which ones do you think give the best balance of growl/flow for the buck? Cherry Bomb turboII, normal cherry bomb turbo, Thrush, or the summit one?
forgot 1...raptor turbo by flowtech
http://www.dynomax.com/superturbo.stm
This is the ler that I ran on my 88 3.8.
Had a small rumble at idle but made some serios noise when opened up, as opened as a 3.8 gets.
http://www.flowmasterlers.com/40_orig.html
This is the lers that were on my 91 lincoln Mark. Deep rumble at idle and just got louder from there.
http://www.holley.com/products.asp?product=50552FLT
These are what I currently have on my 88 XR7. Very little noise at idle but makes alot when you step on it. This one is my recomended ler.
i like the raptor lers i have had them on several cars and have a deep quite tone .
plus they dibnt neck down inside like the other you mentioned the neck down to 2" pipe inside
Im going with flowmasters. Would it hurt to run Super 40s on a stock 302? They say they are for high horsepower, but all it would do is have less of a flow restriction.
I'd like to go with Dynomax Ultra flow...but it's not in the budget...thinking of going with a set of FORCE fully welded lers from summit racing
i have the turbo II's they sound okay but not the best and they will keep your car quiet and for the price they are kick ass man im soon changing to flows......
What about some Hooker Maximum Flows? They're straight through, I have a set on my turbo coupe and I really like them. They're $60 each but they're supposed to be all stainless on the inside, I think. I know the Aerochambers are, they're a chambered design vs. the straight through.
I like Mac and FlowMaster.
U could be a bit different and go with Skunk2 Racing ler and sound like half imports out there.
sweet. i want to sound like the imports...
Got a 3.8 use the dyno max lers. Made mine sound like it ate a set of imports. You know one for each side. :D
But that is only when you ran the thing out to red line. And it wasn't quite about it either.
I want lers that will be loud enough when I rev the engine to drown out any nearby fart cans or thumping stereos. I have been thinking about putting in basically stock type lers and putting in the bypass valves so I can just open it up totally when I want but have a quite ride the rest of the time.
Electric cutouts can get pricey quick. And are a little more complicated than just putting in a new ler. What about Magnaflow? I just picked up a ler for $60 dollars, but decided to wait to put it on till after I swap in a new 5.0. They are all stainless steel, all the welds are garunteed for life, and they are wide open pass-through up to 3 inches. I got a 2.5 inch.
Paul
Warlock (http://"http://www.holley.com/products.asp?product=50552FLT")+ Electric cutous (http://"http://www.dmhperformance.com/")= Open exhaust
The flowtech warlock ler showed in the previous post will make more power and torque than any other ler hands down(when opened, when closed it sucks). Or you could be a cheap like me and buy a pair of 2.5" dynomax super turbo lers with the offset/offset configuration and turn it into an ultra flow with the quick use of a 2.5" hole saw. :hick:
well im running a 40 series flowmaster on my cougar 5.0 and its got a rumble at itle and when you get on it it opens up nicely.
Just wondering why you say they suck when closed. Have you used them before? And they have the same internal design ast the dyno max lers.
Personaly I don't like the flow masters I took off my car they sounded like to me.
Hooker AeroChamber
Make sure you have you exhaust set up properly or you won't have a good sound no mater what lers you go with. You need real dual exhaust to get that "muscle car sound". If you just put lers on your stock exhaust then you won't get a much different sound out of the car. For example on my 88 5.0 Bird I have Stang shorty headers, full custom bent 2.25 duals with no crossover ("H") pipe, 2 cats (one on each side) and Flowtech Afterburner lers. They seem to be good lers. They have one big chamber in them to deaden the sound but they have internal pipes the same size as the external pipes. They have a nice rump rump rump at idol that isn't very loud but you can still hear it. When you step on the gas they open up and the car has a nice rumble to it on acceleration and crusing.
I'm going by a 15 ler dyno shoot-out by MM&FF. They made more power than any other ler when opened, when closed, they were the worst. The dynomax super turbo lers are almost identical in design, don't go out and buy a set to hack them up just yet...wait until I do mine and I'll let you know how it sounds.
I've have the warlocks on there now and have had the dyno max in the past. My :2c: I would rather have the warlocks than anything else I have had. I like to have a little rumble on the street but not enought to get the cops attention like the guys running single chamber lers.