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: Getting rid of drone!!!!!!!!!!


turbovanman
05-26-2007, 02:03 PM
I was using a Super40, after installing the Fluid damper, it was tons better, especially at the 100-120 speed range but being greedy, I had already bought a Hooker Aerochamber. I put that on last night and its friggin worse, :mad: , it also BRAPS more under wot than the Super40. So, WTF can I use, I was thinking about putting a resonator in there or a long cherry bomb to shut it down without killing flow. It has more power with the Aerochamber.

turbovanman
06-03-2007, 02:25 PM
Well I picked up a used 05 DMax system, I took the muffler and mounted it in the van. All is good, can't hear a thing, its eerily quiet. I think I losted a tad power but I don't care, the fact I can hear my radio makes it all good.

Thanks for all the input, :rolleyes: :p:

turbovanman
06-03-2007, 03:51 PM
http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a228/turbovanman/Diesel%20van%20stuff/CanonCamerapics-workcamera022.jpg

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Mattster
06-03-2007, 04:02 PM
Looks good. Yeah flowmasters have alot of drone. I had dual 40 series on a V8 S10 Blazer and that thing was loud inside and out.

turbovanman
06-03-2007, 04:11 PM
The Super40 was way quieter the Hooker Aerochamber shown above. That muffler was unbearable but on other vehicles I have put them on, you couldn't hear a thing. The brap was annoying as well. :(

Oh, that DMax muffler, must weigh 20 lbs.

High Sierra 2500
06-03-2007, 10:21 PM
That thing is CLEAN underneath!!! Don't see one that looks like that around here...

The Dmax mufflers (like all the modern GM truck mufflers) are huge for some reason. I think they are also stainless although I might be mistaken...

farmer0_1
06-03-2007, 10:28 PM
heck we are still running the factory exhaust on all of the old girls around here never changed mufflers either.for all the rain no rust.

High Sierra 2500
06-03-2007, 10:36 PM
Must be nice... Except for the stainless steel exhausts it seems like most exhaust systems don't last 10 years around here.

turbovanman
06-04-2007, 12:05 AM
That thing is CLEAN underneath!!! Don't see one that looks like that around here...

The Dmax mufflers (like all the modern GM truck mufflers) are huge for some reason. I think they are also stainless although I might be mistaken...

Yeah, we get mild winters so they don't rust as badly as back East, IE Alberta etc.

Yep, the DMax system is stainless, :D
There huge to shut up the exhaust, I would say 80% of the truckers are retired or older and don't want to hear the exhaust or have a drone on the highway, especially if they just dropped $60 grand on a new truck.