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Old 05-20-2010, 08:10 PM
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how bad is the interior drone with a straight thru muffler such as slp, magnapack, or borla??? ive got welded in magnaflows with pypes long tubes and offroad h. i dont wanna go thru the interior resonance that i had with the flowmasters. but i want it louder!!!!
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Old 05-20-2010, 08:31 PM
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my stingers are loud w/ out any drone
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Old 05-20-2010, 08:34 PM
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the flowmasters had terrible drone, u could feel the vibrations thru the console. but im getting ready to do cams and i wanna be able to hear it better at idle.
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Old 05-20-2010, 09:06 PM
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Did you have the h pipe and flows? I just had my lt's put on and used a h pipe, but had a x on the stock manifolds. The x pipe my flows sound like a mac truck, very loose and raspy sounding. Now I got the h pipe it sounds way better and about half as loud, with much better tone and not drone.
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Originally Posted by 0949er
my stingers are loud w/ out any drone
Thats the same with my stingers. Super loud when you want, and quiet enough when you want, with no highway drone.
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Old 05-20-2010, 09:35 PM
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ive got the borla stingers and theres only very slight drone when youre cruising right at 2000 rpm but its not bad at all. its actually got way less drone than the stock ford exhaust while at the same time being much, much louder outside of the car. doing bbk o/r x-pipe soon
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Old 05-21-2010, 07:20 AM
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Originally Posted by K Z
Did you have the h pipe and flows? I just had my lt's put on and used a h pipe, but had a x on the stock manifolds. The x pipe my flows sound like a mac truck, very loose and raspy sounding. Now I got the h pipe it sounds way better and about half as loud, with much better tone and not drone.
i had a mac prochamber offroad h and welded in flowmasters. drone was unberible.
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Old 05-21-2010, 08:40 AM
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Well, it must be the lt's that helped out more than the h pipe on mine. The o/r x ecoed off everything and was crappy sounding. The lt's and o/r h sounds nice. My flows are welded in as well.
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I agree with everyone. Drone is mostly a problem with chambered mufflers like flowmasters. Straight thru mufflers are loud but comparatively no drone.
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No drone with my SSS Terminators.

What cams are you doing BTW?
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