today my buddy put on a gibson dual out the side exhaust on a ford f 250
v-10 and i have to tell you that it sounds awesome i know you all dont like
fords here but i figured that i just put that in.
arnold
----- Original Message -----
From: "Brett Forehand" <brett4hand@hotmail.com>
To: <dakota-truck@buffnet.net>
Sent: Friday, April 27, 2001 1:13 AM
Subject: DML: Gibson vs. Flowmaster continued... attn Bernd!
> Hey Bernd, (and DML)
>
> glad to see you put the Flowmaster back on. I was impressed with the way
> your V-6 sounded at the DML meet last year. (Yeah, the pre-supercharged
> era).
>
> Also got a chuckle out of the fact that nobody "bit" on your post about
> flowbenches. I had some guy at Midas telling me how my Flowmaster was a
> piece of crap, and I might as well have had a brick in the pipe, and he'd
> "only" charge me 300 bucks to put his better flowing, better sounding
Midas
> muffler in. (He had the chart to prove it).
>
> Obviously, there are tons of people running Flowmasters in both street and
> race form across the country. I wouldn't really expect that racer's in
> particular would be willing to run a "restrictive" muffler on their bread
> winners.
>
> You bring up very valid points, in that most of the "performance mufflers"
> on the market today truly are performance mufflers. It basically comes
down
> to personal preferences.
>
> I had the Gibson on my truck when I bought it, and liked the sound of it,
> with the exception that I thought it was a little quiet at idle. When it
> rusted out, (I suspect my Dak was a frequent "short tripper", and had
plenty
> of moisture in the pipe every day), I replaced it with a 40 Series 2
chamber
> Delta Flow. I love the sound of it. It's a 3" in, single 3" out hooked
up
> to the original mandrel bent system and Mopar headers. Since then, I added
a
> Gibson 3.5" stainless slash tip. (Keepin' up with the Pyburn's) ;) I
haven't
> noticed any change in performance, but mileage has stayed the same. (16.6
> hwy is about the best I can get).
>
> Since putting on the Flowmaster, two of my buddies that own 5.4 ltr Fords
> (one super crew, one extended cab) have put one on their trucks. Still
not
> as cool as a Dak, but they sound better than before! After my Dak was
> called the "Nascar truck" a few times, I took it as a compliment.
>
> Anyhow, that's more than my .02 worth... back into lurk mode now.
>
> Later,
> Brett Forehand
> '94 Dakota CC Sport gettin' a new water pump maņana!
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