Thread: 27 chevy p/u

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Originally Posted by 34_40

Nah, just making it more your own. What I'm really curious about tho' is how you'll feel about the change(s) in a couple months. I'm wondering how you'll feel with the exhaust noise / tone being closer to your windows.

So maybe you can do an update? Say in July or August..?? If you don't mind being a guinea pig....

with the under the truck exhaust i hated the drone noise.
i installed those 26" headers with the built in mufflers this morning.
it is a bit louder but not bad.
best though.
that drone is gone and i am not getting gassed from that leaky exhaust

Originally Posted by billy zz

with the under the truck exhaust i hated the drone noise.
i installed those 26" headers with the built in mufflers this morning. it is a bit louder but not bad.
best though. that drone is gone and i am not getting gassed from that leaky exhaust

Then 2 thumbs up so far. I added a h-pipe and changed mufflers for the same reason, the dreaded drone! LOL..
I'm just curious how folks like the exhaust note so close to the window is all.

Good looking set of pipes!!!! I must be getting old, sidepipes exiting that close to my ear would kill me, I think!!!!!

Originally Posted by Dave Severson

Good looking set of pipes!!!! I must be getting old, sidepipes exiting that close to my ear would kill me, I think!!!!!

i dont like real noisy stuff.
and this isnt near as bad as many rods i have heard.
now without the mufflers i hated it.

Originally Posted by billy zz

i dont like real noisy stuff.
and this isnt near as bad as many rods i have heard.
now without the mufflers i hated it.

What are the innards for the mufflers? Glass or ?

Originally Posted by Dave Severson

What are the innards for the mufflers? Glass or ?

glass
it kinda looks like a hunk of a comforter or something.
i am glad it is as quiet as it is.
dont get me wrong.
it can be heard but not from 8 blocks away.
is it my imagination or does this truck seem to have a little more pep with this exhaust?

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We like loud.

Originally Posted by pepi

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We like loud.

i have been tinkering with the idea of fabbing up a partial hood for mine.
it looks great on yours!

If they are SWs they will be glass, and go the length of the pipe around 22" You can get augers and short glass pack 12" to build your own side pipes.

I made new baffles for mine and packed them with high temp glass, but it burned out after a couple of months. The baffles still knock down the sound, but the glass trims the high's a bit giving a bit more mellow sound, in my experience. From my youth, seems like the old glass packs (Smitty's, Thrush and later, Cherry Bomb's) would almost always burn out within six months or so and lose their mellow tone.

yesterday at a stop light.
there was a college kid with one of those lil cars with the fart-pipes
he was revving it up and making that funny noise those things make.
when the light turned green i stomped on it for a second.
yeah rice burners are fun.
but they dont make a noise like a v8.....

Face it man that's all they got, totally ignore em that makes them the maddest. It's usually one or the other car farts as loud as it can or turn up the volume on the ipod screaming look at me please. Car ricers are like bike rices are seen and not heard. This class of wheeled vehicles are invisible and uninteresting to me personally.

I laugh to myself when they buzz by as I roar down the road, buzz off from a stand still. Find it amusing they go in and out of the subdivision buzzing like a bumble-bee. Really put the buzz on when the garage is open. Yep they are fun to watch I will give em that. Like any clown show big people in a little car LMAO.

like a bumblebee
thats funny
they DO kinda soundlike a big horsefly.....

update

i did the math.

with the c-6 trans and 3.00 gear in the rear as well as 27" tires

1st 2.46-1

2nd 1,46-1

3rd 1.00-1

2000 rpm 53.55 mph

2500 rpm 67.00 mph

3000 rpm 80.00 mph