I've got Long Tube Hooker Headers with the 3" off road y-pipe and a hooker cat-back right now. I'm not really liking the exhaust note the hooker cat-back makes and I want something deeper. What would be a good muffler for my set-up? I don't really want to spend 650 bucks on it either.

 

Sounds like you want a dynomouth. If your not familiar with it what you do is buy a 12" or 18" dynomax bullet race muffler for $36.00 plus shipping. Bring it to an exhaust shop and have them remove the Hooker aerochamber muffler and fab a pipe in it's place just to keep the dual out exhaust continuity.

Now have them install the bullet muffler in the I-pipe right behind the rear axel. It'll look like you have the loudmouth setup but it'll be a bullet muffler instead of the slp resinator. Much louder and deeper then hooker but not all the drone of the loudmouth itself.

I assume you have no cats. I am running the 12" bullet in mine but I still have cats which kills a lot of rasp and quiets the car some. W/O cats I might go with a 18" bullet muffler but then again you want loud so 12" certainly does not disappoint.

Anyway the exhaust shop should only charge about $100. So your total cost is $150 and it'll be a whole new beast when it's done. BTW the dynomax bullet mufflers flow better then hooker too so you may see a few horses as well with the swap (maybe as much as 5).

Other then that maybe magnaflow might sound good with your setup if you really want another catback. Flows better then hooker and is a bit louder from what I understand.

Good Luck

 

Here is my setup....pacesetter LT's to x-pipe to dual 18" sweet thunder chambered muffs to dumps. video clip
http://www.neufamily.org/hosted%20st...ualexhaust.wmv

 

Wow, that sounds really, really tough(and actually good) for an LS1. I don't like the way Dynomax Bullets sound on true dual set-ups for LS1's, but those chambered mufflers have a nice deep tone.

I do like the way my GMMG sounds right now, but if I decide to run off-road pipes when I get some headers, it's gonna be an X with those Sweet Thunders all the way unless I go with highflow cats instead(in which case, I'll keep my Y/cat-back set-up).

Cool vid man and nice white SS,

Mike