headers and straight pipes

[bojak]

Does anyone have any audio of 350 with long headers and 2.5 exhaust straight back? No cats, no muffler, no cam, just stock motor with this exhaust set up. I am worried it may be a little loud for my middle aged taste but my buddy is swearing it won't. Love to hear it before i do it if i could.

[mooseknuckles]

....seriously?

[bojak]

which part? Me being too old possibly, that set up, not sure how i have fouled here? Enlighten me.

[Gigem]

If you think there is even a possibility of "too loud", then this setup will be too loud for you. Straight pipes are for people who have no concept of the term "too loud"...

[bojak]

i was pretty sure it would be, just have a buddy swearing that it wasn't. Thanks for the enlightening. I like a pretty vanilla sounding exhaust, but would like the least amount of restriction of flow as possible. Any recommendations? For me it is about flow not making a loud statement. in a perfect world it would be full flow but sound like stock ( well a little rumble).

[rollin thunder]

Originally Posted by Gigem

If you think there is even a possibility of "too loud", then this setup will be too loud for you. Straight pipes are for people who have no concept of the term "too loud"...

ran straight 3 inch side pipes that dumped right behind cab off a 305.
and btw did you say loud? I dont think i heard you.

[Mr Pops]

Here's me doing a one wheeled wonder in my 76 Blazer about five years ago with long tube headers and about a foot of pipe if I remember right. I drove it like this for one day

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1e5_5RvgfM

[motornut]

Originally Posted by bojak

Does anyone have any audio of 350 with long headers and 2.5 exhaust straight back? No cats, no muffler, no cam, just stock motor with this exhaust set up. I am worried it may be a little loud for my middle aged taste but my buddy is swearing it won't. Love to hear it before i do it if i could.

manifolds and those 2.25 straight pipes was too loud (legally)just driving to get mufflers
doubt the neigbours woulda liked that for too long

[motornut]

Originally Posted by motornut

manifolds and those 2.25 straight pipes was too loud (legally)just driving to get mufflers
doubt the neigbours woulda liked that for too long

1979 Jimmy str8 pipes - YouTube

just found this lol

[chrly1492]

I'm running long headers with 2.5" pipe, but through a set of Flow Masters. It is about as close to no restrictions as possible, but I can still drive in town and not attraction too much attention from the law. (I too am in your age bracket.)

[tinydb84]

I had a 72 monte carlo with a 350 that I cut the muffler off of when I was 16. It sounded like **** but since it was loud and I was broke I drove the **** out of it like that. I never got pulled over but I would let off the gas when I was near a cop.

[bohmankid]

straight pipes are grossly loud.
I had straight pipes on my 85 with a 350 and it was absolutely terrible. I'm 21, and I was thinkin louder is better. It's not.

I also had 4 inch stacks on the same truck with no mufflers. not as bad since the noise was above me. Still too loud and felt like a loss of power.

Then I put on glasspacks. They were tolerable. But I got rid of them after I went on a long freeway drive because the drone of 3k rpms in my ear drove me insane!!

Now I have actual mufflers. Magnaflows. Haha. Much much better.

[kalbert]

Running open pipe is not cool. It seems like it would be, but it's not. It's fun for about 5 minutes at most. It's obnoxious, uncomfortable, and dumb. When people see (hear) you drive by they know you're not really enjoying it no matter what you may say. Don't fake the funk and pretend you're having fun, it's ok to run mufflers.

Cutouts are kinda cool to uncork at a drive in, when doing laps around the parking lot at idle. Just seal them back up before you get on the pedal or everyone will think you're a clown. Most cutouts leak and are troublesome, ticking away like a blown header gasket most of the time. If you go with cutouts know that they sound silly when they're closed and leaking, and if they're not leaking everyone knows you fiddle farted around with them for 3 hours before the show trying to get them to open/close correctly.

[Low_Life86]

i have an electric cut out on mine so i can go from open headers to full exhaust system in under 5 seconds. it was cheap and easy to install.

[86c20]

I have long tubes 2.5 and glass packs with a 454 and it sound great. Is not to load till after 3k rpm
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[79Betty]

I have full length headers and straight 2.25 pipe. I LOVE IT regardless of what ppl say. My truck, i like it and don't care what ppl think.
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[stepside-mitch]

i have straight pipes coming from the stock manifolds running into 17inch glasspacks turned down right before the axle. I can't hear my radio when driving. It's only cool when I'm pulled up next to chicks at a stop light.

[b454rat]

My truck has manifolds with 2" full duals with no mufflers, and it sounded like ****! It was way too loud, even at idle. I cut it off bout behind the cab, put some $30 Thrush welded mufflers on, and it sounds great. Idling sounds great, revs, driving all sounds really good. I want to put a set of headers on it, and full 2 1/2" with an H-pipe. Motor is all stock 350.

You won't like the sound of no mufflers, it's crazy loud and will just attract the wrong attention....

[y5mgisi]

Too loud. I promise.

[ol'blazer]

i ran open headers for about a week, that was extremely loud, i would pull up to a red light and watch people in there little Prius's roll up their windows and shack their heads haha, that was way too loud!

[ToughBowtieTruck]

I get harassed as it is over noise with true dual Flowmaster 40s on my K20 . . .

[Space Monkey]

I'm running cherry bombs off my headers and it's crazy loud. I find myself babying the pedal because I kind of feel like an ahole when I hit the gas.

I was thinking about a chambered exhaust.

[cleansquare]

I have long headers on a stock 350 with 2.5" true duals into flowmaster super 44's with an h pioe right before the mufflers and it is a good rumble. Not loud at all but you can tell it sounds good. Also flowmaster 40's are.nice
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[bojak]

Originally Posted by cleansquare

I have long headers on a stock 350 with 2.5" true duals into flowmaster super 44's with an h pioe right before the mufflers and it is a good rumble. Not loud at all but you can tell it sounds good. Also flowmaster 40's are.nice
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Ok can someone help educate me on the difference between the series of flowmaster mufflers? What is the difference between 40 series and others? Is it flow or all just sound? Like picking a guitar chord? I know slightly more than nothing about these things but i try not to let that stand in my way.

[77ChevySharkBite]

Originally Posted by bojak

Ok can someone help educate me on the difference between the series of flowmaster mufflers? What is the difference between 40 series and others? Is it flow or all just sound? Like picking a guitar chord? I know slightly more than nothing about these things but i try not to let that stand in my way.

I think it's the overall length, sound and flow. From what i've heard a flowmaster 40 has more of a deep tone to it, where as the 44's are a more aggressive sound.