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Old Sep 30, 2004 | 11:41 PM
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Well I think the Gibson is finally taking a crap on me. I keep hearing this rattling sound coming from the muffler when I'm accelerating at certain RPM's. So I think it's time to replace it after about 4-5 years of hard life. What do yall think??? Give me some good feedback on some mufflers or cat-backs that sound good but not too harsh and don't have that drone at 60-70 mph. That was one thing about the Gibson it was pretty quiet down the hi-way and not too harsh at idle or slight accel. Hell' now that I think about it I couldn't even hear it at the track when watching the video playback!!! Flowmaster is defenetly (sp.) out of the question. I was thinking about magnaflow or dynomax but wanted some opinions on these or any other I should consider...Zed
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Old Sep 30, 2004 | 11:46 PM
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Corsa is awesome. I think the sport edition would work great for what you want.
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Old Oct 1, 2004 | 01:02 AM
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Corsa is awesome. I think the sport edition would work great for what you want.
yea if you're ok with spending over $600 on a friggin exhaust!
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Old Oct 2, 2004 | 01:18 AM
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Originally Posted by ILLNALI
yea if you're ok with spending over $600 on a friggin exhaust!
works for me jk. I figured that if it is what i want, then i wouldnt be happy with anything else.
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Old Oct 2, 2004 | 06:44 AM
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I got my 3" dynomax cat back from Jegs $246 shipped to my house.
Wish I went with the bullet muffler , Welded sounds good just not as loud.
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Old Oct 5, 2004 | 11:26 PM
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Well, I decided to go w/ Dynomax for the price right now. I couldn't stand the rattle at 2200 and 2600 when giving it about 1/3 throttle. I was embarrased to drive my truck!!! It sounded and reminded me of one of those fart cannons on the ricers!!! Hell, imagine that a V-8 fart can muffler. I just ordered the Ultra-Flow muffler and going to dump it b-4 the axle. Prolly save up some cash and get the full system later, still either Dynomax or Magnaflow. I am leaning more toward the Mag for a full system though. I'll have to see how the Dynomax sounds first though before I make my mind up. Any predictions on the sound, cab resonance, etc??? To me the Mag does seem like a better built muffler but I always wanted to try out the Dyno after I got the Gibson...Zed
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Old Oct 5, 2004 | 11:36 PM
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dynomax = loud.......... that is all
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Old Oct 14, 2004 | 01:02 PM
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Well' I got the DynoMax on and all I got to say is DAAAUUMMMMN !!!! I should have gotten it a long time ago. My truck actually has a deep muscle car sound to it like a SS Camaro, sounds badass!!! Also check this out : It's actually quieter than the Gibson (piece of ****) at idle but romp on it and it starts to talk to ya. I finished the install at about 12am Mon. (damn Gibson didn't want to come off had to run to Wally World to get a sawsall to take care of that problem) and went for a test run. Went about 2 miles out of town and went WOT and SHE REALLY SCREAMS NOW !!!! I know I had to have woke someone up as I passed by their house at 12:30 runnin a 40 to 95 or so WOT blast! Also ran a 0-80 run and seemed to have picked up some low end too!! There is a little drone at 40 to 60 at light throttle and load but most is from being dumped and not running it out the side (went over bridge w/grate at top center and the truck went almost silent). I may look into running it out the side but for now it ROCKS !!!

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