Thread: Took a little drive.

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Thanks Lamin8r. Sometimes you look back on life and wonder why certain things ended up the way they did, and when I think back on what my life would have been like without my two Sons, I can't even begin to imagine it. Someone was really looking out for me up there.


Don

Was just curious about the headers,are there mufflers stuck in the extensions like the baffle type they run on dirt cars or are they ran open and if so are they fairly quiet,thks!

Mine on the 27 are capped and run through mufflers so it's pretty quiet.

Don's (blue bucket) headers are capped, but run through the down pipe that was made to hook up an exhaust system. His is loud, but more quiet than when he ran them uncapped. He drove it that way for a couple of years, not sure how he got away with that.

Dans (black rpu) originally had open headers but he bought the inserts from Sanderson to go into them. Even with them in it was loud, so we are experimenting. We first made a plate to go over the baffles, but with holes drilled for exhaust to exit. That was ok, but still loud. Then we bought a bunch of industrial stainless scub pads and wired them to the baffles to see what that would do. It did quiet them down a lot, but the first time he got on it the scrub pads disintegrated and blew out the holes. So now he is just running the Sanderson baffles until we find a better solution. It may take some welding of some diffuser plates inside or whatever, but inside the car with the top up it is pretty loud yet.

Dan's car doesn't seem to like being muffled. After putting the baffles in the first time we found one laying on the floor where it had blown out. That is why he made the round plates and welded the baffles right to them.

When I had my 23 I built my own baffles out of some 2 inch exhaust tubing that I punched full of holes. It really quieted the 350 Chevy in that car down to a very acceptable level.............well, at least I never got stopped for noise violations.

Here are the ones I built for that car.

Don

Originally Posted by Itoldyouso

Thanks Lamin8r. Sometimes you look back on life and wonder why certain things ended up the way they did, and when I think back on what my life would have been like without my two Sons, I can't even begin to imagine it. Someone was really looking out for me up there.


Don

That's Lots of great memories for you Don. Remember when we were young and we all 'planned" our lives?..they rarely ever turn out out planned.

Don't hardly get any better than that !
"Chips off the OLD Block" huh?

That's a great shot of the three cars at the pumps, Don! Bet some heads were turning as you went down the road.

On the pipes, I tried SS scrub pads with the same results, and motorcycle fiberglass wrap that blew out after a few hours I went back to the guys at Car Chemistry and bought their lake header packing kit, which is a bag of SS mesh, and a layer of very dense fiberglass matt as an outer wrap between the baffle plates. That dropped mine to a much more mellow tone, at least until the fiberglass burns out
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