Swapped my American Thunder Flows for MACs

kooldawg6 · Apr 25, 2008

I got a great deal on a set of slightly used(15K miles-no rain or snow)MACs(#TK2546)in awesome shape(guy polished the entire muffler and pipe every so often)and decided to give them a try. I'm glad I did as they aren't quite as loud, but very close! They are much deeper sounding and the overall tone is much better than the Flows. I really like the slashcut tips as they flow with the contour of the bumper quite nicely. The only thing I dislike about them is they are all shiny That is so not my style. Since I'm going to keep them on, I will rough the muffler body up and paint them with high temp black paint so they will be hidden as the Flows were.

This is them, not MAC's pictures
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Towelly · Apr 25, 2008

Very nice.

I am planning on ordering a mid pipe soon and was wondering if the mac's were better than flows. It was between the two for me as I have heard the flows in person but not the mac's but from everything I have read, more than one person has done this swap and never looked back. "Sounds" like Mac's are the way to go.

highvolts · Apr 25, 2008

Those are purdy shiny..... lol

You will have to take some sound clips of them.

DarkFireGT · Apr 25, 2008

:waits impatiently for soundclips:

gashog · Apr 25, 2008

Yeah Kool.. what gives, no sound clips?!

You're usually on the ball with that sorta thing

DennisT · Apr 25, 2008

Why ruin such a beautiful finish I think the MAC's have one of the best tones for our cars. Now that I've been used to them for some time now I need them to get louder with some longtubes eventually!

1hOtStAnG · Apr 25, 2008

I have Magnaflow axlebacks, which are very shiny too, and I love that look.

UrbanRedneck · Apr 25, 2008

do they drone a lot?

HEAVYGT · Apr 26, 2008

I had MAC's ...came with the car when i bought it...stayed on for about month and sold them on ebay...way, way to much drone for me

kooldawg6 · Apr 26, 2008

OMG do they drone around 1500-1800 RPM in the higher gears Oh well! Otherwise they are so much better sounding than the Flows. I will get sound clips today as I will be out and about with my camera and camcorder for a Stang cruise to a car show

Towelly · Apr 26, 2008

I'm anxious to hear them with a pypes - H.

UrbanRedneck · Apr 26, 2008

there's countless clips on youtube, brenspeed, and the thread here of MACs with a Pypes H....

So they drone real bad? How much drone did the flows have?

Would you be interested in selling the flows?

mustanglouie · Apr 26, 2008

I have the same setup but with resonators. No drone and especially no trumpting! I would recomend them.

kooldawg6 · Apr 27, 2008

Here is some video I compiled yesterday. It has windows down and up footage(you will see when I put them up). I will try and get some video from outside the car today.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hC7CQO2zU8E

NotQuik · Apr 28, 2008

kooldawg6 said:
OMG do they drone around 1500-1800 RPM in the higher gears Oh well! Otherwise they are so much better sounding than the Flows. I will get sound clips today as I will be out and about with my camera and camcorder for a Stang cruise to a car show

mine gets real raspy around 2500 depending how hard I am on the throttle, quite easy to keep quiet if you'd like but that's never fun

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