Ok just scored a set of ram horns for my 64 f-100! Now I want to see what mufflers to make it sound right? It's running the original 292 y block, and a 2 barrel still, basically stock, ok real Stock. I'd love to find those videos someone posted awhile back of the smithys and the porters. I love flowmasters on a nasty sbc, but I want a more deep sound on this truck and wonder if they will sound any good on a stock y block. Any help would be great.
Funny I too was just reading the quiet glass pack thread. I had a 64 f100 with a 292 and 3 speed, in fact a 59 edsel with the same combo. Both ran the cheapy muffler shop standard imco aluminum glass packs. probably 18 inches long or so. I think the porters or the brockmans have the "name" but I don't think I could get a better sound out of those two vehicles period.
The truck is a real nice clean ride, and It is a quite as a mouse with the single pipe, but I want to give it a bit of sound, nothing to damn loud, just a decent deep tone.
My drag racing pal and I had a shop downtown 15 years ago...there was a chubby friend of his, the guy had a new Chevy pickup with flowmasters on it, 2.25" tailpipes. He'd make a big show when leaving the shop, and really 'leg' the 350...well, he'd 'step on it'. It had a weird sound..."WWRRREEEEPP!" I wondered if he knew what it sounded like behind him...if my truck sounded like that, I'd run straights! (or 48" glasspacks!) My 292 'Bird had 26" glasspacks, 2" pipe...sounded mellow, but 'sharp at full throttle... Cherry Bombs are the same as the tradional glass packs? Seem to be...
Cherry bombs are like regular glasspacks.....but after a few weeks use, get nice and loud....... 4TTRUK
Porters, nothing else will sound as sweet. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMzx9M08hec http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0kxSJ1uaLQ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mim2Aq6pRPg
This is MY opinion, and mine alone, learned from years of experience experimenting with everything from Thrush Turbos to old driveshafts welded on in place of mufflers on my Y-blocks, of which I've had many.... Find the longest glass packs you can and install them..... Backwards. Seriously. It'll blow your mind. I like to put mine as far forward as I can, but its personal choice there... I like the long pipes for the echo.
And on a Y Block.... NO CROSSOVERS!!!!!!!!! Crossovers destroy the sound. It starts sounding like every other pussy-mobile!
This is what I need guys, thanks. And thanks for posting the videos., now I am torn....lol I only wanna do it once.
I have the Flowmaster 40's on my '32 pick and the Porters on my '32 sedan,,,I prefer the sound of the Flowmasters. HRP
It's OK, we understand. I just don't think a hot rod should sound like the kid down the streets Mustang or Camaro. That's why I don't like the Flowmasters.
i've read that to get cackle when you let off the gas you have to have the pipes in front of the mufflers that are smaller in diameter than the tail pipes. read it in a rod magazine.
if you want the old school glass pack sound but not an actual glass pack, Flowmaster as a HP-2 muffler which gives you that old school hot rod sound. i've used them on sbc '32s and sbf '40 ford coupe. Just make sure you have an h-pipe in front of the mufflers. The h-pipe allows you to have both mufflers fire off at the same time and have 8 cylinders of compression going threw them. If you want a chamber style Flowmaster muffler check with them on what sound you are looking for, cause any 40 series muffler will have an aggressive interior tone to them, which on long trips it gets a little old. Call Flowmaster and hit extension #452 that guy knows hot rods and has been a good help for me.
I agree with BlueOne. Thats my '57 in the 3rd vid he posted. I have ran all kinds of mufflers behind various Y's and the Porters sound the best by far, and they're built like a goddamn tank. The cheaper mufflers sound good for a while...until the packing burns up...then they sound like cheaper mufflers
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