Finally, she's had the new system installed!
It's 2" with an H section and Smithy's mufflers.
Sounds so sweet!!!!

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And here's the girl overshadowing and old Porsche. Only just managed to get it into the workshop!!

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I have never heard of that type of muffler. Is it a british company? They are pretty slim and I could imagine that they do make some noise eh.

 

Wolfman, you are showing your youth. Smitty's were the first real hotrod muffler and were very popular in the 50's and 60's. Honest Charley (okay old farts) sold thousands of them. They are the perfect muffler for the nostalgic sound. I put them on my friends 50 and 54 Oldsmobiles. Sound sweet.

 

I'm young and I've heard of Smithy's Mufflers. That exhaust looks awsome. I also like that workshop. It looks like it is just a standard farm or industrial building on a concrete pad. I hadn't though of using one of those buildings for a workshop. IS it heated and cooled?

 

cheers!
It's my friends workshop and there is indeed no heating or cooling. During the winter he works wearing 3 sweaters, a beanie hat and gloves.

The smithy's are great because they are small and can be tucked away to give more ground clearance, which means she can go lower !!!

 

I have Smithy's installed on Big Red ('68 Cutlass S convertible); motor is .030 over, w/a mild cam. They sound GREAT! Also have them on the '92 CC. Can't beat the sound, in my mind. Yes, they are old school, and may not be as effective as FM, but love the sound so much more. I have glass paks on the Silver Bullet; totally different, but still old school.

 

Hey Olds64, I did not mean to imply all youngsters (at my age I consider you young since I remember you saying you are 29) did not know what Smittys are. I was more implying all us old farts know what they are. Aron, I love old school. If I remember right we used to refer to Smittys as steel paks and then there were glass paks. Glass paks would burn out pretty quick and really get loud. Then they really sounded great when you down shifted and lett off the gas and "racked your pipes". I got a ticket in my 60 Impala convertible in the parking lot of the bowling alley with my glass paks. Another good thing about Simttys is they are cheap and well built.

 

No problem. Truthfully, I've heard alot of good things about Smithy's mufflers.

 

Olds 64 did you hear about them from your dad? I had a set of steel pak mufflers on my first real car , 66 Impala SS but for the life of me I can't remember back to 1976 to find a name for them. i do remember they were more bottle shaped similar to cherry bombs and they were black. The speed shop where I bought them told me they would last for as long as I had the car and that was 5 years , they never changed the sound they emitted. They were loud especially with the headers.

 

I recall seeing the Smithy's Mufflers on-line and in car mags before. Perhaps you had Dynomax glasspacks on your 66 Impala. Dynomax makes a glasspack that is shaped like the Cherry Bombs and Thrushes that is black.

 

Smitty's were the muffler of choice when I first started into cars in the stone age used to connect them to the dinosaurs butt for that great sound when he farted I have similar mufflers on my 57 great retro sound makes the 455 sound very mean and nasty. The ricer's shake and die when I pull up next to them it scares them that much

 

Remember this was in 1976 and they weren't glasspacks.For all I know they could have been empty.I was 18 and wanted something that would make her rumble.

 

http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/s...=mufflers+poll

 

I lived in Britain for a period of time when I was younger, I am curious as to how you manage to pilot that behemoth through the teeny tiny roads that cover the land? Or, do you just stick to Motorways?

 

People just tend to get out of the way when they see me coming!!!
There's actually quite a big American Car Scene here, loads of full size cars, Caddy's etc. I rarely see any Olds' at car shows though and when they do pop up they tend to be Cutlasses. I think mine is the only Pillarless Delta 88 in the country!

 

I think Smithy's mufflers are not glasspacks but actually have baffles in them don't they?

 

according to this they are glass...

http://www.reds-headers.com/html/mufflers.html