Walker Super Turbo muffler sound check

[Craig Artzner]

Well I put them both on tonight and I must say, not much of a difference. I don't know what it is. My truck is now slightly quieter than before but not much. When I listen to it idle most of the exhaust noise seems to come from the headers, not the tailpipe. And it's not a light tapping that usually occurs when you have bad gasket, it's an overall "rumble". But when cruising there's not much sound at all.

Either the headers have a leak other than the gasket or the noise is just inherent to the headers. It almost seems that even if I put stock silent mufflers on there would still be a bit of a rumble from the header area.

It's not a big deal and I'm not buying any more mufflers. Maybe I'm just being to picky.

 

[Chevy305]

If they are cheap headers, you get what you pay for...

 

[Craig Artzner]

If they are cheap headers, you get what you pay for...

Well they aren't cheap. But they are old. They're a set of Hooker Super Comps...I have the receipt for them...they were installed in 1977!

 

[Cricket]

IMCO super turbos are quieter than Dynomax, if you want a little rumble but a quiet cruise those are the ones to buy.

 

[Chevy305]

Well they aren't cheap. But they are old. They're a set of Hooker Super Comps...I have the receipt for them...they were installed in 1977!

WOW! And they are still in good shape??? You must take some pictures!!!

 

[blazinzuk]

Headers are louder than manifolds cause they are way thinner. A couple of ways you could quite it down, a crossover pipe on a dual exhaust will quite it down. I don't remember if you have one or not. Other way would be some baffles http://store.summitracing.com/partdetail.asp?autofilter=1∂=DTC%2D72%2D32520&N=700+115&autoview=sku

or these
http://store.summitracing.com/partdetail.asp?autofilter=1∂=CCI%2D3DI22R&N=700+115&autoview=sku


or get some cheap cherry bombs and put them before the mufflers. I ran cherry bombs with a turbo muffler on my blazer for a while and it was pretty quite at idle and under light acceleration.

This is of course assuming that most of your noise is coming from the mufflers but I have heard trucks with headers that are pretty quite. Dang near stock sounding