Installed 3'' Forza Flow mufflers, vid inside

I got these for free and they were new in the box so i figured i couldn't lose. I paid a few bucks to have some flow tubes made up that slip-fit into the 3'' inlet but are 2.5 at the mid-pipe end and are flaired to work with the ball and flange setup and i threw them on. I still need to weld up some hangers, you can kinda see them hanging in the video (i've got them ghetto wired up right now )


Anyways i'm not sure if i like them or not. They certainly don't sound bad per say, but they're not exactly what i want. I'm definitely buying some Spintech Pro Streets but it's not very high on the priority list right now so i'll run these for a while. They're LOUD....louder even than the 1 chamber Flowmasters i've been running. They also drone like there's no tomorrow which really sucks, but they certainly have that authority sound to them when you crack into the throttle.

Right now i'm running them without dumps....i might throw some on and see how that changes the sound. Oddly enough they don't sound that much different than the 1 chambers i had on them...my engine really seems to have a sound that's sort of unique to it...i've ran the same exhaust setup as other people and it still has this certain pitch to it...i dunno. Here's vid:

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88blacklx said:

taking sound clips in a car wash to make your car sound louder FTL.

just kidding man, sounds okay to me, but i know what you mean with that sounds the same pitch idea. i dunno

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Not to sound louder....it's about acoustics. I've done seriously 100s of sound clips in tons of different places and i've watched so many that other people make....and i got really tired of how you can hear 2 clips of the same exhaust setup and because they're in different places they sound totally different, and that's not even mentioning how different microphones pic up the sounds at different levels...one setup can sound deeper or higher pitched than it truely is in real life. So after a lot of experimenting i've found that a car wash booth works a lot like an opera house does and bounces the sound back towards the camera better than letting it scatter out from under the car...or in other words it just feeds the camera better sound quality. It's the same principle behind seeing a live band inside vs. seeing a band outside, or how a car isn't going to sound the same to you while you're inside driving it as it will driving past you while you're standing next to it. It's going to sound louder in my video than it would have if i recorded it out in the open, but it's actually a better representation of how it really sounds in person.

25thmustang said:

Sounds much different under a load though, and most cars are heard under loads. Nice to see clips coming out, and you seem to be the only one doing them, but if you could grab some with the car actually moving down the street, maybe at different RPM (have a quiet chase car maybe?) we could get the full effect of the sound.

I run Pro Streets and they have grown on me a ton. O/R X and LTs here and at 2400-3000 or so under a good load the car absolutely screams to the point it scares most people around it.

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That's something i've really been wanting to do but it's hard to get done since i'm usually by myself doing this stuff. I could get my gf to drive my Merkur but then i'd still need someone on the camera so she's not trying to drive and video at the same time. Most of the time it's really a spur of the moment recording...the car wash is just up the street from me and i just swing up there, sit the camcorder on the ground and crack into it a couple times and go. I've tried to take video holding the camera myself while in the car, but that sucks to try and shift at the same time, and you still get a muted version of how it sounds from inside rather than outside.

I even tinkered around with taking a small belt and strapping the camera to the top/outside of my door frame, which was awesome until you get going and the wind pretty much takes over the sound. I havent figured out a good way to block the wind while still allowing engine noise to get in.

Another thing i really want to do is get a really nice tail pipe setup so i can make clips with full tail pipes. I think a lot of the videos just sound the same because dumps are more loud than anything else, you lose a lot of tone with dumps.