Exhaust question?

[bigchevytruckdriver]

I was thinking about cutting the mufflers off my 73 2x4 and running straight piped for a while. I have about 3 feet of pipe from the bend below the manifold. So about 4 four feet give or take from manifold. My questions are is this enough pipe to keep the flame thrower affect to a minimum? Little to no flame out of pipe? and will I run any risk of hurting the motor running it like this? What about if I just eliminated the muffler and attached the pipe behind it to the pipe thats there? So I would be moving from exhaust outlet behind tires to in front of tires.
By the way fyi its a bone stock motor. So not crazy cam or compression or anything like that.

 

[RetroC10Sport]

1. It's illegal to run without mufflers on the street. In any state.

2. It's really irritating to others.

3. Yes, you will hurt your engine by not running mufflers. Warped valves, burned valves, ect.

It's not worth it.

 

[bigchevytruckdriver]

Nuff said. Well next cheapest is a set of cherry bombs...or i'll be on e bay!

 

[Old77]

You can find some pretty cheap mufflers on eBay and CL. That'd be your best route

 

[jake wells]

best thing to do is buy cherry bombs and when you get them cut the welds at the end.

continue on and pull the packing out then reassemble and re weld it.and you will have the best sounding glass pack ever.

i have done that to all my truck both of them have true dual 2 1/4 exhaust with gutted 12' cherry bombs.

 

[HotRodPC]

Yeah, you want a little back pressure or the things that Retro mentions can happen. It woudln't be to quick though if you had manifolds and full pipes, but nonetheless a little back pressure is a good thing. Cherry bombs aka glass packs are probably the cheap way out. I'm not real picky on my exhaust sound on my stockers. I've been know to sort through the trash at a muffler shop and snag some mufflers where someone upgraded to duals and flowmasters. Of course it takes 2 trucks that had single exhaust to get matching mufflers, and I prefer quiet on the stocker vehicles too, so it doesn't bother me to be quiet. On the perfomance motors, differant story, but still quiet as reasonably possible since I like element of suprise and the sleeper factor. Some great biggo 64-68 Cadillac mufflers perform well and are nice and quiet. Expensive though.

 

[RetroC10Sport]

Yep, i like nice and quiet... My Blazer has a cherry bomb on it and I just want to kill it with fire.

although, i did like the stock exhaust on my 1992 3.1 V6 Cutlass convertible...A little rumbley with 1.6 roller rockers and a nice cackle to it for a V6...

 

[Irishman999]

Nothing is more obnoxious than those glass pack mufflers! We had one on my Moms Cherokee for a while and it sounded like an airplane. I want to try some of those cheap turbo mufflers from Autozone.

 

[HotRodPC]

I'd do cheap turbo's before I did glass packs. Don't like glass packs at all, but they are a cheap way out to be legal.

 

[82chevy350]

i ran a set of purple hornies and they sounded pretty good

 

[jake wells]

Nothing is more obnoxious than those glass pack mufflers! We had one on my Moms Cherokee for a while and it sounded like an airplane. I want to try some of those cheap turbo mufflers from Auto zone.

What about the Thrush welded chamber mufflers at advance auto? They are cheap and i heard they sound really good.

 

[82chevy350]

Yea they are supposed to sound like flowmaster 40 series they copied the way they were build cause flow let there patent go and everyone took the idea while they had the chance

 

[HotRodPC]

i ran a set of purple hornies and they sounded pretty good

Purple Hornies??? Did Retro have something to do with that???

 

[82chevy350]

Purple Hornies??? Did Retro have something to do with that???

Haha nope these are flowtech purple hornie glasspacks People think I run straight pipe cause there so loud but no complaints from the law or neighbors my dad and neighbor don't get along so when the neighbor pisses him off he jumps in snowball and revs the **** out of it

 

[HotRodPC]

I don't know if people still do it, but back in my younger days, the messicans used to install glass packs backwards on their lowriders. Sounds like a real loud fart can when you let off the gas. NO Pun intended.