And I was thinkin' 2" X 2 pipes for a 235 seems a bit too open. Am I thinking too much, or should I restrict the pipes that go from the headers to the lakes? I know it would sound better with normal exhaust, under the car with mufflers, but I want the side pipes for aesthetics.
I had full lakes on my '55 Chevy back in the day, but they ran closed up when in town or the coppers would nab ya. On the road a couple of buddies leaned out of the back windows and opened them up. Just flipped the cap. Didn't have baffles or any of that stuff that I ever knew. Guess ya could jam a sos pad in it .. ??
It may be too open but its about the look run em and see about baffles later. One of the guys from my car club is running a 53 with lakes (open/un-baffled) but behind a 327. One of the best sounding cars i've heard.
Yep. It's gonna be a custom so they are mainly for looks, but they still have to function. I can't put non-functional parts on my car. I just want it to sound & perform the best it can with the open lakes. I've had the same engine with 2" straight out the back before, and it sounded like shit. I just don't want it to sound like that.
Why not,it's a custom,you said yourself it's about aesthetics.Run both 'apparently a hell of a lot of custom guys did way back when.I run hidden glasspacks for the deep mellow tone that I think sounds classy,then dummy lakes cause I like the look of 'em Best of luck,whatever you decide.Lake pipes on a kustom are like big tits on a hot chick,not essential,but they improve the view! Paul
Personally, I think Lakes, without running the exhaust thru a mellow muffler first, sounds like shit...there is no "tone" to it...it's like a flat blak paint...no individual thought to it -- following the crowd. IF you need to have workable parts on the car, spend some extra money to put on a split manifold (or header)...that'll make it sound like a true kustom...and there's nothing better than a six bellowing thru a pair of mufflers... I'm assuming your '53 is a Chevy...??? R-
take a look at sites like Summit Racing for extremely short mufflers that you can run inside fenderwell before going to Lakes. Guess you already have split manifold.
I think inlines through lakes sound cool, but if I were to do it I'd get exhaust plummed all the way back through some mufflers, and then uncap them whenever I wish to annoy old ladies at the lights.
That looks nice, I like how you molded them into the running board. I'm gonna be using the slash cut pipes, with no flange though, so they gotsta' be funcitonal! I'll have to look into this some more.
haha i just bolted up the lakes pipes to my falcon 250 then. I'm running a split header into 2" pipes and chambered mufflers up to just before the rear wheel, and then have a hidden inlet into slash cut lakes pipes. The car sounded really good without the lakes on it, but I just finished them and now it baffles like hell. I think I'll try stuffing some stainless steel wool up past the inlet to stop the noise from vibrating up the pipe. I'm hoping that will help it
I don't have any problems with dummy lake pipes, a LOT of customs in the 50's had them. But anyway...I'm running 2" pipes on my 46 Chev, but it's got a 292 six in it, but sounds great with Brockman Mellowtone mufflers. With your set-up, I'd run 1 3/4 pipes, the same size lake pipes, and put some motorcycle baffles in them, maybe 2 sets for each pipe. Should sound great, and not too loud. I know they make them that size.
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