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Old 05-23-2005, 04:34 PM
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well ive been experimenting around with diff setups to do for my super budget exhaust. I originally planned swapping a 12" bullet with my stock muffler and welding in a Y piece after the axle. But i figure it would be stupid to bend pipe back around to keep my T/As dual outlet.

So i think ill go with a sweet thunder welded in the I-pipe. The system would basically be a LM but with a Sweet thunder and the stock pipes.

Total cost should be:
sweet thunder $60, tips $70, and $70 in work/pipes.

anyone experienced/heard a setup like this. How does the sweet thunder do with just one muffler in the ipipe and are the $60 aluminized ones good enough?

I made some quick renderings of what itll look like. The fabbed y-piece is in green and the stock pipes are in red. Tips are stainless 4" double walls. Sweet thunder is the off grey color piece in the ipipe.

Tell me wat you think?
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Is this what you were suggesting for me when I was asking about a different chambered muffler on my Hooker catback?
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I am planning on using sweet thunders and getting a place to rig up something like GMMG only w/ sweet thunders. I am prally doing this in two weeks. I am curious how it sounds. If you get it done real soon, let me know. I have never heard sweet thunders on anything but duals--and not even that in person.
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I've been wanting to try this as well but the biggest sweet thunders you can get are 2.5 inlet/outlet. The stock I-pipe on my 99 T/A is 2.75.
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Originally Posted by Uno99
I've been wanting to try this as well but the biggest sweet thunders you can get are 2.5 inlet/outlet. The stock I-pipe on my 99 T/A is 2.75.
The biggest is 3 inch in/out but the inside diameter of the baffles is 2.5 inches.

I am really curious as to how this would sound also btw. I was considering putting two of them on, one on each side just before the exhaust tips. Havent checked to see if they would fit though.
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I did not even see those. Do you think that would choke down the flow?
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I think sweet thunders flow pretty decent. Im pretty confused on their setups but i think im jus gonna get the aluminized basic one for ~$50.

Has anyone actually done a similar system ("sweetmouth" i guess would be the term)

I dont think theyll fit before the tips
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i've been debating something very similiar, but using something like TSP rumbler and just swap out the muffler. it will be interesting to see your results if you make it happen. what length of muffler do you think you will go with?
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I would do one of two things:

1) Put one 12" bullet right before the passenger tip. Should be no problem fitting it there, and put another 16" bullet running underneath the gas tank in the stock muffler location going to the driver side tip. I included a crappy pic to try and get my point across.

2) In stainless works chambered system, they put a y in the i-pipe, and run two chambered mufflers next to each other, then y it back into a single pipe and go over the axle and into the tips

Putting a single chambered muffler in the i-pipe is going to kill your flow. I would highly recommend not doing that.
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darn the shortest sweet thunder is 18" and at $60 thats over $120 in just mufflers. I think ill go for a bullet in the i-pipe instead.

Anyone have pics of a stainless works system?
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I paid $111.00 shipped for two 18" aluminized. I don't know about flow but I picked up a lot of power with my dual setup. I agree that one in the I-pipe might be a little restrictive.
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I like "thundermouth"
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Originally Posted by JAvenger007
darn the shortest sweet thunder is 18" and at $60 thats over $120 in just mufflers. I think ill go for a bullet in the i-pipe instead.

Anyone have pics of a stainless works system?
Sweet thunder will make custom length mufflers.

Stainless works used to have pics on their website, but when they redid it a couple of weeks ago, none of the pics appeared. Maybe if you email them they can get you a pic.
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I put a dynomax bullet in the I pipe and a 3" cutout behind it. I run it open all the time. I think it sounds badass. That was my budget setup, about $130.
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I actually had drawn out a design and figured up what it would cost to do a setup similar to GMMG with:
2 sweet thunders
2 90° bends
a couple of feet of pipe
and a y pipe
it actually would be pretty easy, and the sound well everyone knows the sound



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