open lake pipes!

my rides has a 350 chevy with stock manifolds and dual glasspacks but no tailpipes, I am wanting to hook up my lake pipes and run them for full time exhaust.I am looking for people who have ran that setup before and some pros and cons not guesses and naysayers but people that are or have ran their lakepipes open.Thanks fellas

 

I have a set on my 57 Chevy pickup that are live, in fact, it's the only pipes it's got.

Not too terribly loud on the interstate since I ditched the turbo 350 and went to a 700R4. That change by itself dropped the RPM's almost 30%.

Before that, a two hour trip would ring your ears good. It sure has eliminated the need for a stereo.

I like em.

 

Had open lake pipes on my brothers 55 fairlane, it's got a 302 with a 3 speed stick in it, it was loud as hell and popped loud when you would shift.. I loved it.

 

I've run 'em open on several cars. Not lately to clarify.

Depending on your engine build you'll have a certain RPM range that is unberable, but not much more than your glass packs with no tail pipes.
Mayhaps it'll even be queiter inside because you have nothing under your feet to resonate.

I'm going to suggest that the local gostaple may decide to give you grief but that's not anything I can be sure of. My experience here is that they have a tendency to overlook us guys with the older rides.

 

Ive got lake pipes on my 55 fairlane but its not the only set of pipes.I have them capped and when I want to make the Y block bark I can un cap them. The other pipes have smittys and go out the back
I like the option of the caps because on long rides its nice to hear the car in case of falling parts and then its nice to make an entrance
So I have both

 

PM Alex Gambino of Gambino Kustoms. I think His wife suzie is running straight out the lake pipes on her Catalina. The car sounds really good it has a real knarly throaty tone to it.

 

My '50 buick with a straight 8 and single exhaust had NO sound with the stock glasspack. So I ran the exhaust straight out the single lake pipe and it was loud as hell! In fact is was too loud so I dropped a baffle (removed from the glasspack) in the down pipe coming off the manifold and now it has a pretty good tone. I plan on splitting the exhaust soon and running 2 lakes.

 

I've run open lakers for about 2 years and it helped out with sound on my pontiac straight eight, however, the one draw back is people getting out, burning their ankles. Also, I never noticed a difference in discoloration or performance really.

 

Ive got a 1950 Ford with a 350 in it and I ran pipes out the back through some Smithy glasspacks and I connected my Lakes out the side. It has a great sound to it when un-capped. A mellow tone half throttle and a great throaty sound when you wrap on the pedal. It doesn't seem to draw any unwanted attention, of the red and blue lite persuasion, either.....Knock on wood.

 

thats right open lakes on the wifes car,only problem theres been is 3 years ago rolling into long beach at 1 a.m.we got a ticket from one of the LBC's finest for modified exhaust (the next day at the no love party jesse signed it)othere than that its been trouble free and the wifes car gets driven every where,EVERY where.the fuck you 54 also has strait pipes.

like ''kirk'' says
dirty loud and fast

CATION strait pipes are cell phone friendly