Muffler Poll - Haven't seen one here...

It's not the mufflers that give a car a nice sound........

 

A straight 6 with headers but no mufflers does not sound nice...
More like a WWII fighter plane in a dog fight.

I put Brockman Steelpacks 12" and 17" on both my engines, after trying and modifying different length glass packs with gravel, nails, no packing, etc....
I like to hear the engine responding, but without the violent noise at higher rpm.

The porters look like they got the same welded sheet metal outer casing like smithy's.
I never liked the thin and muted resonance this creates hovering over each exhaust pulse.
You have to step back from the outlet to be able to record and hear it.

I like the heavy gauge bullet style casings better, like Brockman uses.
Cool metallic overtones, very unlike the dead thud of thin sheet metal.

Straight through mufflers under 20" length let you hear more engine, above that you get more muffler and silencing.

 

I'll make it a little easier on ya CW...heres a link to "Stickshift" on youtube!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g3i4fDHZ6Ig

 

Those clips on the Porter site sound great.

 

My favorites were the old Walker Continental glass packs, aka Blue Swingers. Nice deep tone, no cackle. Don't make 'em anymore but I took the Stude down and had the local shop put duals on it and they used "Jones" glasspacks, yeah, how generic is that? They were kind of "splattery" sounding at first and I wasn't diggin' 'em much but after I got them burned out a little they sound like the old Walkers. Nice deep rumble, not annoying at highway RPM. Since I got them burned out a little I can't drive the car enough!

 

Should we believe those clips ?

 

MY old 33 flat head had 4 smitties, steel packs, and 4 2" pipes, straight to back bumper, got a ticket for loud pipes , showed cop the 4 mufflers, and he said don't car about that, I heard you 6 blocks away when you pulled out from a stop sign.

took two green hornets and welded them to the back of the 4 pipes to quiet it down some what.

Beautiful sounding pipes though.

Many years ago

trader jack

 

Glad to find out about the Porters again...Nothing sounded better back in the fifties.
Got to replace the smitties now that I know........Thanks

 

I use bluestreak glasspacks ...they're made in Benicia Ca. where i live!

 

Sound clips on their site sound really awesome. Hope thats the real thing.

 

I gotta think the examples in the porter site are real. 'course also gotta realize it's a info-mercial. I was informed about Porters by a friend who told me they're the real deal. They're going on my '56 Y-Block for sure. Think I'll like 'em but if not it ain't rocket surgery to swap 'em out.

Actually I think it was that Elvis impersonator in the Porter infomercial that did it for me !

 

Smithy's - the original Hot Rod muffler, since 1920

 

porter steel pac mufflers are still being made. check out the website at www.portermufflers.com

 

No mufflers for me, Loud pipes save lives.

 

My dad used to run thrush mufflers. I have a set of short glasspacks on the 51. Not sure who they were made by. They came with the truck

 

I perfer thrush

 

Cherry Bombs will ALWAYS be my favorite...

("Disturbing the Peace since 1968"...just like me! Ha Ha!)

But, when I wanted my cars a little quieter, I'd use Walker DynoMax mufflers, and loved their tone as well.

 

I'm running 2 Chrome Harley mufflers on my flathead. and they sound sweet

 

none

 

I'm interested. Are you an Alliance vendor?

 

Thats how we run all of our stuff

 

Three chamber Flowmasters on my roadster.
Two reasons.

1. A hot rod is about performance to me.

2. I got the "look at me with no mufflers" thing outta' my system when I was 18.

 

I install the mufflers to match the theme of the car. If the car promotes the fire belching need that's what it gets and if it needs the cacklin pipes that's what it gets. ACME MUFFLERS----NO MUFF TO TUFF !! WE AIM TO PLEASE >>>>.

 

Here is a pic of my Hooker Turndown mufflers on my 56' Bel-Air! They have a nice crisp rumble when you get on the pedal!

 

Straights with 4" Harley baffles.

 

3" pipes with sprint car mufflers, loud pipes save lives! Hank

 

I am running a set of Walker generic glasspacks on my flathead. They appear to be Thrush without the coating on them. They also sound like the old Walker Continentals.

 

has anyone got a 4 banger with good sounding mufflers ?? ............ steve

 

It depends on the car. Either Thrush or Turbos. I;m running blown out Thrush on my Nova right behind the collectors now, my 46 ran Turbos, my 32 Chevy ran Turbos, my 40 ran Thrush with full length pipes.
Most of my cars ran Thrush, the price and sound were right.

 

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