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| | | | Joined: May 2006 Posts: 92 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: May 2006 Posts: 92 | What exhaust setup sounds good on a 235? I have the original exhaust manifold. Dont want to spend too much money on it though. Does a cherry bomb sound good? Just stock exhaust? Fenton headers with dual exhaust? Any other suggestions? Thanks | | | | | Joined: Sep 2006 Posts: 2,393 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Sep 2006 Posts: 2,393 | Fenton's sound good, but it's costly unless you find a good deal on EBay.Use a stock exhaust with a Cherry Bomb for loud and annoying to some.Go to your local parts store and find an inexpensive open chamber muffler. Pep Boys,Advanced Auto,etc. usually have many styles in stock.You might even catch a sale.
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| | | | | Joined: Aug 2005 Posts: 6,377 Ex Hall Monitor | | Ex Hall Monitor Joined: Aug 2005 Posts: 6,377 | Personal preference for a 235 is no muffler at all for me. My old 55.1 panel had a bad muffler & tail pipe when I was a lad. I was too broke to afford a muffler and pipe so I took the tail pipe off of an old buick & cut it so it slipped over the exhaust pipe on the panel, made a 90° turn and cut it where it just cleared the running board on the driver's side. It wasn't too loud and sounded cool. 
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| | | | | Joined: Dec 2007 Posts: 1,403 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Dec 2007 Posts: 1,403 | I wouldn't know as my exhaust pipe broke in half about two feet before the muffler. It's right under the floor board and doesn't sound that bad. I'm gonna see about sticking a piece of pipe over it and putting it back together. I also had the same idea about a cherry bomb, they sound good on old tractors, make 'em sound like trucks, so why not on a 235? | | | | | Joined: Feb 2001 Posts: 4,095 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Feb 2001 Posts: 4,095 | flowmaster 40's. i have a fenton header with a reasonably stock mufflers and it sounds ok to me. go to mongo garage and see if his site still has the sound of the flowmasters on it. ron
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| | | | | Joined: Jun 2005 Posts: 1,756 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Jun 2005 Posts: 1,756 | I am a flowmaster fan, but I don't know how yours would sound with 2 cyl. missing | | | | | Joined: Aug 2007 Posts: 1,859 Grumpy old guy playing with trucks, cars, and boats | | Grumpy old guy playing with trucks, cars, and boats Joined: Aug 2007 Posts: 1,859 | 6-cylinders with straight pipe is my preference.
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| | | | | Joined: Jan 2007 Posts: 615 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Jan 2007 Posts: 615 | Man..Must be no cops in the midwest
You lucky devils | | | | | Joined: Aug 2005 Posts: 6,377 Ex Hall Monitor | | Ex Hall Monitor Joined: Aug 2005 Posts: 6,377 | It's just not that loud if you keep your foot out of it. 
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| | | | | Joined: Dec 2007 Posts: 1,403 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Dec 2007 Posts: 1,403 | Yeah, my brother has an '85 Chevy with a V8 350 with straight pipes and it's not loud unless you give it some GAS!!! | | | | | Joined: Jul 2006 Posts: 707 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Jul 2006 Posts: 707 | Trucks are for working. I have a steel pack bottle behind a stock manifold, and a turnout to just forward of the fender. I can see it through my convex, and I love the sound of that six-holer in full cry!
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