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Old 03-18-2005, 05:03 PM
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I want something thats very aggressive.. almost wanna go straight pipes cause every truck ive owned has had straight pipes just about. Thus, i want something loud, but without all that rasp
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if you like flowmaster sound, they have an american thunder muscle truck system. It's side exit, dual out. they seem to have engineered a special muffler for this application, it's a 2 chamber super 40, but it's about half the size of a normal muffler. it's pretty damn loud, with my high flow cats, and it sounds god damn excellent. I reccoment to everyeone. a lot of the guy shere on this web site say flowmaster sucks up power, but i saw dyno numbers....... you may lose 2 hp, over a straight through type muffler..... in my opinion, it was well worth it.
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12in Glasspacks.....


Corsa... oh muffler, I would go with a magnaflow.
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i have the magnaflow on my TA and that sounds pretty good at WOT, but its tame at idle

keep the info coming.. im just leaning towards mufflers, then getting a friend to weld up the pipe from the muffler out the rear of the truck hisself.
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Had a Magnaflow on mine. Took it off, it was waaay to quiet for me. Switched over to a Dynomax Bullet. Sounds awesome at WOT and sitting at idle. Very loud with a deep rumble.
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has anyone tried the dynomax round muffler? Its not the bullet, but the one that looks similar
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Here's some vid clips of my Hooker muffs.

http://www.woracing.com/truck/videos/radix_revving.wmv

http://www.woracing.com/truck/videos/radix_boost.wmv

http://www.woracing.com/truck/videos/radix_revving.wmv

That's with gutted cats and true duals. I like them a lot. They are really tame at idle and low rpm, but very aggressive sounding when you really get into it.
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I'm running a 3" stainless Borla, Love the sound, tame at idle, gets loud at wot. A lot of guys are running the Borla XR1's. That's the way to go if you want loud.
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3 words...FLOWMASTER SUPER 40
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http://exhaustsoundclips.com/phpbb2/...e=newtopic&f=2

Try this
for a basic 5.3 ,magnaflow all the way


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