Good, moderately quiet or deep exhausts for the 3800?
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RedneckGTP
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Silver2kgtp
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I've have Borla's for a long time. I liked them a lot. Then went to the Hooker Maxlfows. Love them so much better
Pokealong1227
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They are loud and I have to drive 25 miles round trip for work every day. Several miles through town, sometimes early in the morning. Gets annoying. They're nice sounding at WOT so maybe on a track car, but you're right not on a daily driver.
Pokealong1227
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Super 40s. But I haven't heard anything really good about any chambered mufflers on this engine platform.
Pokealong1227
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I'm thinking turbos or borlas are gonna be the way to go. I want something deep and quiet.
dbextreme
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I had Blowmaster 40's on my car and I hated them. Ricers looked at me funny. LOL But to each their own on sound.
Turbo's will give you a quiet sound with a minimal deep tone (I had them on a 78 Trans Am, 6.6 liter) and it was quiet to me, but my other car was my 70 Chevelle built with Flows
Borla, if set up right, will give you a nice deep mellow tone and have a good sound throughout the RPM range.
As silver said with the Maxflows, if I'm not mistaken they are In between turbos and borla's in loudness. He can comment on that.
Hell, just go get you some Purple Hornies,
The names sounds cool.. LMAO
Turbo's will give you a quiet sound with a minimal deep tone (I had them on a 78 Trans Am, 6.6 liter) and it was quiet to me, but my other car was my 70 Chevelle built with Flows
Borla, if set up right, will give you a nice deep mellow tone and have a good sound throughout the RPM range.
As silver said with the Maxflows, if I'm not mistaken they are In between turbos and borla's in loudness. He can comment on that.
Hell, just go get you some Purple Hornies,
The names sounds cool.. LMAO
Pokealong1227
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I had Blowmaster 40's on my car and I hated them. Ricers looked at me funny. LOL But to each their own on sound.
Turbo's will give you a quiet sound with a minimal deep tone (I had them on a 78 Trans Am, 6.6 liter) and it was quiet to me, but my other car was my 70 Chevelle built with Flows
Borla, if set up right, will give you a nice deep mellow tone and have a good sound throughout the RPM range.
As silver said with the Maxflows, if I'm not mistaken they are In between turbos and borla's in loudness. He can comment on that.
Hell, just go get you some Purple Hornies,
I thought they sounded good, til an eclipse that sounded like a weedeater through a megaphone moved in across the street and realized "Wow, my car sounds WAY to close to his.."
I don't want something TOO quiet so maybe turbos aren't for me. Borlas seem to be a nice step down into the deeper tone. Although I am curious, in your opinion what would be "set up right"?
Pokealong1227
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I've heard that exact same thing said about Borlas. Just those two though.
SnowFlake
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Pokealong1227
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Yes, I assumed you meant a turbo muffler. Which is what we were talking about in the messages directly before you.
Pokealong1227
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Wish they still sold the cat back. Any of those are now $1,100+ and special order. Could potentially re-create it for about $600-700 but I don't know what resonator to use.
REDCRAPGP
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Back off stock mufflers. Have Borlas welded on. Use stock resonator or go aftermarket if you choose. And yet you only spent maybe $300.
Pokealong1227
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Just annoying that you have to pay $400+ extra because Borla won't sell it directly. Not to mention the false advertising on their site leading all the way to actual check out. Still gotta think about it but whether I build a custom exhaust or order from them, Borla seems like the perfect exhaust for me. Turbos seem to be a little on the quiet side. I still want something a little louder but more toned down. There is always magnaflow, but nobody really talks about them on our cars.
Pokealong1227
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Local shop wanted to charge $300 just to add two mufflers and remove resonator. Not including parts.
REDCRAPGP
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Rip off. Try a mom and pop shop. Years ago when I did my setup I took it down to a local tire place and paid them $10 just to cut my stock mufflers off (didn't feel like getting my hands dirty or jacking the car up etc) then drove the car down to a mom and pop shop and paid them $50 to weld my Borlas on.