Straight dual pipes

[Bill in Al]

To all who suggested that dual straights wouldn't be too loud--Thanks! They're on and sound great! There's nothing that sounds quiet like it does. I was a little skeptical about installing them but after driving along a farm fence of boards and listening to the reflected noise, I couldn't believe how good that flathead sound was! Thanks again!!(it doesn't hurt that I'm old and can't hear well that makes it sound so good!)

[Lawson Cox]

Yeah, but think of all of the folks who's eardrums you are busting. lol

[ken ct]

There not that loud LAWSON,get with the program. Been running like that for 4 yrs now.Dont knock it if you havn't tried it. ken ct.

[Straightpipes]

My pickup has headers with two straight pieces of conduit. Has a sound like nothing else (cept maybe another flathead). You need to stand along side the road and have somebody drive it past.
Not load at all. Cops don't ever bother me.

[ken ct]

Thats the only way to go SP's. Lawson is stuck back in the 40's with his gutted muffler. He dont know what he's missing. LOL ken ct.

[gerrald meacham]

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sure would like to have lawsons cox truck . i would put streight pipes on it

[gerrald meacham]

Sorry lawson cox

[Brendan]

i have a Friend that had fenton headers and glass packs on his truck it is two quite.
on my 36 i run reads headers and straight pipes i love the sound, i cant get enough of it. their is a section of road that you go under a shopping mall i have fun driving through it , also the sound when i am pulling a grade , i love it!!

[Brendan]

AVAPaul used to say in his quote " if it's two loud your to old"

[OLD...BILL]

[QUOTE=Brendan;214401]AVAPaul used to say in his quote " if it's two loud your to old"[/QU

QUESTION : If you will, please, for all of you "" WHAT SIZE PIPE, ID ""?? and is it all the way ?? ,, with or without headers ??AND The tips, maybe 1/4" or 1/2" smaller ?? could make a difference ?? ..OLD....BILL

[rickb9ol]

i run fenton headers on my 35 pickup with dual 2" pipes straight back. i do have short glasspacks called bullets that are 3" through. the larger glasspack gave it a real deep tone.definetly sounds like a flatty!

[Marv]

If i remember right from my younger days, the 2" strait pipes are actualy quieter than the glass packs . The straight has a snap when you let off the accelerater and the glass packs rumbles. Marv

[Bill in Al]

I've got stock headers and 2" pipe all the way back.No tips. I can hardly hear them in the car untill I drive by something that bounces the sound back at me. Cops don't seem bothered either.No CSB has a sound that compares!!

[ken ct]

Stock small tailpipes quiet it down more that larger pipes.ken ct.

[felix37]

I have been running 2'' pipe with Smitty's I guess I have been missing out!

[Ken Crans]

Hey Bill, That is a sweet sound, Reds Headers,Cherry Bombs, and straight pipes all the way back... Sounds better than a small block Ford. Ken

[Frank Miller]

I would love to see the hp and trque curves with these different combinations. Straight pipes on a harley run like shit. Leans it out too much in the mid range and a cam makes it worse. Dyno tuned with baffles and added back pressure until the torque line was straight. The quieter exhausts actualy give the best dyno numbers. Straights are good at full rpm.

[Joe/Ct]

I have dumps that I remove the caps off once in awhile, and an old timer told me that I didn't want to do that for very long. It had something to do with the back pressure (or lack of) effecting the valves or something like that. Is that true, and if so, wouldn't the same effect happen with straight pipes?

[ken ct]

Originally Posted by Ken Crans

Hey Bill, That is a sweet sound, Reds Headers,Cherry Bombs, and straight pipes all the way back... Sounds better than a small block Ford. Ken

Please explain how you run straight pipes using Cherry Bombs [mufflers] ?????????? ken ct.lol

[ken ct]

Thats why the long skinny small diam. pipes are best. ken ct.

[Ken Crans]

Ken,you mean straight pipes from the header? well... Won't that make these Flatty's run real hot? Ken

[Shadetree]

To each his own. I prefer the mellow rumble of Smitty's. Going through town today with the top down hearing the echo bounce off of the building walls from my flathead V-8 brings back fond memories of the days of my youth.

Don’t forget the pennies in the heat risers. My two cents worth!

Shadetree

[Henry/Kokomo]

Shadetree - $.02 is right. One for each side! Be sure to install with heads up (for luck).

[Shadetree]

Right on Henry!

Shadetree

[Ken Bull]

I have a cast iron Y cutout, I bought from JC Whitney Yrs? ago. Just pull on the cable (not included) & !! U can get it for 1/2 the current catolog price I just love dauls with glasspacks on my flathead V8

[OLD...BILL]

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Hay Ken CT " size matters " the tail pipe on youi 36 is ? 1-3/4 or all stock 1-1/2, and is the engine all stock original ?? here again size matters. if we add a built engine, with hi comp heads, the sound changes, and now lets add a super HOT CAM , the timing of the exhast valve, closing will make difference, tone/or noise... are we going to push all that out ...what size pipe ?? If we go a 2" pipe, will we get some or none at all back-pressure, some is needed, or is it just an ECOE-CHAMBER ?? As for the open dump tubes at the headers, what the old timer was telling you, a cold draft of air,when you shut it down, up that open port can or will warp the open valve, standing wide open, and being super hot, ...If we keep talking we can find another can of worms to open, and where is; JM ..35 .. SEDAN ??? .. he's all about open tubes... OLD...BILL

[Bill in Al]

I ran straight shorties on a shovel-head 1340 for 18 years with no valve damage. Sold it 6 years ago and they're still on it. (can't hear so good anymore tho!)

[ken ct]

Originally Posted by OLD...BILL

Hay Ken CT " size matters " the tail pipe on youi 36 is ? 1-3/4 or all stock 1-1/2, and is the engine all stock original ?? here again size matters. if we add a built engine, with hi comp heads, the sound changes, and now lets add a super HOT CAM , the timing of the exhast valve, closing will make difference, tone/or noise... are we going to push all that out ...what size pipe ?? If we go a 2" pipe, will we get some or none at all back-pressure, some is needed, or is it just an ECOE-CHAMBER ?? As for the open dump tubes at the headers, what the old timer was telling you, a cold draft of air,when you shut it down, up that open port can or will warp the open valve, standing wide open, and being super hot, ...If we keep talking we can find another can of worms to open, and where is; JM ..35 .. SEDAN ??? .. he's all about open tubes... OLD...BILL

Its stock 36 LB engine running a #48 with stock exhaust manifolds,stock head pips and stock size tailpipes. Have short 2 stroke motor-cycle baffels inserted in the end of ea TP. there cut down to about 6" long.Work great to cut the sharpness out of the rumble. ken ct.

[oldford2]

Ken,
Do you have your 36 on the road? Great
John

[ken ct]

Not yet ,too busy with other things,i'll get around to finishing it up one of these days??? ken ct lol