Token

I have Hooker Super Competition shorty headers bolted to a 3" y-pipe, which is connected to a Hooker Super Competition 3" catback with no catalytic converter... The exhaust is so loud on acceleration that I can't hear my girlfriend talk. She doesn't like it that loud. She did when it was new, but now it's annoying.

Can I stuff the muffler with steel wool without hurting performance?

RebelTillDeath3

The growl of your car is more important than what any woman has to say.

TA5LiterHO

You may want to just change the muffler to a quieter one.

twistydick

:yourock:

91TPI5.7

my car is really loud, but my girl knows better, if its the way i like it, she can (and will) live with it,

of coarse mine isnt a daily driver

Token

problem solved- I stuffed the I-pipe with a rolled up aluminum screen about 3x2 feet... It dropped the noise level significantly and seems to be holding up to the exhaust heat (after 25-30 miles that is). It doesn't smoke or melt, and it's pretty nifty.

ShiftyCapone

iTrader: (7)

Get a cat and your exhuast will be much quieter.

Xophertony

along with better for the environment you polution maker you

sqzbox

Loud pipes save lives!! My wife say's, why don't you turn on the radio? A: My pipes are the only music I need!

iroc-ice

Your a Beast!!!!!:hail: Thanx for the new sig.

iroc-ice

Oops forgot to turn it on.

JLP

have you thought about sound proofing your car????
Right now I have no carpet or drain hole and you cant hear anyhing inside the car but rumbling. With the carpet on it was "better" but Im sure you can dampen the sound almost completely. The guys on the sound board know about this kind of stuff

brent4a

Easier and cheaper to get her some ear plugs

CaysE

Dynomat. Don't compromise performance for "quality time."

Mr. Cool (lol)

five7kid

iTrader: (14)

Dynomax 3" Bullet muffler where the cat is supposed to be.

(Or put a cat in there.)

90firebird

i heard that stuff is really heavy, though...

89_305TransAm

I must be lucky then, my gf loves the sound of my hooker aerochamber

I wouldnt stuff **** in the pipe tho, i would just swap in a diff muffler..

Tobias05

:hail: exactly
...must be why i don't have one...

Brandon

dsaint1347

I too want to regret getting such a loud muffler. Neighbors in NYC are getting tired of me waking them up a 4:00 in the morning.

I think they make tips that quiet down the noise a bit.

ssxmac

iTrader: (1)

My american thunder isnt too lound unless it gets over 2 grand. Never heard the hooker cat back on open 2055's before though.

70BuickSleeper

Im running the 2055's, no cat, and the hooker catback for the 86 up, i forget the part number. It sounds good, a little loud, but only when you get on it. Eventually when I find some money I'll put in a high flow cat, that should bring it down a bit. 84 z28, edelbrock intake, speed demon carb, no emissions, mallory hei. All computers must die... hehe unless you set up it real good.

onebinky

iTrader: (1)

I must have some really nice neighbors then. I ran open headers for about a week last summer and not one said a word to me. And I'm about to do it again for another week while I fab up the new exhaust. This time with twice the power output, and longtubes instead of shorties

MrDude_1

put a bullet where the cat goes..

then a glass pack in the I pipe

and then a dynomax muffler.






then go out and make these idiots wonder how you're passing them when they cant even hear your car at WOT.



LOUD DOES NOT EQUAL FAST

dsaint1347

Like I said I live in a NYC nothing where it's highly congested. Their complaint is mostly my car setting off alarms.

The other bad thing is that my wife can hear me when I come down the block, so it would be hard for me to sneak up on her and find her with the milkman. So much for the element of suprise.

CaysE

I always wondered about putting a glasspack in place of the i-pipe. I assume you have this setup? How about glasspacking the whole length of the exhaust? :lala:

MrDude_1

lol, naa, i dont have it... atleast not yet

im toying with the idea, but until i get the longtubes and dual cutouts (electric cutouts) im not going to do it...

basicly my idea is this: when i want to be loud, i have the cutouts.
but for the rest of the time, i can have a "normal" quiet car. clearly hear the radio, talk to girls, ect.
the performance change isnt any diffrent, but the noise level is.

my plan calls for the cutouts after the headers, custom shaped tubing to round BETWEEN the trans and crossmember, into a Y pipe that has a short glasspack/bullet then over the axle into a quiet muffler. goal is to walk softly and carry a big stick.

88IROC350TPI

Does Dynomax even make a 3" catback for our cars?

nick418

i hate the listening to my gf..... but love to listen to my dual magnaflow exhuast system

onebinky

iTrader: (1)

Why's your exhaust have headlights?