[6pack] Exhaust needs a tad more loud

[Robert M. Lang]

Hi,

I've posted a few times on this subject. :-)

I ran a Monza system for years, probably 15 years or so. I hated it. After 
a long trip, my ears would be ringing and I'd be very tired. And I drove 
that thing - I "iron manned" to Dallas, Road America a couple of times, 
Virgina from Boston and lots of other "shorter" trips. I used to set off 
car alarms in car parks and all that.

I finally pulled that system out at the end of last year. Oddly, after 
close to 40k miles, all the pipes were in almost perfect condition, so it 
proably would have lasted another number of years had I not cut it out 
with a torch "accidentally". :-)

I wound up putting in a custom exhaust made of 2" pipe and a "turbo" style 
muffler. Turbo mufflers are quiet untill you tromp in it. And on my car, 
when the cam comes one, the thing makes enough noise that you know 
something's going on under the hood. But when driving around / cruising, 
you can actually talk (not yell!!) to your passenger. This was HUGE for 
me.

The bottom line for my setup which included some messaging to get the 
system attached to the special header I have was not cheap at $400, but I 
didn't even get my hands dirty in the process, so that was pretty sweet. 
My only regret is that I would have liked all the tubes to have been done 
in stainless, but the shop that did the work used fairly thick aluminized 
steel (14 gauge, I think - it's pretty thick) so I doubt this system will 
ever rust out...

I could go into great detail on this, but I won't right now. Suffice to 
say that the sound is great and the cost was reasonable when compared to 
buying a Falcon or other brand SS "sport" setup - I highly recommend this 
way of doing the exhaust. So much so that I also have a similar setup on 
my race car, although the race car uses a 2.5" pipe from the header back. 
That car is fairly quiet too, although it doesn't see a lot of partial 
throttle running. And the carb intake noise is actually louder than the 
exhaust, believe it or not.

c ya,
rml
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