I am tired of my Flowmasters. Help!

[swingline]

I am tired of my Flowmasters. Suggestions?

I have 40's with BBK L/T and O/R H-pipe. I am torn between the Spintech, Borla, and Bassani. I am leaning towards the Spintech's since they make the most HP but I don't want something quiet at idle either. Anyone with experience with any of these mufflers please share some info. Thanks.

 

[tistan2]

If you want a cat back that has a good tone and makes a noise at idle I would go with a mac cat back. Either 5.0 mustang or muscle mustang did a test on all the mufflers. The macs were in the top 3 as far as making power and they have the most affordable catback. The only thing that would keep me from going mac is if you are running a h pipe. They sound crappy with a h pipe, but if you have x pipe they sound real good.

 

[swingline]

I have a H-pipe so I see no need in getting a cat-back since I don't have emissions here.

 

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[95STANG-GTSC]

I too got tired of the Flowmaster "drone", i went with the borlas, they are quieter at idle, and cruising, but sound great at full throttle!!!

Mike

 

[dTas95GT]

i have spintech sportsmans. they have a nice sound at idle and at WOT. i'm torn between driving my car and following it just to hear the exhaust note.

 

[slytherin]

I have bassani headers/ with O/R xpipe and mac 2 chambers really nice idle sound a little strange 2500-3500rpm and at wot sounds like open headers almost.

 

[swingline]

Mike, are the Borlas louder than your old Flowmasters at WOT? Are the Sportsmans the loudeset muffler offered by Spintech?

 

[dTas95GT]

swingline: check out www.spintechmufflers.com. pro-streets are the loudest "street legal" muffler they offer. but they also have a complete line of competition racing mufflers if you're looking to go EXTREME!

 

[swingline]

It seems their Sportsman muffler would be louder since it was designed a a race muffler and is their "premiere street muffler".

 

[dTas95GT]

trust me... the Pro-streets are louder. they're half the size of the Sportsman Street mufflers and have half the "spin-traps".

take a look at the pro-shoot-out mufflers and you can see that they only have 3 traps where the Sportsmans have 6 or 7 (maybe even 8) traps.

 

[swingline]

Cool. Looks like I will be getting some Pro-Streets. Any idea how these will sound compared to my Flowmasters?

 

[dTas95GT]

what kind of mods are you running?

spintechs sound less "muffled" than flowmasters. you'd get more of an "open header" type sound, crisper.

 

[swingline]

Only things that would affect the sound are Cobra upper/lower, E-Bay CAI, FRPP 65mm TB, BBK LT's and O/R H-pipe. I can't think of what else. I first had my Flowmasters open but just recently welded dumps on them. I don't really like the dumps but they still sound fine at WOT. Since I don't have a cam yet I want something that sounds the best I get at idle though.

 

[dTas95GT]

there's a video floating around somewhere of a guy with Pro-streets running dumps. very loud and very mean!

with LT's and O/R H you should get a very distinctive idle.