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slowburb

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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.

Ummm a Thrush "welded" muffler is a duplicate copy of a flowmaster 40. According to you, this is not a muscle car sound. I have a muscle car with completely cooked glasspacks on it.

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.

Sound is one thing. Rhythm and beat are another. Come to think of it, there are quite a few distinctly different muscle car sounds.
 

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Ummm a Thrush "welded" muffler is a duplicate copy of a flowmaster 40. According to you, this is not a muscle car sound. I have a muscle car with completely cooked glasspacks on it.



Sound is one thing. Rhythm and beat are another. Come to think of it, there are quite a few distinctly different muscle car sounds.
I didn't say I was going for the classic musclecar sound in my truck. Otherwise I would go for their glass packs or the Mad Hot. :)
 
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Exhaust is good and all, but if you really want it to sound like a muscle car you'll need one of these to replace the very unmuscle car like one in the factory truck.
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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"

I lost that site... Now I have it back. I was looking for diesel exhaust at that time. lol
 

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I have 2.25 from stock manifold into a custom y merge pipe into a 3 inch jegs dual chambered. Muffler with a turn down at rear axle. It sounds groovy
 

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Exhaust is good and all, but if you really want it to sound like a muscle car you'll need one of these to replace the very unmuscle car like one in the factory truck.
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Agree. Along with some compression. Cammed up 10-11.1 compression hitting hard is music. Stock with a loud exhaust just for the sake of being loud still sounds weak.
 
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