IS it possible to make a LS1 sound good?

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Sep 5, 2002 | 08:03 PM

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TravWS6

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Re: IS it possible to make a LS1 sound good?

Well everyone has there own opionin.. but i still like loud exhuast <img border="0" title="" alt="[Big Grin]" src="gr_grin.gif" /> !

Sep 5, 2002 | 10:11 PM

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Brownie

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Re: IS it possible to make a LS1 sound good?

Yep - GMMG, FLPs with cats! Sounds freakin awesome <img border="0" title="" alt="[Big Grin]" src="gr_grin.gif" />

Has a nice deep old muscle car sound and its not quiet.

I had the offroads in for a couple months but it was too obnoxious for me. Although at WOT it was incredible!

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Sep 5, 2002 | 11:42 PM

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Re: IS it possible to make a LS1 sound good?

I'll agree. Borla's sound great(deep) with stock manifolds/cats but sound like A$$(raspy/ricey) without cats on LS1's. Even LT1's get this horrible sound with headers and no cat going through the Borla.

You want a loud, DEEP rumble? Go with the 4" Mufflex exhaust that uses the Flowmaster race muffler. It'll still rasp some with orp's(like any LS1) but it does sound freakin MEAN.

Also, the GMMG Chambered Exhaust has a wonderfully deep "true" muscle car-like sound to it with headers and highflow cats. Heck, it even sounds really TOUGH behind just stock manifolds/cats.

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Sep 6, 2002 | 12:28 AM

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TravWS6

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Re: IS it possible to make a LS1 sound good?

Ya I'v actulay bin thinkin about GMMG.. i can't say i'v heard a LS1 with the 4" mufflex..
Ok i think i got a idea here.. what if i took out my borla.. put my stock cats back in? it would be a little louder and still deep without the borla right?? and if that aint enough for me then if i built off the stock cats to true duals.. 2 quarter" pipes and drop it before the axle with no mufflers at all?? i would proobly gain some kinda power gettin rid of that squished Y pipe.. plus a bit more noise? i wana be legal with the cats in.. and still want it deep.. i think the cats are what make these cars deep rumble in the first place? cuz borla is only 25% goin thro the muffler with no plate right? so bascily your hearing the cats?? i got a couple tests i wana do..i'll let ya no what sounds good.. thanx again guys

Sep 6, 2002 | 10:27 AM

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Kaji98Z

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Re: IS it possible to make a LS1 sound good?

<blockquote>quote:<hr />Originally posted by TravWS6:
i can't say i'v heard a LS1 with the 4" mufflex.. <hr /></blockquote>Go to mufflex's website and they have a sound clip of the 4" flowmaster mufflex.

Sep 6, 2002 | 11:46 AM

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Re: IS it possible to make a LS1 sound good?

<blockquote>quote:<hr />Originally posted by Kaji98Z:
 <blockquote>quote:<hr />Originally posted by TravWS6:
i can't say i'v heard a LS1 with the 4" mufflex.. <hr /></blockquote>Go to mufflex's website and they have a sound clip of the 4" flowmaster mufflex.<hr /></blockquote>They actually have two sound clips of the 4" system with the Flowmaster and one with the 4" dual outlet Spintech. Both are on LS1 Z28's. Sounds damn good to me.

Sep 7, 2002 | 01:25 PM

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Re: IS it possible to make a LS1 sound good?

I have the 1 3/4" Dynatechs, custom y-pipe, and Mufflex 4" with dual outs. I also transplanted the B&B Triflo tips to this package so it looks like plain bad-***. My engine is a 383 and I run no cats and no emissions components at all. It is VERY common for me to stop at a light and have someone look over and tell me my car sounds really great. I don't even have to get anywhere into the throttle. Car just purrs when driving around town and completely roars at WOT.

Sep 8, 2002 | 06:58 AM

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Re: IS it possible to make a LS1 sound good?

