So.. looksies wut I got

[lowc]

no I convinced him to buy it lmao

was talkin bout ryan

 

[DaSho97]

was talkin bout ryan

Idk his cousin was there when we showed up.

 

[jonheese]

FYI, fix the inner door panel by buying the little black "christmas trees" at the parts store. Take out the screws and the panels pops off. You'll see what I mean; most of yours are probably missing/boogered/broken.

 

[Phokus]

I'll look at it tomorrow

Where do I get glasspacks? What do I do? Just get one and take it to a muffler shop and tell them to put it in?

Glasspacks are an old, simple, and relatively inexpensive design. They are very effective at reducing back pressure, but not very effective at muffling noise. Thus, they preserve more of the engine's power while sounding louder than conventional mufflers. < wikipedia; sounding louder than conventional muffler? how does that help me.. I need to cut some noise

 

[RonPorter]

I'll look at it tomorrow

Where do I get glasspacks? What do I do? Just get one and take it to a muffler shop and tell them to put it in?

Glasspacks are an old, simple, and relatively inexpensive design. They are very effective at reducing back pressure, but not very effective at muffling noise. Thus, they preserve more of the engine's power while sounding louder than conventional mufflers. < wikipedia; sounding louder than conventional muffler? how does that help me.. I need to cut some noise

Every muffler shop has glasspacks. resonators are basically glasspacks, if you ever looked at one.

The difference is, if you specify a glasspack, it's $10-25. If you ask for a resontor, they sell you the SAME part for $45-50.

Hey, we've been doing this on V6 SHOs for 20 years now!! Either get one, big, fat-ass glasspack, or have them weld in two smaller ones.

They cut the rasp in conjunction with the mufflers.

FWIW, on the '95 SHO I had years ago, it had $10 glasspacks for mufflers. But it had a big, fat glasspack as a resonator. it, IMO, was the best sounding V6 SHO I've ever heard. I never could find out the brand of that glasspack resonator.

 

[Phokus]

Any suggestion of a muffler shop? Like should I choose the umm chain shops like Midas or find a local shop?

Which would you suggest? a really big one or two little ones

 

[RonPorter]

Any suggestion of a muffler shop? Like should I choose the umm chain shops like Midas or find a local shop?

Which would you suggest? a really big one or two little ones

Midas, Muffler Man, Meinke, whatever is closest to where you live. It doesn't matter.

They are all the same, quality depends on who works there.

If you can find a big fat one that fits, fine. Otherwise get in two, or whatever you can to fit between the y-pipe and the split over the axle.

 

[jonheese]

If you can find a big fat one that fits, fine. Otherwise get in two, or whatever you can to fit between the y-pipe and the split over the rear control arms.

Small (but important) correction.

 

[RonPorter]

Small (but important) correction.

Well, it should be obvious....

But then, these are guys who work at muffler shops!!

 

[Phokus]

Actually now.. I searched some of the exhaust threads on here. I found some posts about glasspacks sounding bad.

Now I don't want to spend money on making it into something I like even less

Anyone got a vid/sound clip of what stock pipe sounds like? :shakehead

Basically looking for something fairly subtle especially when just driving around my neighborhood. Don't want to be waking neighbors or annoying people at home. Right now I've been told it sounds like a helicopter floating around overhead a few hundred feet away


And the axle correction.. I suppose they would know what you mean right? lol

 

[Irish Pride]

If you add the glasspacks to your exhaust before the mufflers AND keep the mufflers that are on the car now. It will lower the loudness of your exhaust while giving it a better more desirable tone.

A lot of the people on this forum have been dealing with these cars for years and years. The advise you get here on the forum will trump anything you can Wiki.

 

[jonheese]

I was correcting Ron mostly for your clarification, Phokus. So you could understand what he meant clearly.

Also, keep in mind that Ron is suggesting glasspacks as resonators, in addition to mufflers (eg. your Magnaflows). Most people who say that glasspacks sound bad are probably talking about glasspacks as mufflers, i.e. nothing but a pair of glasspacks.

I trust Ron when he says that the setup he described sounds good; he's been around SHOs a lot longer than 99% of people here, and he's been rattling on about how good that setup sounded for almost that long.

 

[RonPorter]

If you look under the car, you will most likely see the stock resonator in the exhaust where it bends around the shifter. Pretty wimpy, but it works with the stock (quiet) mufflers. Any time you go to louder mufflers on a V6 SHO, you have to get a bigger resonator (or a couple of resonators) in there to **** the rasp.

 

[lowc]

Any suggestion of a muffler shop? Like should I choose the umm chain shops like Midas or find a local shop?

Which would you suggest? a really big one or two little ones

you could try eco on quincy ave they are pretty good or if you could wait till saturday and pick up the parts i could do it for you my shop is right over the neponset bridge

 

[Phokus]

:O You have a shop?
What kind of work do you do? Everything?

I hate the Neponset bridge now.. its a clusterf****

I'm gonna check with the guy I normally go to and see if he does any exhaust stuff first. I remember seeing a magnaflow performance exhaust sticker on the window so maybe he does exhaust.

 

[lowc]

Yea I work on ambulances during the week and they let me use the shop on the weekends. We pretty much do everything but internal trany crap and yea the bridge sucks it's supose to be like that for another two an a half years. Just let me know what your guy says. There is not alot of guys around that want to touch our cars I'm sure he won't have an issue with the exhaust but If you need engine work might be different story

 

[Phokus]

I don't have the car with me in RI right now but I spoke with him about it. He said bring it by and he can look at it to see. He doesn't do custom exhaust but does regular stock exhaust and a bit of welding.
I'll show him the car on Friday and if not I'll see what to do after..

Gonna go autox my Vic on Sunday so this is another weekend where nothing gets done lol

 

[Bob Gervais]

FYI, if this car still has the exhaust I'm thinking it has, it's not two regular Magnaflow mufflers, like the turbo style. It's two Magnaflow glasspacks in place of the stock mufflers. If the sound is too loud, IMO, adding in resonators isn't going to do much. You'll need to change the glasspack mufflers back to something more stockish.

 

[Phokus]

how can I tell what kind it has?

Also I dunno what it is.. but maybe they've settled in from when I picked it up.
Its like a bunch of things have settled in.

The drivers side window wasn't auto 1 touch opening but now it does
The exhaust sound seems a bit more tolerable though I would like it deeper some..
Seats feel a tad more comfortable

Maybe I'm just getting used to it some of the things

 

[Bob Gervais]

Sounds like you're just acclamating yourself to the car.

Look at the spot where the stock mufflers were, glasspacks will be round. If, like I said, it's the exhaust I think this car has/had.