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Old May 2, 2007 | 08:29 AM
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Single 3" Muffler suggestions

I have a 3" Dynomax intermediate pipe and a 3" Spintech muffler that dumps on the driver side in the stock location. I hate the sound. It's raspy and cheap sounding... not how a 10.5:1 mild cammed 350 should sound. It sounds more like a Buick station wagon with a hole in the muffler.

So... off with the spintech and on with...? I'm thinking about either a Dynomax ultra-flow or a Hooker Aerochamber. This car isn't a daily driver, so I don't mind if it's real loud. The loudness of the spintech is ok, it's just the tone I hate. So, anybody have any experience with the ultra-flow and the aerochamber that can give me come sort of comparison? Which will do a better job of letting the lower frequencies through but will block the higher frequency crap?

Here's a clip of the spintech: http://www.iroczone.com/technical/Exhaust/Spintech3.AVI

In the clip, the car actually sounds really good because my camera didn't capture any of the high frequency hash. Now I need a muffler to do the same thing.
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Old May 3, 2007 | 09:56 PM
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Re: Single 3" Muffler suggestions

The ultra flow does sound real somooth and clean, but not wimpy. The aero chambers sound ok, if you have a mild cammed 350 either should sound pretty sweet.
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Old May 4, 2007 | 04:43 PM
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Car: '92 RS, '84 Z28
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Re: Single 3" Muffler suggestions

Its not exactly apples to apples but click the link in my sig for a clip of a Ultra flo 3 in 3out. this is a LO3 no cat

Sounds pretty good, deep sounding, not like you said a buick with a hole in the mufller.

Im stepping up to a 383 and 3" duals with classic chambered powersticks.

Kevin

Plus if you order thru summit you can get 15 summit bucks back right now when you buya ultra flo muffler

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Old May 7, 2007 | 09:13 AM
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Re: Single 3" Muffler suggestions

Your website says you're using the 17220. That's the Bullet muffler. I can't imagine that bullet muffler doing any better on removing the high frequency garbage that my spintech doesn't filter. I was thinking more along the lines of this muffler:
http://store.summitracing.com/partde...5&autoview=sku

It's a stright-thru design, but with a lot more fiberglass packing than the bullet.
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Old May 7, 2007 | 09:43 AM
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Re: Single 3" Muffler suggestions

Im not using a bullet muffler, summit has the wrong pic here it is in jegs http://www.jegs.com/webapp/wcs/store...10002_17268_-1

I didnt want a bullet I figured it would rasp to much.

But to use the muffler i did, I made my catback to accept a center in muffler instead of offset.

kevin
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Old May 7, 2007 | 10:02 AM
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Re: Single 3" Muffler suggestions

I personally would recommend the hooker aerochamber. This muffler has a really low tone but it is louder, you will barely be able to hear the exhuast at a cruise but it gets louder when you romp on it.
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