I started out with header(custom to fit kind <img border="0" title="" alt="[Sad]" src="gr_sad.gif" /> ) an X-pipe and two borlas dumped. I had that shitty rustang rassp. I then put a dynamax bullet right after the collecter and it totally cured the rasp. Cost only 60 plus the 4 welds. So I think you could do this and your tone would stay the same, just no rasp. Good Luck PS no cats

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Sep 8, 2002 | 02:35 PM

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Re: IS it possible to make a LS1 sound good?

I have heard a LS1 formula that sounded like my old solid cammed 12:1 compression 468 camaro!!!

That was probably the best sounding 4th gen I have ever heard! I loved it. I think he said he had some hooker headers with dual cut outs and borla(bypassed with the cut outs). Of coarse he had a nice size cam and all but it was nice. I member the car ran 12.30's on nittos spinning like hell and it was HOOOOOOTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT!!!!!!!

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Sep 8, 2002 | 09:22 PM

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Re: IS it possible to make a LS1 sound good?

Hey Shane, 409 cubes make it into a big block. Jimmy <img border="0" title="" alt="[Big Grin]" src="gr_grin.gif" />

Sep 9, 2002 | 09:57 AM

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Re: IS it possible to make a LS1 sound good?

<blockquote>quote:<hr />Originally posted by TravWS6:
.. but im starting to relize how import like my exhuast sounds like!! i have no cats and open borla.. when rasp hits it sounds soo ricy... but its loud.. thats what i was aiming for with no cats.. but is there a way to have loud and deep exhusat?? .. where can u have the exhuast dump out and be legal.. don't realy wana go over the axle.. (to quiet!) thanx again<hr /></blockquote>Put a bullet muffler on that y-pipe, that should help with that rasp sound. I have the MAC headers with off-road y-pipe, and my exhaust is dumped over the axle, and I LOVE IT <img border="0" title="" alt="[Big Grin]" src="gr_grin.gif" />
Sounds awesome when you first start the car up, not quiet, but not too load for cruising around town and awesome again at WOT. That is the way I like it.

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Sep 9, 2002 | 08:25 PM

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Re: IS it possible to make a LS1 sound good?

Country Boy, let us hear what you have! <img border="0" alt="[Firebird]" title="" src="graemlins/formula.gif" />

Sep 9, 2002 | 10:27 PM

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Re: IS it possible to make a LS1 sound good?

<blockquote>quote:<hr />Originally posted by 99WhiteSS:
I have the 1 3/4" Dynatechs, custom y-pipe, and Mufflex 4" with dual outs. I also transplanted the B&B Triflo tips to this package so it looks like plain bad-***. My engine is a 383 and I run no cats and no emissions components at all. It is VERY common for me to stop at a light and have someone look over and tell me my car sounds really great. I don't even have to get anywhere into the throttle. Car just purrs when driving around town and completely roars at WOT.<hr /></blockquote>Yup! Have to second this.

Ingredients to make an LS1 sound like a badass BBC:
1) Extra cubes (like 422 <img border="0" title="" alt="[Big Grin]" src="gr_grin.gif" /> )
2) Good big headers (like stepped Dynatechs)
3) No cats
4) Big fat y-pipe
5) Corsa
6) Good big (but not excessive) cam.

I have been told numbers of times that my car sounds absolutely badass. And being the former owner of a Buick GS displacing 462 CI (0.030 455), I can tell you that this sounds better.

I love setting off the car alarms in the parking garage as I idle tamely by. Kind of fun.

Sep 10, 2002 | 08:57 AM

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Re: IS it possible to make a LS1 sound good?

<blockquote>quote:<hr />Originally posted by DriveATransAm:
if you run longtubes through cats and a cutout, it sounds really good.

im running a cam, off road pipes and my cutout partly open and the rest going through the dual dual. at idle you can hear the lope, but the dual dual gives a nicer deep underlaying note.
<hr /></blockquote>Yep what he said. Cept I've heard it with a Whisper Agressor exhaust and it sounds real nice! You'll get lots of compliments, even from Stang guys <img border="0" title="" alt="[Razz]" src="gr_tounge.gif" />

Mike

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