Damn, you all crack me up.LOL! You just click together.
As to mufflers, anything with fiberglass I ever ran I burned out. We seem to live
now with a bunch of high $$$-junk. Here in New Mexico we have a large car and
truck hotrod culture. Every time my wife and I head into town we seem to comment
on the weird sounding exaust. Not how loud, just "was that a weed whip? sound
affect from a cheep syfi movie? 1 out of 40-50 sound old school bad a**. In the
70s-80s headers, long glass pack (Thrush-Cherry Bomb- Smitty's-Purple Hornies ect.)
with short pipeing sounded good but would burn the packing out in a few months
like stroker402 mentioned.
Full length to bumper glass pack would rapp and sound weird, so to get
away from that you went to a "Turbo 2 baffle style, Thrush-Cherry Bomb again"
Sounded great, until the outer skin would flutter at idle, remember that?
Back then a muffler quieted the sound without loosing the open header profile.
Now it seems the aim is to not' sound like a well tuned engine? What happened,
I'm OLD
But damn, I love the sound of a well tuned engine, loud or quiet.
Stroker402, glass packs never lasted long for me just like yours.
Try Porter steel packs, I think they are still around. I think Porter is
the right name, they lasted longer than glass packed with slightly
different sound but still like a glass pack.
Rick
