New Exhaust Is Underway
My old true duals don't fit with my new torque arm so its time for an upgrade. I just hope it sounds good. Heres the details and a few pics that I took from the true dual thread. What do you guys think? Will it look and sound good?
My setup is hooker LTs, 2.5" summit x pipe kit that will now go over the axle on the passengers side and into a dual inlet/dual outlet magnaflow muffler with 2OTL tips. I'm trying to do a setup thats not so loud, my dumped bullets were way too loud for my taste so I'm hoping the magnaflow will quiet it down quite a bit. But heres some pics of how I want it to look when its complete.......



Now does anyone have a sound clip of a magnaflow muffler like this one in the 2nd pic on an f body? Any thoughts on the setup would be appreciated
Last edited by Turnin20s; Aug 27, 2008 at 02:09 PM.
How does it sound when your driving? I know its a completely different setup than what I'm going to have, but at least I'll have an idea. I had a magnaflow on my 92 chevy truck and absolutely hated it, but I had the smallest case and a 3" in/out on a stock truck. It just didn't have any tone. But I'm hoping with the bigger case and about 250 more rwhp the magnaflow will sound good on my car. When you shift down to slow down does your exhaust "rapp" or does it just sound smooth kinda like normalThanks again guys I'll take a bunch of pics and hopefully have some good videos after its complete, but I'm also welding up my brothers true duals for his V8 S10 too so it might be a little while
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But I went out and mocked up some tips today to get the just of it. I angled the tips about 30* and set the one on the left (as your looking at the rear) about 1/8" back but it needs to be closer to 1/4" to follow the body line better. Didn't get any pics and lost interest after a little while due to a long story, but hopefully this weekend I'll be able to get something done
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I run a single inlet/dual outlet Magnaflow from a full 3 inch exhaust. The system is pretty freakin loud as is. I can't imagine running an x and duals. If you want tone, go with dual Flowmaster 40s. Magnaflow are straight through as opposed to baffled, so the tone is different and slightly less restricted.
I guess the difference is, do you want a mean rumble or a nasty growl?
Nice system BTW
I run a single inlet/dual outlet Magnaflow from a full 3 inch exhaust. The system is pretty freakin loud as is. I can't imagine running an x and duals. If you want tone, go with dual Flowmaster 40s. Magnaflow are straight through as opposed to baffled, so the tone is different and slightly less restricted.
I guess the difference is, do you want a mean rumble or a nasty growl?
Nice system BTW
I'm hoping I like the sound and will make a few vids of it inside the car and outside the car, normal driving and WOT pulls, but it will end up being a week or so now.
BTW I do all of my own exhaust work, so this system is only going to cost me about $150 and the muffler is $100 of that but it is stainless steel so I don't have to worry about it ever again until I'm sick of it.
But my reasoning for the single muffler is to keep as much or more ground clerence as stock without having to hack up my floor or the trunk area. I probably will eventually to traditional true duals with 1 pipe on each side with a CME and have the mufflers mounted under the car before the axle, but my floor pans will be nowhere near stock, in the back they will peobably be raised 2-3" and the fuel pump harness that goes through the floor will be relocated as well as the fuel and brake lines, but thats a project for a long winter, not a short summer LOL
BTW GoFast908Z, I wasn't trying to be a dick, but I see no power loss for running true duals into a single muffler thats designed for just that. I just have my reasoning for that setup. If I came off like an *** I really didn't mean it
Do some searching though, you can get two mufflers with over the axle and ground clearance. It can be done.
Hopefully this weekend I'll be able to get it all finished up, or else the weekend after depending on what I have to order
Got the bend kit, got the magnaflow muffler, got the so called 1.75" drop springs (front dropped 1.25" and the rear dropped .25"
I guess I'll have to trim a coil off to get the right stance
I installed the springs and started on the exhaust and it was going really good, but then I just hit a wall with one bend and was getting pissed so I called it a day. Also cut up a V8 S10 header and made room for the steering shaft, rewrapped the header, and did a few more odds and ends. If my phone will load up some pics I'll post them up. But I should have everything all done by this weekend, but my clerences are just as good as stock, my headers are still the lowest point of the whole system
Heres the pics.....bare with me they are from my phone, but aren't too bad




And heres the new stance of the car, well the front anyway. Measures in at 26.5, stock was at 27.75 so hopefully they will settle down a little. Pic was taken 15 minutes after install

I'm going out to work on the exhaust in the morning before work as long as my cold doesn't get any worse, but let me know what you think of my progress. So far I have only used some bends laying around my shop, thats why there are some black and some rusted ones. I'm going to sand blast the whole system and paint it before I install it onto my car so it looks nice and doesn't rust
I was going to go and work on it some more today, but I feel like **** so hopefully tomorrow I'll feel better and be able to get something done





