It's obviously very personal, but I think the flowmaster 42 series on my
tiger are the single best feature of the car. or at least they are a big
component of the single best feature - the sound (the engine helps somewhat
too)!
maybe that says something about the rest of my tiger :) hmm....
On Sun, Apr 7, 2013 at 4:28 PM, <MWood24020@aol.com> wrote:
> Of course, we also need to differentiate "good noise" from "bad noise"...
> ;-)
>
>
> In a message dated 4/7/2013 1:25:14 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time,
> tsmit@shaw.ca writes:
>
> True enough, but the LAT73/LAT74 headers and exhaust, that these mufflers
> were part of, were not really intended for stock engines.
>
> My Tiger came to me with a five-bolt 289 with ported and polished heads, a
> Holley 600 and F4B manifold, and a pretty lopey cam. 'Quiet' was not
> really in its repertoire, although sticking with a 2 inch exhaust system
> does
> help keep the overall noise level down compared with 2 1/4 or 2 1/2 inch
> pipe, at the expense of some performance at the high end.
>
> Theo
>
> On 4/7/2013 1:58 PM, _CoolVT@aol.com_ (mailto:CoolVT@aol.com) wrote:
>
>
> I can tell you that in using cheap old glass paks with a stock engine and
> the same mufflers with a hopped up 302....they are much, much louder with
> the 302. I shouldn't think a stock engine would be that difficult to
> muffle.
> Mark L
>
>
> In a message dated 4/7/2013 3:37:15 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
> _tsmit@shaw.ca_ (mailto:tsmit@shaw.ca) writes:
>
> Mike,
> Here's a picture of what I think are the Mitchell mufflers - these are
> what was on my Tiger when I got it.
>
> For the rest of you that won't get the picture:
>
> The body is 24" long, 3x5" oval, 2" in and out. Contrary to what I
> remembered, the hangers attach 5" rearward from the front of the muffler
> body - there is only about 20 inches between where the hangers attach on
> the chassis and the rear axle tube.
>
> I do recall the front of these mufflers pretty much touching the
> rearward part of the underbody X frame, just behind the little exhaust
> pipe notch in the X. The sound of these mufflers was pretty aggressive,
> but it went well with the rest of the system and engine.
>
> I would also be concerned with the amount of sound suppression that's
> possible in a small diameter muffler such as the chambered ones in the
> link below. It may be that with proper choice of all the internal
> volumes, they get noise cancellation at most of the frequencies of
> interest, but it seems to me that the overall result would still be
> pretty dependent on the rest of the package, i.e. engine displacement,
> cam, and the diameter of the rest of the exhaust.
>
> Theo
>
>
> On 4/7/2013 10:28 AM, _MWood24020@aol.com_ (mailto:MWood24020@aol.com)
> wrote:
> > Thanks, Theo. I was looking around the 'net yesterday and saw this:
> > http://www.classicchambered.com/
> > Concern is that there would really be minimal muffling. Upside would be
> > installation, particularly in terms of avoiding the "mufflers hanging
> low"
> > issue/look we have with our cars.
> >
> > I also had another friend tell me he installed the new tech, small
> diameter
> > glasspacks on his Tiger with very good results.
> >
> > I'm not a big fan of Flowmaster mufflers. I've yet to have an install
> where
> > there wasn't some droning, regardless as to whether running an H or X
> > pipe. They do sound good under throttle and are made very well,
> though!
>
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