Exhaust options for good sound?

[Anonymous]

i just have stock 200 motor and exhaust, with 1 plain 12 inch muffler split into dual exhaust, with trumpet pipes. The thing sounds like a lawn mower engine. i hate it! To get a pretty good sound could i put on a better muffler, say from flowmaster or magnaflow, or do i need headers and better exhaust pipes too... Don't really want to spend a lot on it, and like the look of my trumpets, but would like it to sound more like a muscle car instead of dad's riding mower! Any one got an opinion? thanks

 

[Mustang Boy]

you dont need a whole new exhaust for it to sound good a flowmaster would make a good sound aswell as a magnaflow

 

[Anonymous]

There is no really easy answer to this. If you can afford the $$$ for 6-into-2 headers, it will make it sound 1000% better.

I have never heard a straight six with a stock manifold that had a sound that I liked, except the quiet ones. Actually, my Maverick had a single can muffler, right under th back bumper that sounded alright enough.

Get rid of the glasspack, and stay away from flowbastards, too. Just get one nice turbo muffler (the kind with three pass tubes inside), it should sound OK.

 

[mustube]

open 6 into 2 headers

 

[MercuryMarc]

I went from a 1.75 inch to a 2 inch exhaust with a standard muffler that the muffler shop had available and it sounds much better than before, but not like a V8.

http://www.angelfire.com/falcon/comet0/muffler.html

Good luck!

 

[falcon fanatic]

You could probably go with a dual 2" exhaust with turbo mufflers for a v-8 straight out of a catalog. It wouldn't sound like a v-8, but it would probably be deep and throaty and reasonably quiet.

I have a 6-2 header into a single 2-1/4" system with a trubo muffler and it sounds pretty beefy but is very quiet unless I put my foot into it.

 

[powerband]

250 with 3 carbs, 172 Clifford cam and dual out Hookers to dual Smithy mufflers dumping in front of rear wheels. Lopey and burbling - almost "cackling" sounding at idle, not too loud but deep sound at moderate acceleration. At WOT it's all noise and fury, doesn't sound like a typical performance Vee- 8 , it sounds like only a powerful inline can.

When I roll into a car cruise and stab the throttle , the guys who know engines raise their eyebrows and head over to see what the hey' is making "that sound"

Powerband