I'm with full force on this one. Its all in the pipes. Ever wonder why a 5.0 and a 4.6 sound pretty much the exact same? Well, Im pretty sure that the boddies are different between a late 80's 5.0 and a late 90's 4.6... and I'm pretty sure that those are two entirely different engines. Now, you can put the exact same muffler on a F150 and it will sound like a truck. Why? Because of the pipes (to include manifolds).

Remove the engines from the vehicles and hook up all the exhausts and start them up. You're going to notice some differences, like how the vette doesnt merge into one 3" pipe and rasp its way into one dual outlet muffler... but instead travel down a nice path to some very expensive mufflers. One sounds like a camaro... like all 4th gen camaros, and the other sounds like a vette (which can have a formula 1 sound to it... listen to the pacecar edition mufflers).

 

You can definitely give it a try. It will probably sound good, just don't expect it to sound exactly like a Corvette. I think you might be surprised by how different it sounds, but you'll still wind up with a badass sounding exhaust assuming you get the ground clearance of the TD's acceptable without the mufflers rattling on the floorboards. I don't know how well stingers will fit right at the tips.

 

5.0's and 4.6's don't sound alike. 5.0's are much deeper than 4.6's. The 4.6's have a much "sweeter" tone while the 5.0's have a much nastier tone. Yes, there is some level of similarity, but there is still a clear difference.

The thing you're forgetting is that when Ford set out to make the Mustang, they actually spent R&D trying to get the cars to sound similar. For instance, with the new 3V GT's, Ford spent hours upon hours and tons of money designing the chassis, exhaust and motor to get it to have that "Mustang sound." GM never designed the F-body to have "Corvette sound." In fact, there is no stereotypical "Corvette sound" in the same way there is that well-defined, stereotypical "Mustang sound." Even with all the R&D that Ford put in, I can STILL tell the difference between a 5.0L and a 4.6L GT blindfolded with a cotton ball in one ear.
For some reason, I get the feeling that you haven't pulled the motor and exhaust out of a Corvette and F-body chassis, sat them side-by-side out of the bodies, started them up next to each other and listened for differences. My gut just tells me you're making stuff up, here.

 

its the bends in the pipes, headers, cats, and mufflers that make it sound different. if you get it all the same, except the bends and headers it will probably sounds somewhat similar.

 

One of the times i was at the dragstrip I asked the kid what his exhaust set up was. He has C5 Corvette with heads and cam, american racing headers, high flow cats into a borla XR-1 Straight pipe exhaust. It was the best sounding vette i had ever heard. Reason why there were no mufflers. I wanted that sound, but the only way to get it, is to go out and buy a vette and get the same exhaust setup.

 

You can make an F body sound BETTER than a 'vette. H/C/I/E!!!

 

Stock wise, a vette has shorty style headers, high flow cats (touted by GM to be as close to free flow as you can get with a cat), shorter piping from exhaust to tip and different mufflers. Also equal length for the most part.

On an f-body, the exhaust manifolds were terrible, the cats flowed decent, the piping was longer and went to a y had more bends and the muffler was completely different.

Even if you do a cat back, the manifolds will dictate the sound characteristic a lot. If you had a vette and f-body and went with longtubes, identical cats and mufflers, then the longtubes routing and bends would alter the sound along with the longer pipe routing to change the sound enough. Each bend and angle will reflect the sound differently despite identical motors.

 

Thank you. Thats what I was trying to get across. And no, I havent had the engines out and set side by side. I wasnt trying to make it sound like I had. I am saying that if all you could see was exhaust and engine (no body/chassis) its going to look completely different. My original tone wasnt scientific... I'd call it smart assish

 

I think this new slp exhaust sounds like a c6 z06 with headers and corsa that i rode in. Especially in the second clip. Just my opinion. Its pretty expensive but sounds damn good.
Heres the link http://www.slponline.com/view_product.asp?P=31083

 

Now if you can make it sound lkike this Vette.......

http://nz.youtube.com/watch?v=MSZTbR6C6Lw

 

What is up with that thing? It sounds nasty! Pacecar mufflers?

 

This is just my opinion, but that vette sounds horrible, I've heard vetts that sound way better than that.... in fact a stock vette sounds better, yuck!

 

That would be the 180 degree headers that makes it sound like that. I like it personally. If they made 180 headers for a f-body I would be all over that ****.

 

I love the sound of both clips!!! so is that slp exhaust pretty much a loudmouth with extra resonators before the tips?? and im pretty sure that t/a has an slp block in it

 

Strange thread, This difference in the sound is the Z has higher compression and a cam. Do that to your car and it will most likly sound better that the Z did.
I personally think the F-bodys sound more like mussel cars than the Vettes do. I have Kooks and an borla XR-1. I've never herd my car from the outside while going down the road. I have herd F-Bodys W/ cams and other work as I drove near them and I think they sound great. More like a hot rod. I love my car and I love Vettes, but I've often wondered why the F-bodys (with motor work) sounded better

 

Yeah it is two mufflers or resonators at the back. No middle one. Its pretty obvious that that car has alot done to it. But damn does it sound good. I just dont want to have to part with my CME to get my car to sound like that.

 

Im not a fan of that sound. I think the best sounding car I have been around was a C6 Z06 with kooks headers catted Y and Corsa catback. Sounded awesome.