Technical Muffler Choices on traditional roadster

I am working on a 1934 Ford Roadster project, very traditional build, flathead powered.
The only mufflers that I am currently looking at are Smithys, I have Fenton Headers, and that is about it, not finding to many options, I could use some cherry bombs, but I do not think they would be
correct for the early car feel and look. suggestions welcomed.

 

I think Porters sound nice on a warm Flat head.


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Porters & cherry bomb are period pieces but Smitty's are as traditional as the day is long. HRP

 

Smitty's are what I am looking for, but all I see are Smithy's, are these the same?

 

Smithy's are what they are. Smitty's is mis-speak.

 

Yes and mine rusted out in 3 years , they don't appear to be made with galvinized metal I bought some tractor mufflers at a farm store .. Same look all galvinized and cheaper

 

You dont need no stinkin mufflers!!!!! I have a 26 T modified with an exhust system all of about 6 feet long. When I first built the car I had smittys on it and it was way to quite so I took them off and ran straight pipes. Even with straight pipes and being such a short system it is not loud at all.

 

What are these muffler things you speak of?

--louis

 

I also started out with Smithy's on my roadster/flathead with exhaust ran all the way to the back. Took them off after a month and just ran with straight pipes. Awesome sound.

 

Porter Mufflers will paste a grin on you face.

 

Porters or Smithy's are about as traditional as it gets and both sound about as sweet as you are going to find on a flatty. My Ol' Man was partial to Smithy's, I am not sure why.

Steel packs have a different sound then glass packs.

Its a thing that roadster guys know a lot about if they are from a cooler climate, somebody's mom knits it and you wrap it around your neck when the nights get nippy.

 

I like Brockman Mellow Tones myself. Steel pack of course.

 

Porter Mufflers, they are handmade out of very heavy material in the US by people whom care. They are very affordable and will be at your home days after ordering.

 

Another vote for steel packed Brockman Mellow tones. I get a lot of nice comments on the sound of my flathead.

 

If possible, try to hear the Smithy and the Porter on an engine like yours at a car show, i.e., OHV versus flathead. They definitely sound different. I don't care for the Porter sound but like and bought Smithy's. Regular glass packs like Cherry bombs sound good too, but are a little louder than Smithy and Porter.
As it relates to rusting out, one of the main reasons for the rust is that guys start their engines and run them for only a few minutes. That is long enough to get moisture (water) in the mufflers that just sits in there doing its rusting thing. If you bring you engine up to operating temperature before shutting it off, much of the moisture evaporates in the exhaust system and you reduce premature rusting of exhaust components.

 

Born & raised in the Sunny South,excuse the spelling but from the time I was a kid that's what everyone in my neck of the woods called them...Smitty's! HRP

 

I know there smithy but up here in the frozen north there also called smittys.

 

I've used smitty's in the past and found them to be really quiet, but a great tone. I've only had one pair of porter's so far, but they sound fantastic, are built very well, and I like the louder rowdier sound. Listen to some similar engines with the mufflers you are considering and decide what sound you want. I have never bought thrush glass packs new, but when I bought my '62 Galaxie it had a pair of super old thrush's on there and it was easily the best sounding car I ever had.

 

Here's a video of a flathead with porter mufflers.....fast forward to the 2 min. mark to hear it run.

 

Ollden days comparison.....Smithys=Wal-Mart...Porters=Neiman-Marcus.......Porter definately sounds better,last longer..

 

Back inna day, most steel packs had shavings from mild steel turnings from a machine shop somewhere, and they smoked like hell when you fired them off the first time till the cutting oil burned off the shavings. Then they started rusting (the shavings). The rusting was accelerated by water vapor in the exhaust and soon they sorta went away and the mufflers got louder. That was the saving grace for glass packs as they remained at the same sound level longer, unless you got them good and hot and the ran a water hose up the pipes and cold shocked the glass fibers so that they fractured into fragments that escaped out the tailpipe. But to most of us, the glasspacks didn't sound the same. Steel packs had a deeper, more mellow tone.
The stainless steel shavings now in Porters should last a long time without changing sound level or tone.
My roadster has "Spiral Turbo" baffles in the collectors and their extensions, but if I had a hot rod with an undercar exhaust, it would soon have Porters.

 

I had Smithy's (Smitty's) on my '32 but I thought they were too quiet. I put a pair of 12" Cherry Bombs on it and I like the sound much better.

 

I second the Brockman, sound great with a Flatty and reasonably priced.

 

had smithys on my rds pu, to quiet and rusted out fast. have porters stl pak now, still to quiet. 27-T i'm building now will have straight pipes. steel in old steelpaks in the 50's would rust out and had an awsom sound.

 

Smitty's, Porters, Equa-Flows, Advance, Thrush, Belond,---All from the 50's.

 

I'm going to use a pair of Hollywood Deep-Tone.

 

When I was at the Porter booth a few years ago the guy told me machine shops didn't want to sell there stainless steel shaving to them anymore and it was to time consuming to wash all the cutting oil out of them so they went to wrapping them with steel wool.

What can you tell me about these mufflers? I'm looking for info. on them. http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/threads/hollywood-deeptones.933559/

 

Muffler? We don't need no stinking mufflers. Straight pipes