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Inline Six

Old Dec 6, 2006 | 06:24 PM
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Can you make a inline six sound beasty? Im curious ive never really heard one.
Old Dec 6, 2006 | 06:29 PM
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ya you get a cam and the headers that give dual exhaust with some purple hornies or some sweet thunder chambered mufflers

clip one

clip two

i know its a chevy but they would sound nice on a mustang
Old Dec 6, 2006 | 09:07 PM
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that would be like trying to make your girlfriend a model...j/k
Old Dec 7, 2006 | 01:53 AM
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check out the links above
Old Dec 7, 2006 | 02:46 AM
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Just my opinion, but those two clips sound awful. At idle it sounds like a popcorn machine, and under acceleration it sounds like a truck running on 7 cylinders with a clapped out muffler. Like he didn't bother to put in any kind of balance tube. I've got to think he's lost some bottom grunt, by the way the car can't pull itself out of the hole.

An I-6 can be made to sound good at idle, but as soon as you bring up the revs, well... it still sounds like a six cylinder. You also have to be careful about keeping some back pressure, otherwise you get no scavenging, and it won't get out of it's own way. 1.75" is about as big as you can go on a stock engine, without losing torque.
I kept the stock size, and installed a small turbo muffler, ran the tail pipe over the rear end, and cut at a downward angle near the front of the gas tank. Nice idle, and quiet in the car running down the road. Picked up a tiny bit more "omph" out of the hole, and *maybe* a touch of fuel mileage.
Old Dec 7, 2006 | 03:22 AM
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i thought that it sounded mean and better than the uber common tone of flowmasters
Old Dec 7, 2006 | 04:26 AM
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SOUNDS HORRIBLE
Old Dec 7, 2006 | 04:34 AM
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eh to each his own but chambered exhaust used to be factory on camaros and gm cars but believe it or not some people would put them on their ford its just a diff sound and i cannot stand the sound of flowmaster its everywhere and i like things that are different i just cannot stand the sound of them i put them on my f250 with a 460 and 3 inth pipe and it sounds like everyone elses eh i like spintechs but they are spendy and spiraflows are nice too but these just give a diff sound all together and my car only runs on 7 maybe 6 cylinders and it sounds way diff than that cause i hear it every day
Old Dec 7, 2006 | 03:26 PM
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Are you sure that there is even a muffler under there? Sound like one of those old Thrushes!
Old Dec 7, 2006 | 03:32 PM
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well i like them great post.... i hate folws to[:'(]

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