quiet mufflers for 3"system?

[blade trinity]

I really enjoy setting off car alarms wherever I go but the noise of my midas turbo mufflers is  going to make me deaf. Are flowmasters the quietest thing going and do they work with a 3" system or are there other options? Thanks, Patrick

[Mike DC]

   
"Flowmasters" and "quiet" don't really go together.

 

[471_Magnum]

3" and quiet really don't go together either.

Switching to 2.5" tails will help without hurting performance, as would adding some hemi-style resonators.

Flowmasters definitely are NOT the way to go.

[dodge freak]

If your car has a long tali pipe that is strait by the trunk you could try adding a pair of cherry bomb mufflers, one on each side. This is what I have on my car, it is cheap and flows great and not loud at least for a while. Use the cherry bombs as a secondary mufflers with the mufflers you have now. You might have to drop it down to 2 1/2 but do that after the first mufflers and axle, The mufflers come in different sizes  and are around $20.00 each. You can do it you self maybe, I would try that before you junk the whole thing. It will help and not hurt the flow to much. I had just one cherry bombs on each side and it was way to loud so I added one more on each side and it is great now. All cars do not have the room to do this but most of the old ones should.

[blade trinity]

I'd hate junk the whole system, so maybe i'll try the cherry bomb idea. Who has hemi resonators? They sound expensive. Anything that has the word Hemi sounds expensive! Thanks, Patrick

[dodge freak]

I know I would and it will make a big difference. Don't let a muffler shop talk you out of it. I had a friend who worked at one and everybody told me it won't work or would last only a few weeks. It was over 3 months with both of them on before it got any louder and 12 months of hard use and it still is not very loud. Its loud only when I step on the gas and still not as loud as some of these kids cars with their aftermarket mufflers. I think the resonators are baffle and don't flow as good. I think you be very happy with them, just make sure it exit pass the bumper, mine is straight out to get rid of the noise  when I floor it.

[is_it_EVER_done?]

If you want a quiet system, buy a pair of Chrysler Imperial mufflers from Midas or other shop. I put a pair on my 69-300 vert, and it's Pretty much dead silent. Since I have two other 69 cars that are quite loud, I wanted to go with quiet on that car without sacrificing any power on the big vert, and it worked out very well.

By the way, a 3 inch system is not necessarily louder than a smaller system, in fact 3 inch pipes tend not to resonate as much as smaller ones.

[Bandit72]

from my experiences, smaller pipes are generally louder than larger pipes....just WAY different sounds, there's acouple guys driving around here (one of them is my buddy) both have 91 GMC 1/2 tons with straight pipes and 350's...(basically the same trucks) well when my buddy heard the other guys truck and how loud it is (other guy had dual 2 3/4" straight pipes) and my friend wanted to make his truck louder (very common war of the exhaust/stereo's around here) well he was convinced that if he went and got dual 3 inch straight pipes it would be louder..well it's not and in my opinion kinda sounds like crap...but he didn't listen to me...stupid chevy owners

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