Yes, flow better. Isn't that why we pay to get these aftermarket parts on our cars in the first place? To make them perform better than stock? To get that extra flow? To get those extra horsepower? If there's a choice of parts, and with mufflers, if one flows better than another *and* is quieter yet still sounds good, hey that what I want. I don't want to be a teenage punk and set off car alarms when I drive by. I don't want that nastyass drone when I'm crusing down the highway. Maybe YOU do, and that's fine for you. Whatever floats yer boat. That's why I went with Magnaflow. Don't sound so dumbfounded and flummoxed when someone dislikes a product for the same reason you like it. Different strokes after all!

 

I don't think flow is really an issue. If you're pushing around 300hp, the flow loss in pretty minimal. If you're up around 5 or 600hp, then everyone else can tell you that your flowmaster sucks if they can ever catch you.

I want to see a show of hands, how many of you were just dying to buy a flowmaster, but didn't...base simply on the fact that they may cost 2 or 3 ponies.


...but on the other side of the coin, I GUARANTEE that 75% of the people running flowmasters bougth them because of the name, and you KNOW it's true. Flow tests unseen, sound unheard. Most people don't even know that other options are out there.

 

I'm not saying 75% of the people here. I'm talking out there in the real world!!!

 

Oh please. Flowmaster kicks *** and you cant stand it.

 

Lets stay on topic guys.

This pretty much sums it up:


What the hell is so hard to understand? Some people like the sound, so they buy it. Others don't, so they buy another brand. It's non sense to argue opinions on sound. As I stated above, Abubaca pretty much summed up the flow issue.

 

IMHO Flowmaster is as good as the vehicle its attached to. They(flowmaster) have many different units to chose from, sgl chamber race mufflers to multi chamber street mufflers.
Where the 3rd gen cars have a problem is we are trying to squeeze 4,5,600+hp thru a lousy design sgl exhaust setup and still have the performance of a dual exhaust and be reasonable quiet.
A good custom sgl exhaust like a mufflex system cost a ton of money and weighs a ton. It also is a noisy system when its attached to a high power car. The bigger the exhaust with
more cu in and power a car makes, the louder it will be.
We have to live with the fact that we were screwed by poor engineering by GM engineers when it comes to the exhaust
system on our cars.

 

I agree. I've had several systems, the 80 series flow that sounds just like the clip above and every-other-Fbody on the road with the same system, and hated it. Then I had the Hooker. Better, but still not what I wanted. So I bought a Mufflex Spintech system, better than the above, but still not powerful sounding, and a bit heavy. Finally I went to a Mufflex Flowmaster system, and the Flowmaster they include with the Mufflex system defies the stigma associated with single exhaust systems. NEVER heard another F-body sound similar, tone or dB.

 

The force II I have sounds alright: cold start, semi-warm idle/rev

I dont much care for the 80 series, though. To me it sounds a bit hollow.