I just got one thing to say. THEY SOUND COOL. I have not gotten to the junk yard yet to pick up final turbo parts so I installed a couple glass packs today. I love it. low restriction too.
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6.2 and Glass packs
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I just got one thing to say. THEY SOUND COOL. I have not gotten to the junk yard yet to pick up final turbo parts so I installed a couple glass packs today. I love it. low restriction too.
ssped said:
Just know one thing, after the soot fills the glass it will be as bad as a straight pipe, which you might like as far as sound but you will be loud for other people.
Glass packs are not good for diesels in general.
BKinzey
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4x4_76
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imiceman44 said:Just know one thing, after the soot fills the glass it will be as bad as a straight pipe, which you might like as far as sound but you will be loud for other people.
Glass packs are not good for diesels in general.
Yep, they work fine for some time, but get louder and louder 'till they are no good.
Thats fine by me(I saw that on another thread). They are 20$ a piece and I am going turbo soon.(just no soon enough) Then I will straight pipe it.
You know I asked this over on the http://www.62-65-dieselpage.com/ forums and guys basically laughed at the idea of Cherry Bombs or Glass Packs being bad for a diesel. One guy had been running them for decades on his 6.2L and never had any issues.
Also consider many of the modern diesel performance mufflers are fancy cherry bombs.
That said at $23 each at the local Auto Zone I love my Cherry Bombs. If I have to replace them in a few years how much am I out?
Then again I can barely hear them over the engine...CUCV's don't have much for sound deadener.
Did notice a little seat of the pants power increase though.
Also consider many of the modern diesel performance mufflers are fancy cherry bombs.
That said at $23 each at the local Auto Zone I love my Cherry Bombs. If I have to replace them in a few years how much am I out?
Then again I can barely hear them over the engine...CUCV's don't have much for sound deadener.
Did notice a little seat of the pants power increase though.
original balzer
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I put new "blue streak" glass packs on my 84. It sounded sweet, with a low rumble. Three months later they was LOUD I dont know if they fill with soot or the EGT is hot enuff to burn the fiberglass out of them. But they got LOUD, still sounded cool, just anoying on long drives.
Balzer
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original balzer said:
Yeah,
I was in the industry back home we used to make the glass packs for cars, and when we started making them for diesel the only thing that worked longer was having bigger holes in the pipes so soot doesn't plug them but just makes them smaller, and we used to pack them more with fiberglass.
They would last about a couple of years that way and the muffler would rot away before that anyway, they were cheap steel mufflers not SS so people didn't care.
