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Old Sep 25, 2005 | 10:42 PM
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Re: Scared of New Sound With New Muffler...

I have a 97 3.8 with a 5 speed, and i went with a cold air intake and 40 series flowmaster.. The muffler sounds great at low rpms, 3k and below but it really sounds like **** above that, now i can control the sound quite a bit with the manual trans but its definatley not what i was looking for unfortunatley
Old Sep 26, 2005 | 12:37 AM
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Re: Scared of New Sound With New Muffler...

flowmasters suck

dynomax all the way
Old Sep 27, 2005 | 02:37 PM
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Re: Scared of Not Liking Sound With New Muffler...

Originally Posted by CamaroSS30thAnn
i hear the stock z28 mufflers are really nice, u have teh 3.4tho , u really cant make them sound good lol
let me know what you think about this then. of course...im sure you'll say it sounds like *** since you own a v8 and cant ever fathom a v6 sounding as good as a v8. the funny thing about this...an SS (1998) dyno'd before me...and he sounded identical to me. wow. i sound like a SS...how bout that. but im sure you'll say bull****. cause you own a v8 and wouldnt ever admit to a v6 sounding good.

thats like GM ever letting the f-body outperform the Corvette.

oh well
for your listening enjoyment: http://camaro.adwire.com/cardyno.avi
Old Sep 27, 2005 | 02:55 PM
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Re: Scared of Not Liking Sound With New Muffler...

Originally Posted by 94Camaro
let me know what you think about this then. of course...im sure you'll say it sounds like *** since you own a v8 and cant ever fathom a v6 sounding as good as a v8. the funny thing about this...an SS (1998) dyno'd before me...and he sounded identical to me. wow. i sound like a SS...how bout that. but im sure you'll say bull****. cause you own a v8 and wouldnt ever admit to a v6 sounding good.

thats like GM ever letting the f-body outperform the Corvette.

oh well
for your listening enjoyment: http://camaro.adwire.com/cardyno.avi
WOW!! That made my day!!! That sounded great!!! If you don't mind me asking, what have you done to your car?
Old Sep 27, 2005 | 03:46 PM
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Re: Scared of New Sound With New Muffler...

Sounds good .

Mines not bad either. I'm gonna try to see if I can use my brothers computer to upload the video onto my PC, because this BS is keeping me from doing a lot of things on my computer:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v132/digi01/win32.jpg

I've tried everything...can't get rid of it. **** Bill Gates.
Old Sep 27, 2005 | 04:34 PM
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Re: Scared of New Sound With New Muffler...

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Sounds good .

Mines not bad either. I'm gonna try to see if I can use my brothers computer to upload the video onto my PC, because this BS is keeping me from doing a lot of things on my computer:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v132/digi01/win32.jpg

I've tried everything...can't get rid of it. **** Bill Gates.
http://www.experts-exchange.com/Oper..._20867724.html

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hope that helps.
Old Sep 27, 2005 | 04:49 PM
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Re: Scared of Not Liking Sound With New Muffler...

Originally Posted by firechicken1
WOW!! That made my day!!! That sounded great!!! If you don't mind me asking, what have you done to your car?
Cause I'm lazy I'll include what I posted earlier today:

Originally Posted by 94Camaro
Originally posted in "Some insight into the 3.4L OHV RWD motor"

...I proved this when I bolted the aluminum heads to the block itself. Using a stock 3.4L RWD engine block I mated the Gen III aluminum heads and 3100 intake (1996 model year) along with the fuel rails and larger injectors, the stock 3400 throttle body (50mm, just like the RWD stock tb) and adding RKSport headers (due to the fact that nothing else fit that would work in the RWD engine bay, pacesetter headers would work just as well) I realized a gain in the form of 27RWHP and 30RWTQ. (thats from 140rwhp -> 167rwhp and 183rwtq -> 203 rwtq). Once I took the cutout plate off to open the exhaust fully, it gave me another 3 horsepower and 3 torque (both rearwheel) taking me to 170RWHP and 207RWTQ. That’s a 30 RWHP gain and 24 RWTQ gain. Factor in 15% drivetrain loss and that comes to 200 horsepower at the engine. Now when I started, stock engine save for the 3” catback exhaust and K&N FIPK – I had dynoed at 140RWHP and 183RWTQ – that’s 164 HP and 215 TQ at the crank. Just updating the heads and intake from the restrictive version that GM put on there in 1993-1995 to the ones they were currently using in 1996 gave me an increase of 36 hp and 30 tq (170rw=>200c / 207rw=>245c) over what came from the factory. Then I decided to upgrade to the “3400” parts. I made sure I got a set of heads used on the 1999+ Grand Am GT, which featured bigger valves and roller rocker arms built in, as well as larger runners and ports on the plenum as well as an increased plenum size. I still haven’t dynoed the current setup that I’m running, but it’s enough that to date I have beaten a 1996 Convertible Z28 that was going all out to catch up to me and couldn’t until I decided to let off the gas a little...
Old Sep 27, 2005 | 05:33 PM
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Re: Scared of New Sound With New Muffler...

Originally Posted by 94Camaro
http://www.experts-exchange.com/Oper..._20867724.html

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hope that helps.
Thanks, I might pay for the subscription just to get rid of this thing, it sounds like my exact situation, I have no worms or viruses, just as the description says. But I'd like to know if the solution is really there, before I spend any money. Do you use this service?


By the way, how many miles are on your engine? I'd love to do all sorts of crap to mine but the thing that usually holds my future plans back are 1.) Money, and 2.) The fact that it's too late for the poor old thing.
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