My car is WAY too loud...

The 460 in the Hudson is hooked up to 2.5" straight pipes.

I've driven it around through town a bit, and it is obnoxiously loud...it doesn't sound good, it sounds broken...

So, I'm taking it in for mufflers tomorrow....

I was thinking 30" glasspacks. Does that sound like a decent size for a motor this big?

Any other suggestions?

 

What you say ?

 

i have 26" glass packs on a 350 and its real quite but sounds good when im into it. id say 30's should do ya just right. But i all so have 2" off the headers then 2.5" from mufflers back. so i dont know if the size will make much of a deal.

 

Flowmaster 50 series.

 

Yeah 30' sounds about right...
But i love that obnoxious sound
it pisses people off

 

Hook up dem Flowmasters, that 460 will sound awesome.

 

got flames?



fer' Jim

 

if its too loud your tooo old

 

hahaha

dont put flowmasters on it. its not a freeking mustang.

 

For those who like the Straight pipe crackle but not the high decibels...you might want to try any size glasspacks installed backwards...they still muffle but not as much....I used 18 inchers on my T-birds 390 and I love it...deep low tone while runnin...but Crackles like hell when I wanna show off.
Did it on my brother 56 chevy lakes pipes too.


Personally I love the Flowmaster on my 4.3litre Chevy truck...sounds Baja and makes alarms go off...but I think they sound wack on classic cars that aren't "Muscle" cars.

distance from the motor really affects tone and volume too....it's all bout how you want your car too sound. Have fun!

 

No flowmasters. I would put a fart can on before Flowmasters...

This is a 49 hudson, not a Torino....

Thanks for the replies...I guess I'll go with 30" glasspacks and see how it sounds...

 

I'm 31. And its too loud. WAY too loud.

 

It will sound classic man!

 

you are right!if its a custom it dont need to sound like a "rat rod"....

 

I run 38" pacs on my Olds. It has that low, mean grumble that a custom should. And glasspacs wear real quickly, so it'll get louder in no time.

Flowmasters are musclecar muffs.

I don't understand why 29 a freak wants to piss people off. I always hung around folks that you DO NOT want to piss off. To each his own, I guess…

 

First post here so pardon me if i mess it up Dirtybird hit it on the head the closer to the motor the more crack and the longer the tail pipe the deeper the tone you will get as a general rule. I have walker continental glass packs on my 57 and 39 with virtually identical motors and they sound quite different with the longer tail pipes the 57 has it barks a real deep loud drone compared to the 39 that cracks and sets off every car alarm on the street . Hope this helps .
Bus-ter

 

Hey HEY..watch it there...the correct response would be "This is a 49 Hudson, not a MUSTANG".

Have you thought about these: http://store.summitracing.com/partdetail.asp?autofilter=1&part=WLK-17713&N=700+115&autoview=sku

or:

http://store.summitracing.com/partdetail.asp?autofilter=1&part=PTE-H3012&N=700+115&autoview=sku


You might be pleasently surprised...mellow for the most part...cheap...not the hollow underwater burbly 'drag boat sound' of the Flowmasters...just a thought...

 

Flowmasters will make it sound like a throaghty muscle car. You want it to sound like an old kustom you have to go with 22" up to thirty inch for a mellow sound. My fifty Buick is running 24" glasspacks through side lakes pipes and I love the sound when it purrs down the highway. Rags

 

This guy thinks thats a great idea:

 

Three chamber Flowmasters and full tail pipes will sound great. Not loud or adolescent at all. I always thought that a car that is trying to emulate a boat (v-windshield, tail-low stance) should have the healthy burble of one..

 

I have straight pipes with no mufflers going out to my bellflowers. Maybe you just need longer pipes?

 

Bieng an exhaust guy, I'm gonna make a suggestion you may want to do some research on.

Magnaflows.

the basic design is that of a Glasspack- straight through, perforated core.

however, the similarities end there.

it is an "oval" bodied muff...kind of like a stocker. they have a nice, ominous rumble. low db, and only "bark" when you get on it. highway driving is very pleasant, with that same low gurgle, but a near complete lack of "slap"- the annoying noise of open pipes.

Seriously, if you were my customer, I would sell you Mag's.

excellent power,
great sound,
affordable,
and they have a lifetime warranty.

they never burn up, and the only difference I have seen years of driving make to them is an increased "richness" of the tone.

they're like an old trumpet. the new stuff just sounds like crap by comparison.

 

There's a guy in my Dad's imperial club with a built 440 in a '64 300. He runs 3 chamber flowmasters with 18 or 24" glass packs for resonators with about 18" of tail pipe behind the glass packs. Takes the tinny sound out of the flowmasters, much less back rap than glass packs. Really deep sound, too.

 

Where'd you find that picture? I think I've located my dad.

 

Google image search is your friend.

 

I had "jeep" style purple hornies that bolted straight onto the headers of my '57 for 2 days. Thought it would sound cool VERY loud. Bad idea it sounded more like a trash truck. So I put on 2 chamber flowmasters and turn downs before the axle. Now it sounds BITCH! Of course....I have owned 2 mustangs. I thought about Smithys and the like but I think they are too quiet...I guess I'm not that traditional

 

Smittys are what i run. i pulled Flowmasters off my 67 camaro cause i hate them and put Smittys on it just sounds sooo much better Now i can pretend im driving a custom instead of a Mullet mobile

 

Cherry Bombs are back !!!!!!

 

Care to spout off some other stupid cliche?

 

[but a near complete lack of "slap"- the annoying noise of open pipes.]

As an upright bass player, I am 'annoyed' by that statement!

Al Von