Originally posted by giddyup306:
When I bought my '00 SVT it had magnaflow mufflers on them. I don't like them. Sounds too ricey. Plus the 4" tips just look dead grotty on them. For christs sake I have 3.5" exhaust on my nitrous 347. That is an engine that turns 7500 RPM and I spray 300. Even for that much exhaust volume, I still lost a little bit of torque down low. Ford had something to do with this by making the rear valance big. SO I guess it could look worse. I have a built-to-the-hilt 3L hybrid and so I guess what kind of mufflers can I put on that appear to be stock like and are quiet without impeding exhaust flow (significantly).

I tried a few searches but could only find posts that were concerned about making the exhaust sounding "better"

I guess this is the best place to put this post but if it fits better in another forum I appologize.

Thanks,

Mike

PS if anyone is interested in the Magnaflow mufflers let me know. I will probably swap them out the middle of next month. If you PM me your email addy I can send you some pics. I have the original recipt and with install these mufflers cost $525.



Hey, I don't know what the full exhaust is but magnaflows sound really good on the contours normally. I had the straight through design but you will get that ricey raspy sound and drone if you don't have a catalytic converter and a resonator.
I ran a main cat and then to reduce any drone I used a dynomax thrush bullet muffler/resonator in place of where the stock resonator goes, right before the 3" split. The mufflers and the resonator are all straight through design and they made it sound very smooth and rumbly, not too loud. Without a catalyst you will be louder and you may get some rasp on startup. The only thing you can do then is get the highest flow, offset or baffled muffler and use that in place of a resonator. Then you will solve the ricey sound.

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