Lake Headers
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old round fart
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Try the awger things from Speedway. The trick will be getting the taper right.
Screaming Metal
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What ORF said! There is several ways to approach this....my hearing is gone, but alot of folks tell me mine in pretty damn loud.
i know going down the interstate cars don't like to stay beside me....so I enjoy it.
Go to the local music store or Guitar Center, and pick yourself up a pair of Sonic II's.Its like a muffler that goes inside your ears. Some of the Altered pilots wear them, and swear by them.
Because mine was so damn loud, I added a downpipe at the end of the pipes that run down into a old set of cutdown 'vette sidepipes. Gives it a low mellow tone and takes the 'bite' out of the exhaust tone. I can still rev it up and cause shit to reverberate....hahaha....
While I had my pipes off, I installed inside the end of the lake pipes themselves a cable operated cutout, so I can run straight or be muffled in the city....
The augers you can tune some, by wrapping them, etc. Somefolks say theres little difference.
This is just me, but back in the day, there were a insert the was tapered you could get that would slide up in the lake pipes, and even had the blockoff plate with a hole in it. What you would do is cut in two a pr. of cherrybomb glasspacks and weld the end that fit the hole in the blockoff plate hole.
The inside were the exhaust would hit the sawed intwo area, so you would get a piece of 16ga. sheetmetal, cut a circle that would fit inside the the tapered piece, would hold the packing in place, with a hole to match the inner tube diameter of the cherrybomb muffler....worked pretty good. You'd get them good and hot, and get the garden hose and spray it up in the exhaust crank her up and rev it up.....you could actually change the tone back then by doing that....
i know going down the interstate cars don't like to stay beside me....so I enjoy it.
Go to the local music store or Guitar Center, and pick yourself up a pair of Sonic II's.Its like a muffler that goes inside your ears. Some of the Altered pilots wear them, and swear by them.
Because mine was so damn loud, I added a downpipe at the end of the pipes that run down into a old set of cutdown 'vette sidepipes. Gives it a low mellow tone and takes the 'bite' out of the exhaust tone. I can still rev it up and cause shit to reverberate....hahaha....
While I had my pipes off, I installed inside the end of the lake pipes themselves a cable operated cutout, so I can run straight or be muffled in the city....
The augers you can tune some, by wrapping them, etc. Somefolks say theres little difference.
This is just me, but back in the day, there were a insert the was tapered you could get that would slide up in the lake pipes, and even had the blockoff plate with a hole in it. What you would do is cut in two a pr. of cherrybomb glasspacks and weld the end that fit the hole in the blockoff plate hole.
The inside were the exhaust would hit the sawed intwo area, so you would get a piece of 16ga. sheetmetal, cut a circle that would fit inside the the tapered piece, would hold the packing in place, with a hole to match the inner tube diameter of the cherrybomb muffler....worked pretty good. You'd get them good and hot, and get the garden hose and spray it up in the exhaust crank her up and rev it up.....you could actually change the tone back then by doing that....
Screaming Metal
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I tried them on my BBF and everything was cool until I tried to rev the motor, totally choked it down because of the flow. I had to add enough disc's to quieten it down, in doing so I restricted the exhaust flow pretty good....
However, I did notice that as I added and subtracted disc's, I changed the tone some. Might be worthwhile for someone with a smaller motor....mine is 500+ cubes....it flows alot....
I would sayanyone less that 388 should be OK....maybe even 400
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ellis8500
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Hope this is what you mean by Lake headers. I bought 4 tight bends, straight pipe and I cut apart a u-bend to fab my exhaust system. I have flow through glass packs but one could use some other type of muffler. After I got them all positioned I tacked them together with screws so they wouldn't move during the weld process. Took them to a local weld shop and had them TIG weld the joints. They are loud during acceleration but we can talk without yelling when just cruising along.
ellis8500
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One could do that...just more work and custom bent pipes. Could probably get some stock pipes for some car that would work. Perhaps you should add such a kit to your catalog of good parts??? I wanted the under car system so nobody would get burned. That does happen with the typical headers used on these cars.
Screaming Metal
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Not only does it look good, you won't burn your leg on a hot muffler.
I think these guys have one.
Screaming Metal
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Lets try this again....
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Screaming Metal
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OK....
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Nope, I didn't make them, a friend did. Its a piece of tubing, not quite cut to the cl....with a chop saw. Or a band saw, whichever. If you look close, you'll see the marks where the slots were laid out, then punch down the ribs....alternately....but they work....
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