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replacing muffler with a glass pack ?

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sorry for teh noob question :crazy:
I have a single 3" exaust with a old flowmaster
I was wondering if its worth replacing it with a glass pack?
will I pick up any extra hp

the noise wont really be an issue unless its way loud
besides I would like it to sound a little more beasty
 
If it's a genuine Flowmaster on there now, then no, you won't pick up any HP.
 
is there something wrong with the Flowmaster? if so , just put a 3" turbo muffler on it and call it good.
 
beater_k20 said:
is there something wrong with the Flowmaster? if so , just put a 3" turbo muffler on it and call it good.
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no, just wanted something a little louder:D
 
since i had to cut off the exhaust on mine to get the tranny out, i figured i would just run straight pipes out the back, fuggit
 
I love the sound of my dual glasspacks when I floor the gas. but yeah my neighbors jeep through dual flowmasters is louder or maybe just different sound. (the jeep also has dual 3 inch whereas I only have dual 2.25)
 
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isnt it a requirement in all 50 states that you must have a mullet to purchase glasspack mufflers?
 
Or you could just run them till' their hot then stick a cold hose down them and boom...the packs shatter and you have an open pipe but if johnny rent a cop pulls you over for being too loud and looks under your rig nothing is illegal.... Or so I've heard. :rolleyes:
 
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Or you could just run them till' their hot then stick a cold hose down them and boom...the packs shatter and you have an open pipe but if johnny rent a cop pulls you over for being too loud and looks under your rig nothing is illegal.... Or so I've heard. :rolleyes:
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I once had glass packs on the blazer and could not shatter them. Then i heard some of the new ones can not be shattered like the traditional ones could be. My flowmasters sound alot better anyway.
 
There's nothing wrong with glasspacks. We sell more Magnaflow mufflers than we do flowmasters, which the magnaflow muffler is an absorbtion type muffler, much like a glasspack. Straight through! I have 24" glasspacks on my restored 63 Impala SS, reason one, I was going for a era type restoration, number two, need good flow. Magnaflow's take up too much room for the x-frame and are visibal from the outside, and mufflers look nasty running along the frame rail. Flowmasters have a cool sound, and IMHO thats where it stops. They may be good on true dual application, excluding the convertor, but with convertors and single into dual exhaust, customers who got a flowmaster said they see no increase in anything, but with the magnaflow they do. For me, straight through is the only way to go.
 
Running staight pipes sounds cool for a while, but it starts to get old after a while. I ran it for about 6 months, the cops never bothered me I sat next to a few at stop lights. I wanted to put a Flowmaster on but they are too much $$$ so I got a muffler from performance-curve.com for 30$ and am a lot happier :waytogo:
 
I have true dual 2.25 with glasspacks and I'm tired of it, no low end and its gottan too loud for me on my daily driver. I want to replace them with a good seat of lower toned mufflers.

I'd stick with the muffler if I where you
 
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