Iroc-Dennis

hello

do any now here what the best place is for a flowmaster mufler (singel)
under a third gen is not much place!
but is there a difrent where you put them???
for the axle or after the axle?
or closer to the headers??


gr dennis

(i have a flowmaster super 40 3")

five7kid

iTrader: (14)

The best place is in the stock location. Have a 3" tailpipe fabricated for it.

Stephen

iTrader: (12)

If you go single in/dual out, put it in the stock location. If you go with a bullet-style muffler, put it under the rear seat, before the axle, but after the cat.

MrBrooks

The best place for a Flowmaster is in the bottom of the closest dumpster!! But thats just an opinion

chevymetal

Beat me to it...

EndlessSummer85

Yea I was gonna say the trash, but that works too.

Stephen

iTrader: (12)

Why are ya'll trashing Flowmaster? I love the Flowmaster sound, and they do flow real good. Ya'll are acting like they are glasspacks.

Iroc-Dennis

but if you don`t have a cat anymore!!!
i have hedman headers no cat and a stock empty mufler!!

gr dennis

Stephen

iTrader: (12)

OK....Put a bullet one after where the cat USED to be...

soultron

iTrader: (2)

Wow, that's brutal, yet honest.

rob32

ok, i have the same question. i have my stock exhaust wantin to remove the cat and replace muffler wit my flowmaster 40 series. what i'm gonna do is remove my cat, put the flowmaster right where the cat was... clamp it up and have it dump straight out of the muffler

EndlessSummer85

That'll work, but I'd put a turndown on the outlet of the muffler, just so the bottom of your car doesn't turn black.
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Chokemaster is the wal-mart brand of exhaust. Your buying it for the sound, not the performance. There's a lot better exhaust systems and mufflers out there that flow better and imo sound better. But different stokes for different folks.

89RS_82Z

iTrader: (2)

yea, the down side to the flows is that every preppy my daddy got me a Z71 high school boy puts flows on his pile o crap Z71 and thinks its the fastest truck known to man, so you have that sound, although a Flow80 the direct replacement for our cars sounds pretty good, not like the 40's and 30's, and they sound even better if you got headers and no cat. I have heard people say that the hooker areochambers sound good, and flows good, never heard one. can always go with a glass pack where tha cat used to be and run 3" pipe with a "Y" pipe at the end, it may pop and all but will flow good, the early thrid gen Z28's split right over the rear axel and went to dual mufflers thats another set up to go with once you find the muffler you want to go with, and that set up gives you more options than a direct replacement here a a pic of a scale model of a 82 Z28's underside so you can see how the exhaust was run on one incase you never seen one before

slow_90firebird

Im sure someone good at custom bending could get a flowmaster 40 under the car where the cat used to be. It would sound sick because the extra length of pipe.

Also, if you like that chambered flowmaster sound, but want really loud, there is another alternative. Get one of the cherry bomb or IMCO (same brand different names) Extreme series single chamber mufflers. They are real loud and mean. And small.

These are the extremes as part of a mustang system:

rob32

[quote=EndlessSummer85;3562984]That'll work, but I'd put a turndown on the outlet of the muffler, just so the bottom of your car doesn't turn black.
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My friend suggested the turn down simply so it would be louder b/c of the fact of bouncing off the road/ reverberating into the cabin. will it sound the same if i bolt it straight upto my cat?

EndlessSummer85

If your afraid that It'll become to loud you can have the turn down facing down and out to the side, that will help a little. I don't understand what you trying to ask about bolting it to the cat... If you just run a cat and have a turn down off the cat??? It won't have the best sound, but it would be loud. If you bolt the muffler right to the cat??? I would have some kind of pipe in there, atleast 6-12''. Hope that answers it for ya.

Stephen

iTrader: (12)

Here's my LS1 cat back on my L98...Notice the muffler is just behind where the cat fits, maybe 10".

http://www.texas-speed.com

EndlessSummer85

TSP rumbler is designed to have a bullet muffler, a flowmaster might be to big... Your gonna have to get the exhaust up and see where It will fit (somewhere in the I pipe). But yea around 10'' behind the cat should be about right.

Stephen

iTrader: (12)

Yep. Flowmaster makes a bullet style "race only" version one, but I think it's a 1 chamber, so it be barely be quieter than no muffler at all, which is what I want, my wallet just keeps telling me no......

EndlessSummer85

Lol I hear ya, i'm gonna do a similar exhaust setup, but gonna use a chambered muffler from classic chambered. Gonna be Headers, y-pipe muffler, dump. Should be a little loud :-)

Stephen

iTrader: (12)

I found a tacked together, but unfinished Boom Tube style tip CHEAP. I'll either use that, or an angle cut oval pipe, no tip.

MrBrooks

I should maybe clearify my previous statement. While the sound of a flowmaster has become tired to my ear. I was refering to the crossflow/stock replacement type muffler of any name for that matter. I have come to realize that type of muff is the source of the bubbly blat blat noise these cars make on letting off the gas. that noise has always turned my stomach. ANY thru-flow muffler(save a glasspack) is a step up.

8T9 BANDIT

JUST GO BORLA!!!!!

Stephen

iTrader: (12)

Better have a DEEP wallet!

EndlessSummer85

Borla's JUNK sounds like crap expensive and heavy as hell. I'd go with chokemaster before borla...

stage20

iTrader: (3)

a flowmaster makes a great wheel chock.

nightryder

does magnaflow make a crossflow muffler ?
i think it would sound alot better than flowmaster

Stephen

iTrader: (12)

My Magnaflow is a "buller" muffler, about 10" behind the cat, before the pipe goes over the axle.

stage20

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yes, and its a ton less noise.
hooker gets nasty when you hit the gas, but its mellow at idle and cruising as well.

dynomax ftw!

8T9 BANDIT

stephen, i would love to hear a sound clip of ur exhaust. what kind of header's r u running?

Stephen

iTrader: (12)

Only clip I have, is my car at idle, when I was filming my sequential tail lights. Stock manifold, stock y-pipe, Magnaflow 3"cat.

8T9 BANDIT

dude, have u ever read any threads in here? ever read the stickies? borla is actually one of about 4 catbacks that is very high quality. and u must be the first to say it sounds like cr**, the tunable borla, and the gmmg r the best sounding catbacks ive ever heard ,being a 3rdgen or a 4thgen. not counting custom jobs. and ive heard alot! the only thing u are right about is that its a bit heavy. but so are subframe connectors but sometimes u have to give up weight for performance....but thats just my opinion i guess?

Stephen

iTrader: (12)

Here's a clip I filmed today. Audio quality isn't the best on my camera.