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From: Coeur d alene, Id
not entirley true.. i have a cat and no muffler and it sounds good.. now if he cut it off before the cat then yes.. for sure. it would be loud.
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From: Wahpeton ND
I had an 85 with a pipe going from the manifold to a 4" stack in the bed. A drive of more then a mile or two involved earplugs. A cat may damppen the sound enough to be liveable. I like a vehicle that has a note and some exhaust noise but.........
By a SB chevy if you want to make alot of annoying noise. Keep your sound reasonable please. Its a truck, not a race car.
By a SB chevy if you want to make alot of annoying noise. Keep your sound reasonable please. Its a truck, not a race car.
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Fleet Mechanic
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From: Ohio
I had an 85 with a pipe going from the manifold to a 4" stack in the bed. A drive of more then a mile or two involved earplugs. A cat may damppen the sound enough to be liveable. I like a vehicle that has a note and some exhaust noise but.........
By a SB chevy if you want to make alot of annoying noise. Keep your sound reasonable please. Its a truck, not a race car.
By a SB chevy if you want to make alot of annoying noise. Keep your sound reasonable please. Its a truck, not a race car.
first off i will never buy a chevy engine. ford engines are just flat out better. and secondly a truck can be loud to me if you cant hear the engine then you dont have **** lol
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Joined: Sep 2005
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From: Brumley, MO
I've always heard loud is proud. There is a truck on youtube that is straight piped it's a 80-86 model, and the video is from the cab. It sounds awesome, but it is really loud. Look it up. My truck sounds pretty good with an exhaust leak LOL. I just wish the noise was coming out the back, and not the front. Personally I wish there was a muffler that had a straight pipe loud idle, but then mellowed out a lot when you give it gas. Six cylinders sound better at idle thats why I say that.
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Cargo Master
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From: Wahpeton ND
I hate loud pipes. I got packs on my 64 with a 292 and that is fine around town. On the interstate at 65 She is screeming. I want to hear a note but alot of guys just get retarded. Why oh why does every dink with a chebby have packs? Loud adds nothing to power. A 40 serries muffler sounds nice. So do the longer glasspacks. With or without a cat theese will give you a nice note and burbble but wont **** everyone off or ruin your hearing. I get sick of these straight piped or shattered out glasspack trucks driving around. To me it says this. My D@@@ aint big so I gota get attention another way.
You guys can pay the $200 tickets and not be able to drive at night. I am out of this argument.
You guys can pay the $200 tickets and not be able to drive at night. I am out of this argument.
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From: Brumley, MO
I'm not arguing I see where you are coming from flipkos. Sometimes I like loud sometimes I don't, depends on the truck. To each his own.
In most newer vehicles I've heard including the 06 Ford I used to have, Flowmasters are louder than everything except straight pipes cruising down the road unless you are doing 80 MPH then they quiet down, because they are so freakin loud, and drone so bad under 2000 RPM at least. Glasspacks get louder the higher your RPM so if you got an older vehicle with no OD glasspacks are probably louder than flows going down the road. I don't know why flowmasters are so freaking annoying under 2000 RPM, and then mellow out at faster speeds, but they do.
In most newer vehicles I've heard including the 06 Ford I used to have, Flowmasters are louder than everything except straight pipes cruising down the road unless you are doing 80 MPH then they quiet down, because they are so freakin loud, and drone so bad under 2000 RPM at least. Glasspacks get louder the higher your RPM so if you got an older vehicle with no OD glasspacks are probably louder than flows going down the road. I don't know why flowmasters are so freaking annoying under 2000 RPM, and then mellow out at faster speeds, but they do.
Tuned
Joined: Nov 2009
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From: Rochester
I've got two Thrush welded mufflers on my 86 right now and I think it sounds pretty good. Got a good deep idle to it and still has a pretty good rumble when you get on it. Not to loud but then not quiet. I had 2 I wanna say 30inch glass packs on it. Sounded good at idle but when you got on it, it sounded like as my brother would say "A Toyota race car"! As for you tires being noisy in the future for your next set take a look at the Goodyear Wrangler Duratrac. I have those on my truck right now 33x12.50's. Got an aggressive tread remind me of the MTR's. But are super quiet and have a smooth ride. I was really impressed. I paid around $600 installed. Decently priced. But that was from my local Ford dealer.
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Fleet Mechanic
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From: Ohio
oh no the tire noise doesnt bother me. infact im prolly gettin ground hawgs soon. im just sayin that i'd like to get a good sounding exhaust that i can still hear on the highway haha. so i think the warlock might be a good choice, but then again im gonna remove the existing piping after the muffler i have now and see how that sounds. everyone tells me its louder in the cab with the exhaust ending before the rear axle
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