It was a bad day for my truck....

[Hotrod70C10]

Here's my story for today, I went out to adjust the kickdown for my turbo 350 earlier. In the process I accidently unhooked the power lead to my HEI. Well, I cranked on it a few times and pumped the gas pedal on top of the fuel that was built up from setting the kickdown. Here's where things go bad, I checked the distributor and there it is the power is dangling freely. I hooked it back up, hopped into the truck, turned the key and.................BOOOOOOM! I haven't heard an explosion that loud in my life!!! The neighbors not to mention everyone else on my street came outside to see what had just exploded. I fired it back up after it died from being flooded and guess what, It sounds like i'm running straight pipe on the passenger side. I checked under the truck and find that my good old super turbo muffler had split at the seam covering the whole lenght of the muffler. I decided to go pick another one up from the auto parts store the only thing is I had to drive it to get another muffler. The nearest parts store was closed so I went down about 2 miles to the next one which was open. I didn't know that sunday night was now considered a cruise night down the street that the parts store was on. I picked up the muffler and headed to the house. Since there were a million high school kids out on the roads there were quite a few cops. Guess what! I was stopped for my exhaust LOL!!! This time I didn't get introuble though, since I had a muffler in the bed of my truck and I told him he could check out a freshly detonated muffler under the passenger side of my truck. Not too long ago I was stopped and asked about emmisions equipment. I would imagine most of you guys remember that though. Well....I got the new muffler on after chiseling away at a spot weld on one side of the pipe. Do any of guys have a similar story? Sorry this is so long

[stllookn]

Story about getting pulled over...you bet. I told my son that I would follow him to the muffler shop to get his new Dynomax headers hooked up to his mufflers. He is running totally open and pulls onto the first main street one block from the house simultaneously a police cruiser pulls out of an adjacent street one block away...too close for me to pull between them. He makes it about one block before getting pulled over! Policewoman says "that certainly is loud"! I tell her I am following him to the muffler shop to have it fixed since it just happened and it certainly does need some attention. She checks the active criminal database to make sure there are no existing warrants and sends us on our way. I told him with his luck he better never break the law since there will be policeman right there watching!

[72 CustomCamper]

I've blown a muffler like that before. I use to coast down a nice sized hill in the neighborhood turn off the ignition pump the gas and fire it back up to get it to backfire. One night I pumped it a few times, fired it back up and came on home. Came out the next morning to goto school and BOOOOOOM..... Looked under the car and same thing, split from one end to the other. Scared the h*!! out of me.

Chuck

[Smoke-N-Fire]

After I bought my 71 4x4 I replaced the plugs and wires. When I cranked it back up, I took it for a spin and discovered I had blown my exhaust manifold. I figured it was a good time to get the headers and dual exhaust I wanted. So, after I put my headers on, I had to drive to the exhaust shop with open headers. Seeing as I had never been in a rig that loud, I was dropping the clutch and reving the engine causing quite the rumble. My wife was tailing me to make sure no cops interfered. Well, I got a green and gunned it. My wife couldn't catch up in time and a cop pulled in behind me! I put my truck in fourth and dropped down to 35 so it sounded like it was muffled. He never pulled me over but I sure was sweating!

[72shadetree]

not putting you down but them turbos aint worth **** was having trouble out of dist. and busted 6 in less than a month the pipe shop kept replaceing them but the last time they changed to a walker dynomax and have no problems

[Hotrod70C10]

I know that the turbo's are junk. I didn't have the spare $ to opt for some nicer mufflers then. Now i've got a $500 class to pay for so i'm tight on cash for the moment so, the $20 turbo works for me right now. I've gotta take it to the muffler shop soon so i'm probably going to run it out to the back instead of the turndowns.

[MandarinSixSeven]

Haha...I only laugh because a similar thing happened to me a couple months ago...I had just put on new plug wires, had them all routed nicely (so I thought) was takin' er for nice joyride around town, decided to give it some extra juice, when...holy crap the pedal stuck down, so bam i turned off the ignition and coasted into a gas station. When I looked the throttle linkage was caught on one of the plug wires, so I freed it up and got in to start it up again...HOLY SH*T was that a loud bang, much louder than any gun shot I've heard. The funniest thing, you should have seen this old lady hit the deck man my ear was ringing like mad. After I calmed down a bit...started it back up, and hmmm exhaust seems unusally loud, so I look underneath and well not quite split, but my turbo mufflers looked like a couple of watermelons...they are now all bloated from the blast...ahh good time, poor old lady.

[casey]

I never blew mufflers but I do remember a time when my truck flooded, I kept trying to start it Finally thought I sit and wait a minute, and while sitting there I noticed the paint bubbling in the centre of the hood, the b@tch had started on fire, I went in to panic mode trying to get sometihing to put it out, sure is funny now but wasn't then

[theo70]

After I spent all day putting in the headers, I had to drive it to the muffler shop before they closed. After almost passing out from the fumes seeping in from the rust holes in the floor pans, I get there and tell the man to give me turbos (under someone's recommendation) and split pipes out of the back. I was in such a hurry to get it there, I forgot to tell him what size pipes to put on. So now I have 2" exhaust. It performs okay, but it sounds like a four banger. If anybody's seen a pair of tips with 2" in / 3" outlet, let me know...