Flowmaster Mufflers

[alexdc]

Originally Posted by Mzodarg

$149 Per side, wow. I had an entire cat back, Solo Mach X installed for $60. Of course I had to purchase the exhaust.

sorry if i was unclear....its going to be 149 for both sides buying the mufflers and installing

[TampaBayCamaro]

Alex,
I bought the Hushpower II shorty's from Jegs (can't recall the price off the top of my head but best I could find) and had Huff Mufflers off of 60 install them for me for $160. I worked with Justin and he did a good job.

I can tell you it is cheaper for you to by the exhaust sytem or mufflers and have someone install. If they buy, there is a small mark up.

Is it as loud as a complete cat-back, not at all.

Can you feel the difference in the seat and hear the difference when you start it and get on it, absolutely no doubt!

[rickjames]

I got the Super 44, and they sound great. Bought them at advance for 88.00 a piece, 50.00 to have them put on. I love them.

[Edrock]

Originally Posted by alexdc

another question....will adding only mufflers give me any gains in hp? or is the only way to gain hp with the catback?

Muffler only = sound improvement only for the most part.
Catback = sound improvement and some additional HP/TQ.

...but don't expect huge gains, especially since your Camaro already has an H-pipe, dual exhaust config anyway. If you were converting single exhaust to true dual exhaust, that would give much bigger gains but your car already has a pretty decent dual exhaust setup as it is. By getting rid of the resonators, adding better flowing mufflers, and slightly better scavenging effect from an X-pipe section, your catback solution will gain somewhere around 10-15 rwhp in most cases but that is enough to feel it on the butt dyno and give you a wonderful sound that is all well worth the $. Now add some headers and you will definitely reap some gains. Then add a CAI and even more gains. Then a performance tune and wow (performance tunes usually void powertrain warranties though). But you don't have to do it all at once. Using a staged approach makes it easier on the wallet too.

[liquidG8]

I had flomasters on my 05 GT in a little over 3 yrs. they started ratteling in side muffler loose baffels were to blame.there are aluminized not stainless.talked to flowmaster rep. only warranted for 3 yrs.your on your own.stay away for junk flowmasters go with stainless steel mufflers only.i replaced them with pypes pt.# SFM60VS VIOLATOR axel back mufflers they sound sooooo good very little drone if any i'am totally satisfied and by the way there warranted for life.all you have to do is register them once you recieve them.go on line and check them out.the price is around $300.Magnaflows are stainless also.

[Scrapppy666]

flowmaster does make some stainless steel stuff now

[HotRod6769]

Correct they are doing stainless 409 which is made to there specifications from 2 steel manufactures (USA), I was speaking to the owner at SEMA. By the way did you know MOST of the muffler manufactures have there mufflers made off shore. Flowmasters are made in the USA unlike Pypes which buys knock offs mufflers from China, of everyones products. They sent me over to Centerforce clutches which had the cat-back on there Camaro they told me when they dynoed the car it picked up 22hp and went from 21.7mpg to 23.3mpg sounds pretty good to me.

[navyblueSS]

I will probably be going with the Flowmaster American Thunder catback when my car arrives. This system has one of the best sounds and is priced very nicely.

[latinoslife]

id stay away from flowmaster i have them on my C3 pick up its too raspy and its a 6.1 v8 i preffer glass packs now...

[Edrock]

Originally Posted by latinoslife

id stay away from flowmaster i have them on my C3 pick up its too raspy and its a 6.1 v8 i preffer glass packs now...

The Flowmasters I've had on my cars couldn't be raspy no matter how hard I revved the engine. On the "rasp" scale, Flowmasters are on the complete opposite end of the spectrum. Must have been something else in your setup that was causing the rasp. JMO.

[wullger]

If you go with the full cat-back Flowmaster system, you won't be disappointed

[Scrapppy666]

Originally Posted by Edrock

The Flowmasters I've had on my cars couldn't be raspy no matter how hard I revved the engine. On the "rasp" scale, Flowmasters are on the complete opposite end of the spectrum. Must have been something else in your setup that was causing the rasp. JMO.

I agree with that... my car has absolutely ZERO crackling from back pressure and just screams when revved.... rasp maybe due to too small pipes, restrictive cats, who knows?

[DC-SS]

Originally Posted by latinoslife

id stay away from flowmaster i have them on my C3 pick up its too raspy and its a 6.1 v8 i preffer glass packs now...

I don't think I have ever heard of a Flowmaster muffler referred to as raspy... I had 40s on my past car and I bought the super 44s cat-back for $659 and put them on myself on my 2SS. There are 4 bolts on the sleeve clamps (two bolts per clamp, one on each side), 4 bolts on the tunnel brace, and 4 rubber grommets and the stock exhaust is off. The kit comes in 6 pieces but they are prebent and fit together easily. I took my time doing it and it still only took about 1.5-2 hours. I love them as far as sound goes as I don't like raspy or tinny which it seems like most of the exhaust systems aim for these days. These have a great old school type sound!

[Icntdrv55]

OK so can someone tell me why its better to by the FLowmaster Cat back system with the super 44s at $650 instead of just buying the Super 44s @ $88/piece and have the exhaust shop put on some 3" pipe from the cat back and a x pipe. Is it really cheaper to buy the whole kit as apposed to having an exhaust shop do it?