"old skool" Smitties [not Smithys] were steel packs, machine shop shavings prolly, nothing sounds as good - IMO Thrush or Flowmaster are as good as Smithys, which are a glasspak knock off of the original
"When we tug a single thing in nature, we find it attached to the rest of the world" ~ John Muir "When we tug a single thing on an old truck, we find it falls off" ~ me Some TF series details & TF heater pics