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Kraw · Mar 20, 2007

I was shocked to see this when we pulled the 40 series DF's off the Stang this week.

Check out the inside

is it common for dronemasters to rot out like this? I was really disappointed when I saw them, not that it mattered since I was taking them off. They've been on the car since March of 2001. When we fired up the car with the mufflers off, all kinds of crap came out of the flow tubes.

Anyways, I have magnapacks on now and they rock

streetstang03 · Mar 20, 2007

hmmm....that makes me want to get rid of my flows

04fullitgt · Mar 20, 2007

yummy..

squares98 · Mar 20, 2007

Mine looked the same way after 7 years. High quality

SilverBullet00 · Mar 20, 2007

What kind of ramps are those? They look pretty cool..

d98gt · Mar 20, 2007

My flowmasters eventually rusted out as well. I switched to magnaflow after that.

My flows eventually rusted through the casing and I could insert my hand from the top of the muffler. The car was loud

Strype · Mar 20, 2007

I thought those were "Lifetime" mufflers

LB0193 · Mar 20, 2007

good thing i dont drive my cars in the rain/snow salt winters yikes

elite130 · Mar 20, 2007

My Flowmasters were on my car for 6 years and 80k miles before they rusted completely through. I had a quarter sized hole in the rear of both mufflers and the insides looked exactly like the pics above.

Now I have Magnaflows.

Stan Weiss · Mar 20, 2007

This will happen to any system over time. That said the factor system is stainless steel for a reason, it take much longer for this to happen. Borla has a Million Mile warranty on their stainless steel exhaust system. My neighbor has magnapacks on the LT-1 in his ex-police car, they sounds good.

Kraw · Mar 20, 2007

Strype said:
I thought those were "Lifetime" mufflers

that's exactly what I thought also

as for the ramps, I don't what brand they are, but he bought them from Sam's (I think)

LB0193 said:
good thing i dont drive my cars in the rain/snow salt winters yikes

no doubt. I guess the rain here was bad enough on them

CatmanJJ · Mar 20, 2007

Aren't they aluminized? So I thought that was more prone to rusting then say stainless steel.

04DarkShadowGT · Mar 20, 2007

They are aluminized steel, water will sit in them from the exhaust, there is no drain.

What did you expect? Over time any non stainless muffler will rust.

speedfreak98r · Mar 20, 2007

Kraw said:
as for the ramps, I don't what brand they are, but he bought them from Sam's (

So you got a twelve pack of ramps?

Gearbanger 101 · Mar 20, 2007

Well Kraw.....you know what to do now right? Put them in the local bargain hunter and sell them off as a set of "strait thru" mufflers. Some kid with a Honda will buy them.

merc123 · Mar 20, 2007

Mufflers...pfft...who needs em.

Dragstr05 · Mar 20, 2007

Kraw said:
I was shocked to see this when we pulled the 40 series DF's off the Stang this week.

is it common for dronemasters to rot out like this? I was really disappointed when I saw them, not that it mattered since I was taking them off. They've been on the car since March of 2001. When we fired up the car with the mufflers off, all kinds of crap came out of the flow tubes.

Anyways, I have magnapacks on now and they rock

I've had my flows on for almost 2 years and they seem to be holding up pretty good, but I doubt they'll last the life of the car. Been thinking about SLP's or Magnapacks for a while, but I'd rather put the money elsewhere.

Do other kits clear the axle better than the flowmaster kit? I love the sound, but the fitment SUCKS!

d98gt · Mar 21, 2007

I wish my diff. cover was shining like that even though the huge tank/tank cover wouldn't allow for it to be seen anyways

jasonh_86 · Mar 21, 2007

I wonder if that is what has happened to my flowmasters! The passenger's side muffler sounds like its got something rattling around in it at higher rpm's and its reeeaaallllyyy loud. They've been on the car since '02. Dang

Kraw · Mar 21, 2007

jasonh_86 said:
I wonder if that is what has happened to my flowmasters! The passenger's side muffler sounds like its got something rattling around in it at higher rpm's and its reeeaaallllyyy loud. They've been on the car since '02. Dang

probably so. These made a lot of rattling noise too, but it was because one of the welds was broekn

speedfreak98r said:
So you got a twelve pack of ramps?

he may

Gearbanger 101 said:
Well Kraw.....you know what to do now right? Put them in the local bargain hunter and sell them off as a set of "strait thru" mufflers. Some kid with a Honda will buy them.

good idea, but too late. The trash man was driving by and I chunked them in his truck :SNSign:

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