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Old 09-23-2007 | 08:46 PM
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Originally Posted by slick1851
GTO guys run them and they sound really nice....
Good point, they do sound awesome on LS2 GTO's.
Old 09-24-2007 | 09:54 AM
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anyone else?
Old 09-24-2007 | 02:33 PM
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i have them and mine sound great the sound clips i
heard in this thread sound so bad

imo after hearing my friends single chambers i like mine vs his, just because at high rpms they sound like crap

heres 2 videos of my car

in the donut video my friend behind me has single chamber flowmasters on his

we both dont have cats, i have a 3 1/2 in setup his is 3

i need to get some new videos and i will before i put the car away
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZOwf2tAkVY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tm_qKWZJ5VQ
Old 09-24-2007 | 07:11 PM
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i had there 4 inch kit on my 88 t/a and loved it
Old 09-25-2007 | 11:47 AM
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Mmmm, bump
Old 12-18-2007 | 02:54 PM
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bringing back an old *** thread....

Heres my spintechs with stock manifolds and cats, and h pipe

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lni_h...eature=related

and heres my spintechs with longtubes, an h pipe and catless mids.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Vj0r7mX-PI

love the sound
Old 12-18-2007 | 04:18 PM
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They dont flow that well but from what I've heard. I like the sound of them. My buddi has them on his fox body and that car sounds more like an old school Mustang now which is a pretty bad *** sound. I have also heard them on a h/c LS1 Rx7 and they sounded great. Its a much deeper sound than most of the other mufflers that are so highly touted on the board here corsas, magnaflow.. ect which I dont think sound that gret.. the magnaflow especially.. One of my buddies F-body had them for a while and he switched them to the dynomax bullets... after only a little while. Its deff louder but everyone who heard the dynomaxs liked them better than the magnaflows.
Old 12-18-2007 | 05:38 PM
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I hadn't heard of them until recently. Of course that doesn't matter since I'll never get rid of my Borla/Electric Cutout setup, lol.
Old 12-19-2007 | 10:17 AM
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Originally Posted by SK360
bringing back an old *** thread....

Heres my spintechs with stock manifolds and cats, and h pipe

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lni_h...eature=related

and heres my spintechs with longtubes, an h pipe and catless mids.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Vj0r7mX-PI

love the sound
no offence but it sounds like a mustang, idk which spintechs you have but heres one of mine again before i tore the motor out

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7CTahPVjYE
Old 12-19-2007 | 11:13 AM
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My brother had them on his 5.0 gt Fox and they had a lot of rasp to them.So I stayed away from them and went SLP LM2 for my T/A. They arent that popular for obvious reasons:

1)price
2)performance
3)size
4)not popular

Go to a mustang forum and that will certainly change. But most F-body cars run SLP,Corsa,B&B or a true dual setup with dynomax bullets. Those are the most common, so people feel more comfortable buying them, because they are proven performers.
Old 12-19-2007 | 11:27 AM
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Originally Posted by Asmodeus
there's some clips on ls1sounds.com
my gto w/duals and spintech mufflers only are on there and I have one w/me and a cam and dumps w/spintechs i can post
Old 12-19-2007 | 02:32 PM
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Originally Posted by 89Formulaws6
no offence but it sounds like a mustang, idk which spintechs you have but heres one of mine again before i tore the motor out

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7CTahPVjYE
pro streets... i dont know if the camera makes it sound like a 'mustang' to you, but it sounds nothing close to a 4.6 ford in person
Old 12-19-2007 | 03:25 PM
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i've been planning on makinga true dual setup with hooker long tubes, catted x and spintechs for quite a while. from what i can tell they sound pretty sick and hopefully they won't be too loud.
Old 12-19-2007 | 06:27 PM
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You can get Spintech mufflers in 304 SS.And there catback is about $400.00
Their mufflers range in price from $80.to $170
I replaced the the flowmaster muffler on my catback with the Spintech 344SC and it clearly flows better, and sounds better ! The muffler was about $120 from Spintechs website.
Old 12-19-2007 | 06:35 PM
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Spintechs havet here wn sound, and they do sound great!

GTOs run this system alot
Old 12-20-2007 | 07:30 AM
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Originally Posted by slick1851
Spintechs havet here wn sound

Old 12-20-2007 | 09:53 AM
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A lot of their mufflers are not straight-thru, and so are somewhat restrictive. They've also tended to have high pricing for most stuff too.

If I can't see right through a muffler, I don't use it.
Old 12-20-2007 | 10:46 AM
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I had one on my car for a long time, as a bolt on car. It sounded good, but was restrictive, and I switched it out for a Magnaflow.
Old 12-20-2007 | 11:41 AM
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I for one love the Spintech's, in particular the ProStreet Series. Sounds totally different than everyone else's Flowmasters, bullets or magnaflows. Which there is nothing wrong with how they sound, it just seems like everyone has them. I first used these on my h/c/i 306 in my 94 GT with LT's off road X-pipe and with them dumped. The sound was unreal. Very loud and badass sounding. You get these behind a engine with some compression and damn they're awesome.

I run them now on my 98 T/A. Has Pacesetter LT's, and custom true dual x (no cats) and 3" under axle tails The sound is nothing like any other F-bodys around here or that I've heard before. Once you get above 4k they really scream and have a somewhat "exotic" sound to them. I ran them for a day dumped and still loved them, you could really hear the cam and it had a very smooth sound to it.

I'll try and post a idle clip I have of it without the tailpipes.

I also never have a problem with scraping unless I go over a really large speed bump. Here's a pic of mine w/out the tail pipes to give you an idea of it looks w/out the tail pipes.
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Link to idle clip:

http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v1...rodscar006.flv


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