I have a 1966 fastback with edelbrock heads, carb , FPA headers , and just bought 2 1/4 flowmasters super 40,s, my exhaust setup i had before had no h or x-pipe and imco 2inch mufflers, it had a great muscle car sound, im not 100% sure a x-pipe will fit as i have total control subframe connector system, plus with the x-pipe i heard i will lose that muscle car sound?, what sould i expect if i install the h-pipe in teams of performance and change in exhaust sound, or should i go with neither, any info would be a great help in helping me decide
x-pipe vs h-pipe or none
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My '65 with a 2.5 inch Magnaflow kit with X-Pipe. I love it!
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I had an H pipe on my car and there was a terrible drone at highway speeds.
The exhaust shop replaced the H with an X pipe and the drone is all but gone.
Now there is a difference in the H vs X.
With the H at idle, you could feel and hear the left and right pulses.
With the X I don't. The H does sound a little better at low speed cursing but the drone was not worth it.
Gary
The exhaust shop replaced the H with an X pipe and the drone is all but gone.
Now there is a difference in the H vs X.
With the H at idle, you could feel and hear the left and right pulses.
With the X I don't. The H does sound a little better at low speed cursing but the drone was not worth it.
Gary
I noticed a BIG difference when I installed my X pipe over my old H
(but then again i also went from a stock 5.0 to a 347 with canfield head and custom cam and was fully ported and went from 2.5 to 3.0")
The H sounded like a V8 - the X sounds just mean and evil and I get lots of people telling me how nice it sounds.
(but then again i also went from a stock 5.0 to a 347 with canfield head and custom cam and was fully ported and went from 2.5 to 3.0")
The H sounded like a V8 - the X sounds just mean and evil and I get lots of people telling me how nice it sounds.
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Straight pipes will give you the "rawest" muscle car sound. It will be the loudest of the three choices. I've never ran an H-pipe so I will not comment. An X-pipe will produce more of a "tuned" sound. It will smooth out the exhaust note over straight pipes and I actually prefer this sound. Performance gains will be minimal without putting in serious time and effort to fine tune the exhaust system as a whole.
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those Magnaflows sound good.
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There's merit in this statement (I think). A lot of guys complained about the harmonics in the FOX cars when replacing the mufflers with Flowmasters (and keeping the stock H-Pipe). I have been told that the factory used slightly different length muff's to combat this. Never measured my stock ones from our '93 back that but kinda makes sence. Having said that, even back then, I really never minded the sound--a personal thing I guess.
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