Just installed exaust system on my 93...

WADS56 · 07-18-2002, 07:00 AM

...and it sounds like crap! When I bought the car it had stock headers, the stock H-pipe, and some Thrush glass packs welded in place of the stock muffs. The thing was growing a huge exhaust leak where the header and H-pipe connect so I replaced it. I got a set of Hedman shorties, and a off road H-pipe. Now the thing sounds like a caprice classic from the ghetto with chrome tips. Now I need to buy a cat back because of the nasty sound this thing makes.
Wade

cyberstang5.0 · 07-18-2002, 07:31 AM

Double check where the pipe meet. You might have a small exhaust leak when you put everything back together. I let my brother install one muffler while I was doing the other (to save time) and I didn't double check his side. He didn't have the pipe on the collector all the way.

So I had to jack the car back up and redo it myself.

89 Cobra LX · 07-18-2002, 08:10 AM

A good cat-back system will have that thing sounding good. Anything's better than what you've got on there now!!!

WADS56 · 07-18-2002, 08:55 AM

It needs something. It dosn't even sound like a mustang. It's hard to explain... it makes more of a poping sound when i hit the gas, not a rumble. Kind of like a old truck with glass packs and 1 3/4" pipes.

Mustangbelle306 · 07-18-2002, 09:34 AM

ewwwwwwwwwwwwww

Time for ____! (insert brand of preference!)

Godslayer · 07-18-2002, 09:40 AM

Glasspacks suck.. they make any car sound like a hillbilly truck.

6T9PONY · 07-18-2002, 12:09 PM

Hmmmm......interesting....

I have glasspacks on my car--Thrush glasspacks. They were cheap ($15 each) from Summit. I have Hedman full-length headers and 2.5" pipe. My car sounds pretty good actually. And I'm not one of those "the louder it is, the cooler it is" kinda kid, at all.

I know what you're saying about the hillbilly pickup with glasspacks, but that's usually because they put on either too small or too big of pipe. If you get the right size on there, it can sound great. My car at idle is not very loud, but it has a fairly rough idle (thanks to my .496/.520 cam). Even when I have that thing at WOT it's not obnoxiously loud. It'd loud, but not too loud. It has a very deep, very throaty sound. It wasn't too bad driving 100 miles at 60-65. The sound didn't get annoying, it sounded pretty good, actually.

I've heard some cars with glasspacks that sound horrible. Mainly because they are not the least bit of a high performance engine and they have those mufflers.

I'll have to get some video of my car posted up on the site and let you guys hear my exhaust. I'm willing to bet just about every one of you would think it's bad ***.

07-18-2002, 07:00 AM	#1
WADS56 gear banger Join Date: Aug 2000 Location: CHICAGO Posts: 1,144	Just installed exaust system on my 93... ...and it sounds like crap! When I bought the car it had stock headers, the stock H-pipe, and some Thrush glass packs welded in place of the stock muffs. The thing was growing a huge exhaust leak where the header and H-pipe connect so I replaced it. I got a set of Hedman shorties, and a off road H-pipe. Now the thing sounds like a caprice classic from the ghetto with chrome tips. Now I need to buy a cat back because of the nasty sound this thing makes. Wade __________________ 79 Hatch: NA 347, Stage 2 Canfield Heads, Victor JR. Intake, Blueprinted Holley 750 HP, Solid Roller Cam, Shooting for 10's on motor 93 LX: Tremec, dual friction clutch, fms flywheel, Hedman shorties, O/R H-pipe Ricer hater's club member #49

07-18-2002, 08:10 AM	#3
89 Cobra LX Don Corlione Join Date: Jun 2001 Location: Omaha NE USA Posts: 491	I don't know what you expected with glass-packs. A good cat-back system will have that thing sounding good. Anything's better than what you've got on there now!!! __________________ Eric - 89 Mustang LX coupe 5 speed 302-Cobra Intake-GT40p heads-TFS stage 1 cam-FRPP 1.6 roller rockers-3:73 gears-KYB shocks and struts-Eibach Pro-kit-HPM Mega-bite upper and lower control arms-FRPP aluminum driveshaft-16x8 Chrome Cobra Rs R.H.C. #14

07-18-2002, 08:55 AM	#4
WADS56 gear banger Join Date: Aug 2000 Location: CHICAGO Posts: 1,144	It needs something. It dosn't even sound like a mustang. It's hard to explain... it makes more of a poping sound when i hit the gas, not a rumble. Kind of like a old truck with glass packs and 1 3/4" pipes. __________________ 79 Hatch: NA 347, Stage 2 Canfield Heads, Victor JR. Intake, Blueprinted Holley 750 HP, Solid Roller Cam, Shooting for 10's on motor 93 LX: Tremec, dual friction clutch, fms flywheel, Hedman shorties, O/R H-pipe Ricer hater's club member #49

07-18-2002, 09:40 AM	#6
Godslayer Registered Member Join Date: Mar 1999 Location: Largo, FL USA Posts: 274	eheh.... Glasspacks suck.. they make any car sound like a hillbilly truck. __________________ Negative Mustang @ present time.

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cyberstang5.0 347ci of HORSE POWER!!! Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Houston, TX Posts: 1,416	Double check where the pipe meet. You might have a small exhaust leak when you put everything back together. I let my brother install one muffler while I was doing the other (to save time) and I didn't double check his side. He didn't have the pipe on the collector all the way. So I had to jack the car back up and redo it myself.

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Mustangbelle306 Yay for Chickys Join Date: Feb 2001 Posts: 1,532	ewwwwwwwwwwwwww Time for ____! (insert brand of preference!)

07-18-2002, 12:09 PM	#7
6T9PONY All about the Windsor. Join Date: Feb 2000 Posts: 2,052	Hmmmm......interesting.... I have glasspacks on my car--Thrush glasspacks. They were cheap ($15 each) from Summit. I have Hedman full-length headers and 2.5" pipe. My car sounds pretty good actually. And I'm not one of those "the louder it is, the cooler it is" kinda kid, at all. I know what you're saying about the hillbilly pickup with glasspacks, but that's usually because they put on either too small or too big of pipe. If you get the right size on there, it can sound great. My car at idle is not very loud, but it has a fairly rough idle (thanks to my .496/.520 cam). Even when I have that thing at WOT it's not obnoxiously loud. It'd loud, but not too loud. It has a very deep, very throaty sound. It wasn't too bad driving 100 miles at 60-65. The sound didn't get annoying, it sounded pretty good, actually. I've heard some cars with glasspacks that sound horrible. Mainly because they are not the least bit of a high performance engine and they have those mufflers. I'll have to get some video of my car posted up on the site and let you guys hear my exhaust. I'm willing to bet just about every one of you would think it's bad ***.