exhaust eye opener

[rivernut]

Boy did I just learn a lesson. Last week I put hooker competion headers, 2 1/2 pipes, excelorator mufflers and dumped them in from of the rear axle on my 72 350 truck expecting a world of changes. Boy was I disappointed in them. I about puked. The mufflers were very tinny sounding and the left side sounded like one big exhaust leak. My dad actually called me a stupid#ss. I'm 40, I thought we were through with that. Anyway. I took it back and was going to change mufflers, lengthen the exhaust and hope it got better but before we did, we put an H pipe between in to see how that worked. Needless to say, my world is much happier now. The power is 10 times better, the exhaust leak sound on the left side is gone and the mufflers are alittle (just right) quieter.
Moral of the story: Never ever put exhaust on without an H or X pipe!
Here ends the gospel from a parent proclaimed stupid#ss.
Rivernut.