Muscle Car sound

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i was looking for exhaust set up that will give that classic muscle car crunch, my truck has 97 350 Vortec and i don't mind doing work and spending some cash
 

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Hello, I had a two similar trucks. A 2000 chevy 2500 with a 5.7L vortec. And a 1997 z71, The 2000 had facory exhaust and muffler rusted out and I looked high and low. I put two power sticks on it and it sounded amazing. http://www.classicchambered.com/classic/products.html
The 1997 had flowmasters 40 series and while Im not against flowmasters the 2000 sound is what I missed. Nice deep sound, I had dual "long bodied" 2.5"
 

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2.25" pipes
Cat delete
Small through style DI/SO muffler (magnaflow/dynomax/etc.)
 

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Longtube headers
3 inch y pipe
Flowmaster 40 dumped right after the cab
Has a great rumble, andsurprisingly I don't notice it even at 80mph but if you get it passed 3k rpm everybody will hear you in town

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The original muscle car sound was 2 old school glass packs with a set of headers, and no cats. Glass packs have no restrictions at all inside of the mufflers. I have 2 Glass packs that are 24 inches long on my 97, with a set of shorty headers, and my cats have been gutted. Everyone who hears my truck, loves the sound. Flow masters have baffles in them to direct flow, and that is restrictive. Magna flow, Borla, and several other brands do not have baffles in them. It is as simple as this, if you can hold the muffler up to the light, and see through it, it has no restrictions, but some glass packs do have to be installed in the correct direction for flow because of the way the holes inside of them are punched. The more restrictions you can remove, the better the engine will perform. The best thing about glass packs, they are dirt cheap. One more thing, the longer the muffler, the more quiet it will be.
 
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The original muscle car sound was 2 old school glass packs with a set of headers, and no cats. Glass packs have no restrictions at all inside of the mufflers. I have 2 Glass packs that are 24 inches long on my 97, with a set of shorty headers, and my cats have been gutted. Everyone who hears my truck, loves the sound. Flow masters have baffles in them to direct flow, and that is restrictive. Magna flow, Borla, and several other brands do not have baffles in them. It is a simple as this, if you can hold the muffler up to the light, and see through it, it had no restrictions, but some glass packs do have to be installed in the correct direction for flow because of the way the holes inside of them is punched. The more restrictions you can remove, the better the engine will perform. The best thing about glass packs, they are dirt cheap. One more thing, the longer the muffler, the more quiet it will be.

That's oldschool, love the way that setup sounds on hopped up smallblocks sound
 

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My truck has the 5 speed manual . I bought it with 28 inch cherry bombs , 2.5 inch duel exhaust from the head pipes all the way to the back bumper with high flow cats , the exhaust had the old school cackle to the pipes and was fun to listen to , I got a lot of compliments on the sound but unfortunately I tow and it was just to much when there was a 40% load on the engine at 3000 rpm , It would wake the dead . I put a 2 in 2 out 40 inch magna flow on it and it sounds like crap and the pipes make that thrumming in the cab that makes your ears ache , so I'm curious as to what this thread comes up with for nice sounding exhaust that is everyday friendly .
 

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All that's is nice but also a loopy cam would help out engine is a 2004 5.3
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When I think classic musclecar sound I think Thrush & Cherry Bomb. Flowmaster and such IMHO is a modern muscle sound. I had 2 baked out long thrush glasspacks (true duals) on my 73 Plymouth Roadrunner w/a hopped up 340 and that thing sounded beast and as classic as it gets. I plan on putting a Thrush welded muffler on my 1990 c1500 350 w/a high flow cat soon.
 

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Magnaflows are damn good, I had an itty bitty one mounted up on my old Vortec 350 Suburban, all my friends said it sounded like a racecar when I got on it, still had stock manifolds and cats too;

My 454's got a flowmaster on it, sounds decent, but just want something better flowing. Plan on running shorty headers, no cats, true dual 2.25 pipes with an X-pipe and maybe an H-pipe welding in somewhere.

Another good way to achieve the muscle car choppy sound is a cam upgrade, but that's a whole 'nother can of worms that a lot of us are way to eager to open.
 
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