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Getting a better deep throaty sound from my Stainless exhaust

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drambuie

drambuie

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Ok Healey heads...here is a question I would like to throw out there! I have a stainless exhaust system on my 1967 BJ8, it is much too quite for a sports car at least in my opinion. Has anyone of you in Healey land ever experimented with aftermarket resonators?
I know summit racing offers many types of resonators and glass packs. I still want to retain my stock stainless exhaust without cutting it in case I decided to go back to the stock configuration.

My thoughts where to simply remove the stock resonator and replace it with one that offers a richer and deeper throaty sound...then have a couple of exhaust tips bent coming out of the new resonator to look like the stock configuration exiting out the right side and swept up as original.

Can anyone recommend a nice sounding resonator that would fit a BJ8? Maybe in stainless? I thought of using a couple of the cheaper cheery bomb glass packs just to experiment with... Any thoughts or sound clips would be appreciated. Thanks everyone!
 
Way back when they were new we used to ditch the two tail pipes under the petrol tank and just keep the front two silencers with straight pipes running to the back on the opposite side to normal. This produces a nice deep throaty roar and we used to think a bit more power.
 
EV2239 said:
Way back when they were new we used to ditch the two tail pipes under the petrol tank and just keep the front two silencers with straight pipes running to the back on the opposite side to normal. This produces a nice deep throaty roar and we used to think a bit more power.
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Ditto that plus doing a crossover pipe forward the mufflers makes it even better.
 
EV2239 said:
Way back when they were new we used to ditch the two tail pipes under the petrol tank and just keep the front two silencers with straight pipes running to the back on the opposite side to normal. This produces a nice deep throaty roar and we used to think a bit more power.
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AND, if you wanted to keep it looking stock, after removing the two silencers in the rear, replace the two silencers with straight pipes and run them over to the right and have them extend out where they should.
 
Probably not a bad idea Roger (Ausmhly) has. My rear silencers got bashed the first summer. The PO had them going straight back but I've been trying to put thing back to original. We can actually talk with the SS system and the floor sound insulated.
 
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