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Welding In Flowmaster 40 Series

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2003Mach1

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What will i need to do this? Will the pipes just slide in, or will i need some kind of adapters?
 

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NO ONE knows?!?!?!?
 

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2003Mach1 said:
What will i need to do this? Will the pipes just slide in, or will i need some kind of adapters?
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They are best done by cutting off existing mufflers and taking the new ones and setting them into place and welding them onto the exhaust pipes. Some people will tend to use clamps but they do tend to leak and they just don't look like a good installation. Most decent muffler shops will install them for you at a reasonable cost (30-50 bucks) and do a good job. Hope this helps...
 

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If you want to weld them directly on without any adapters, make sure you get 2.25" Flowmasters and not 2.5"
 

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Get the 2.25" mufflers and have a shop weld them in for you. You shouldn't need anything else.
 
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I just wonder if you will have any popping noise kinda like backfiring, since you are going with the 2.25 in. I am thinking of doing the same thing weld ins instead of cat back to save money. A friend of mine has a 95 gt with 2.25 one chamber race flowmasters, his pops like crazy when he lets off of the gas.
 

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phord man said:
I just wonder if you will have any popping noise kinda like backfiring, since you are going with the 2.25 in. I am thinking of doing the same thing weld ins instead of cat back to save money. A friend of mine has a 95 gt with 2.25 one chamber race flowmasters, his pops like crazy when he lets off of the gas.
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Does he have an open H or X pipe or is his ride catted? Popping upon decel is usually attributed to a dramatic loss of backpressure....like a HD Fatboy rollin' down the Rockies....
 

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Good info, thanks.

i already have the mufflers in the trunk, i'll have to look and see which ones i have. i guess i wasn't aware they came in different inlet/outlet sizes.
 

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I had some flows welded onto my GT after oh maybe 200 miles. Cost me $50 to have them put on. Wont be a lot louder than stock unless you have an aftermarket mid pipe.
 
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my friend that has the single chamber flows 2.25 which pop when he lets off of the gas does not have a mid pipe all factory except the mufflers, this is the loudest stang I have ever heard, except for one running open exhaust. I guess it is because he has the single chamber race flowmasters. these things are tiny
 

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phord man said:
my friend that has the single chamber flows 2.25 which pop when he lets off of the gas does not have a mid pipe all factory except the mufflers, this is the loudest stang I have ever heard, except for one running open exhaust. I guess it is because he has the single chamber race flowmasters. these things are tiny
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I have the 2-chambered ones on mine (the Delta Flow I think) and I only get a very tiny pop upon decel, usually only on a downhill.
 
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Delta Flows are 2 chamber.... same as original 40's or super 40's
 
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Flowmaster two chamber american thunder 40 series mufflers.
 

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BLUE03GT said:
Delta Flows are 2 chamber.... same as original 40's or super 40's
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I have heard this, but do not know of its validity:

"Delta flows, like other Flowmasters, gain volume in time, as heat and patterned exhaust flow pattern make the resonance chamber have fewer baffle interruptions."

Is this total BS or do Flows get louder with age??
 
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git-it-83 said:
I have heard this, but do not know of its validity:

"Delta flows, like other Flowmasters, gain volume in time, as heat and patterned exhaust flow pattern make the resonance chamber have fewer baffle interruptions."

Is this total BS or do Flows get louder with age??
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Thats odd because my Flowmaster mufflers got less louder
with age.They still sound great though in my opnion!
 
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you know i think it's true. I have my 40 series flowmasters welded in, probably about 6 months ago, and they have seemed to get louder over time, although I want it louder than what it is. They don't seem to loud inside my stang but they do sound pretty good outside, but i still want louder, so i'm thinking about getting the whole American Thunder Cat back exhaust sytem and putting in a BBK H pipe and Full length headers, I just wonder if the Cat back by itself would make it louder like i want or if the H pipe and Headers would take care of that.

chris
 

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Okay so, to be clear, factory Mustang GT exhaust is 2.25"?
 

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2003Mach1 said:
Okay so, to be clear, factory Mustang GT exhaust is 2.25"?
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for 99-2004, yes.
 

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ccharanza87 said:
you know i think it's true. I have my 40 series flowmasters welded in, probably about 6 months ago, and they have seemed to get louder over time, although I want it louder than what it is. They don't seem to loud inside my stang but they do sound pretty good outside, but i still want louder, so i'm thinking about getting the whole American Thunder Cat back exhaust sytem and putting in a BBK H pipe and Full length headers, I just wonder if the Cat back by itself would make it louder like i want or if the H pipe and Headers would take care of that.

chris
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Me too, but any aftermarket off road h pipe I find is for 2.5". Does anyone know if there are 2.25" that are budget-conscious?
 

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Me too, but any aftermarket off road h pipe I find is for 2.5". Does anyone know if there are 2.25" that are budget-conscious?
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I don't know of any off-road H pipes that are 2.25". The 2.5" H pipes will bolt right up to your stock cat-back and stock headers though.
 
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