Where can I get a set of cheap headers for a 310 Wildcat engine.......if they even exist. Or should I hold my money and wait for a running 455? I dont know what to do. Im jelous. Went to a show today. SO MANY CARS WITH HEADERS. I want my car to be loud too. What should I do.
I guess I have mixed feelings on it.... On one hand.... You can get a great sounding exhaust through your stock manifolds. Just get good big duals, with nice mufflers. It won't be cheap, but you can get whatever sound you want. But with that said..... I went through my "loud stage" a while back. Nowadays, I like a much softer exhaust. Something like Flowmasters would be perfect. I've had "Twisters" on my driver for about 6 months now and I really hate them the longer I have them. Too darn loud and cackly. I'm about to yank them off and put some cheepie Summit turbos on it or something. I heard some before I got them and really liked the sound..... after I heard them installed on my car I asked why it was so much louder than the car I heard before...... He tells me that the other car had catylitic(sp?) converters on it. oh: Anyways....Loud doesn't equal fast in my book at all. As a matter of fact, the most impressive sound I've ever heard from two tailpipes was in a 70ish street small block Nova that ran 10.0s. They tried to make it a real sleeper and had the quietest mufflers they could get on it. (Street tires, no visable guages, bench seat, column shift, etc..) Well... I don't care how "quiet" a muffler you buy, you can't hide 600-700??HP and it sounded awesome! It's like you could almost hear every single combustion one at a time coming through the pipes. Very neat sound. But opinions are like.....uh um..... well.. you know the rest. :gt: Good luck in whetever you choose to do! :beer
I've always wondered what a 3 inch exhaust system would do to the sound of the exhaust. Apart from the fact that I'd probably have to sacrifice a bit of power would the sound be 'deeper' or would it sound more "hollow" or would it just sound the same.
i used to have a 91 ranger 4.0. it had a stock exaust untill i decided to through a flowmaster on there. would have gone with some headers but they were a little too much at the time. after the exaust manifold just after the collector, it went to a three inch setup. ordered a high flow cat with a single flowmaster. dumped it right before the rear end. sounded pretty damn good too. nice and loud :beer , changed the whole personality of the truck. thinking back on it now, a two inch setup would have been more practical though. like they said above, sounding fast isnt fast. just be honest to what you have and what your trying to do. it kills me to see rice out there with a fart pipe and have the nerve to call it a "custom exaust" pete
I went with dual 40 series flowmasters on my 71 electra cost me way too much. But after they bent 6 tailpipes wrong trying to clear the rear axel, and frame I figure I got my moneys worth for 550$. They are really loud considering I don't have headers. But I want it louder so i'm going to add a few electric dumps for a little highway fun.
loud exhaust you can get a great sounding exhaust without headers. i have a 3 inch h-pipe on my gsx with 3 inch mufflers. the tailpipes are 2 and a half inch welded on to the mufflers. guys think im running headers until they look under the hood. what i really like about this setup is the ground clearance. i can drive up and down steep driveways and pull my car on and off the trailer without ever scraping underneath.
Re: loud exhaust How do you have the manifolds plumbed to the 3" pipe? I have manifolds and 2-1/2" exhaust. I've got about 2' of original headpipe, then a "reducer" reversed to the 2-1/2" pipe. Just wondering if there is a better way to do it?
A loud Buick. Just seems so terribly, terribly wrong... Now that I have my opinion out of the way... :beer TAPerfromance makes up some nailhead headers, but they're meant for performance. Certainly a nice upgrade, though I have no idea what they will do for a nailhead performance wise. Your exhaust note is defined by your pipes alone. `scuse the science lesson here, but I love this physics stuff! Longer pipes mean a lower frequency and amore bassy sound. A larger diameter pipe will cause the flow to move slower, further lowering the frequency. Picking the note is easy, at 80Hz your sturnum & ribcage will find thier natural frequency and vibrate, so without a db level that deafens, your car will "feel" loud and covey a rumble. The pipe/frequency relation is f=V/2L, where V is the velocity in the pipe, which you can find for a given diameter of pipe. The Wagons 2.5" exhaust (assuming heavy air) flows at a pulsation flowrate of about 400m/s per pipe. Gives me just over 2m of pipe to play with, bends don't affect the note. As soon as that car settles to 800 RPM on idle your whole body let's you know!
Try a set of these: http://www.lemonsheaders.com/tractor.html Loud, and you'll get strange looks to boot! - Freed
If 40 series flows are not loud enough then I dont know what to tell ya. I have 50 series with headers and 2.5" pipes and I would not want to drive it everyday. I just put 40 series on my dads Vette that my brother and I put a healthy sbc into. My mom hates it and says she is going deaf. My dad loves it though so I guess we will call it even.
