experiences? hows it sound? any issues? my mufflers are sittin too low and i cant come up with any mufflers that will fit and not take up the same space.. thinkin about straight pipe.. unless i can come up on some tiny tiny mufflers.. im still lookin for them car is ran with 2" pipe... what do you guys think?
Didn't they squeeze those metal coppery dish scrubs called "Atta Boy" in there tail pipes back in the day to muffle the engine? I know I have some of those things in the garage and you can get them from the grocery store. That's if you are really in a pinch and I am not sure what that would do to the engine. You can also make your own muffler by using the motorcycle baffles that screw in the exhaust pipe.
Long unmufflered pipes are really loud they will really rack off! The sound is greatly magnified. OldWolf
What you got that nothing will fit ? I got a buddy that has a 3 window coupe and has just 2" pipe comeing off the collector from the side (has blockoffs at the end of header). It's a stock Ford 302 and we can't understand why it's not loader than it is. It's real mellow sounding.
http://www.summitracing.com/parts/CCI-3DI02R/ You could always make your own. Few things sound worse than a stock Chevy through open pipes.
Growing up in North Jersey in the late 50's, you would get your car impounded with straight pipes. Huge fine and points on your license.
i expect it would sound bad, thats why im asking LOL i also figure that if i had the baffles at the end of the pipes it woulndt be as good as say where the mufflers "should be".. what do you guys think about that? thanks for the fast responses... i really wish i would just tuck these mufflers up further but there just isnt room.. its a 63 impala with the flowmaster stainless kit..
exhaust was all just put on when i got the car, i would prefer not to replace the whole thing... i just want to have em not draggin lol...
Is it the flowmasters or can you do say Porters or Cherry bombs? What did they come with the factory and why is yours so much different?
don't know if this would work for you but may be just what you need to take the edge of the pipes offhttp://www.speedwaymotors.com/Dynatech-Vortex-Insert-Cones,23558.html
- the flowmasters are very thin hardly much wider than the piping.. - mine is differrnt because it lays frame (well mufflers for now LOL)
Had a chevy pickup with a 307. Ran ONE 2" pipe since it was a beater. If you kept your foot out of it things were fine, very mellow. All hell broke loose (and maybe some windows) when you got on the loud pedal.
1st off, I think 2" pipes out the back are too big for a 283, but whatever. Please think about taking new, "the LONGEST", 2" W/D/T smooth perforated inner pipe OLD-FASHIONED real glasspacks and bandsawing them on each side so that you can weld back on two flat plates so they are only 2" thick and install them. And if you want, dump the F/G roving and fill with stainless steel/copper brillo pads or whatever. pdq67
Hey, how about just raisin' the car up and you solve the problem??????? Also, what do lowriders do with their mufflers when they "lay frame"?
HAD a 283 when I was a kid........it had cans and had a sound that everyone knew it was coming down the road.........sweet.
had a 59 impala set real low and would drag mufflers, took the mufflers off and put pipe in and was fine in the car while you were driving since they ran out the back. someone following you might get tired of them but did sound alright. a good muffler shop should tuck the pipes up tight inside the X frame. I also used bullet type 12" blanks that they welded the ends on and they didn't drag since they were smooth. good luck
stock harley mufflers work good , ive done it on a 350 sbc with 2 inch got em for free at the time, cuz being take offs , but you can find real cheap..... then you can get a "live to ride, ride to live" license plate frame, haha
Oh god, don't even think about straight pipes. If space is really limited, how about some mid-late '60's Chevy 'factory-style' chambered pipes? Chambered pipes were a fairly rare factory option for Camaros and Chevelles circa '68 or '69 and an nearly identical 'chambered pipe set-up' was also used as the actual 'muffling device' on mid-60's Corvettes with factory sidepipes. Basically the chambered pipes were just lengths 2 1/2 OD exhaust tubing that were crimped and necked down every few inches to about a 2 or 2 1/8 inch or so OD to create some internal baffling and give some semblance of a muffling effect. The factory chambered pipes were still fairly loud, (they were actually illegal in some jurisdictions, leading GM to discontinue the option) but would still be way better than plain straight pipes. Chevy dropped them from the parts catalog sometime back in the late 1970's and actual NOS GM chambered pipes would probably be worth their weight in Martian unobtainium now, but reasonable priced aftermarket copies are now being re-popped for guys dong Corvette or Camaro and Chevelle restorations. Mart3406 =====================
I bought a set of those chambered pipes for my 60 chevy wagon about 13 years ago from summit. They weren't too much $$. I can't remember who made them...thrush? Might still be available.Sounded great/ not too obnoxious low rpm, but when ya cracked it...
Had a car with a stock 302 with 2 inch pipes and wanted to put a nice exhaust on it but wanted to try out the straight pipe sound before I put on the thrushes. So I cut the glasspacks off in the back and drove it five miles. It was obnoxious, it sounded like an underpowered ford farm truck. You might get different results with a high performance engine though.
i can drive fine cause i drive raised usually.. but the car is setup to just BARELY drive thru a parking lot of a show laid out, and id like to do that... but mufflers are fuckin me up us lowriders just drag the mufflers if we cant hide em well enough, but i dont wanna keep replacing them LOL... i have a good local guy, maybe ill take the car by him one day soon and see what he thinks.. i love the sound i have now, i wish i could tuck up further but floorboards stop me..
Seems to me a person could just take a chop saw and every few inches cut a notch in the pipe and then insert half a washer about 1 1/2 inch in diameter, stagger them from side to side and weld the side of the washer and pipe where you cut it back together.
OUR 30 CHEVY ROADSTER HAD A 283 WITH TWIN PIPES ALL THE WAY OUT. sOUNDED GREAT , NOT TO LOUD IF YOU WASNT ON THE THROTTLE. hIT IT HARD AND IT WOULD SOUND OFF. MANY , MANY HAPPY MILES AND SOUNDED GREAT!!!!
Had a Pontiac convertible with two piece Hedman TriY headers. The car was from the Virginia coast and the collectors had rusted out. The two pipe sections were still OK, and being young, dumb, nearly broke, and far from home with few tools, I bought four ten foot lengths of tubing the same diameter as the individual pipes (tubing was relatively cheap in those days, it was the fabricating that was expensive). After cutting the collectors off and welding the pipes on with a borrowed welder, I had four straight pipes running under the rear axle back to the rear bumper in groups of two looking for all the world like real scavenger pipes. A trip to the hardware store netted some inexpensive three foot chicken wire fencing. Roll four sections of the chicken wire up, stuff it up the pipes, and low and behold, instant baffles. Four cheap auto part store pipe hangers and it was done. Not overly loud and a nice rapp, ran it that way for years.