60s sounding glass packs?

[koosh]

After searching here, didn’t find too many suggestions. Have 69 SuperBee…440 with Hooker Super Competition long tubes. I have no idea what the current mufflers are as cant find a name on them….would like that “old school glass packs “ sound. Any suggestions?
Thanks in advance….

 

[PeteyDaMan]

I have the Dynomax race bullets and sound pretty good

 

[toolmanmike]

I have a friend with Porter Steel Packs on his Satellite. They sound nice and don't burn out like the fiberglass packs do. Porter Mufflers - Steel Pack Mufflers

 

[#41]

If you're going to go all out 60's, they still make Cherry Bombs... and you can put the sticker in your quarter window.

 

[sam dupont]

My first big block four speed was 7 years old and had burned out glass packs with no packing left when I bought it. I was 16 years old and I thought it sounded perfect. From 3,000 up, it would sing. My best friend could hear me coming from blocks away as he waited to be picked up for night of partying. They were in effect, straight pipes with only one issue. At a certain rpm, the perforated tubes inside would rattle. The previous owner was an adult who loved the car, so straight pipes were not an issue. Me, I couldn't leave it alone. A Judge recommended that I should have OEM mufflers, so I bought Hemi mufflers. I noticed fewer tickets and came to the opinion: a quiet car has more to offer in sound and feels faster to me.

All that to recommend these for the sound of glass packs, but with longevity:

 

[coloradodave]

Check out Speedwaymotors.com. They have Smithys & Porters, both popular back then as well as newer brands of glasspack shaped mufflers. There are a few videos of the sounds on YouTube.

 

[toolmanmike]

With no tail pipes it's got to be loud inside. I remember my Super Bee. I still can't hear!

 

[66 Sat]

I've got Thrush Glasspacks on mine - haven't got a sound video, you'll have to take my word for it that they sound epic!

 

[WileE]

Wow, talk about bringing back memories ! THRUSH mufflers ! A VERY popular install we did back in the garage. Especially if you didn't have the $$ for headers. Their sound was irreplaceable.

<< these were the ones we installed very often !

 

[toolmanmike]

Wow, talk about bringing back memories ! THRUSH mufflers ! A VERY popular install we did back in the garage. Especially if you didn't have the $$ for headers. Their sound was irreplaceable.

ANd cheap.

 

[Darter6]

they still make Cherry Bombs.

Can't get more 60's than Cherry Bombs !!

 

[WileE]

ANd cheap.

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"Don't have the money for headers ? I'll give you the header sound for alot less." was my pitch to a customer. They came out with the Hush Thrush, patterned after the then-popular turbo mufflers, for not quite the decibel level.

 

[#41]

With no tail pipes it's got to be loud inside. I remember my Super Bee. I still can't hear!

Agree. I love the cackle of glass-packs, but you have to run them all the way out to the bumper if you want to preserve your sanity.

 

[AR67GTX]

Wow, talk about bringing back memories ! THRUSH mufflers ! A VERY popular install we did back in the garage. Especially if you didn't have the $$ for headers. Their sound was irreplaceable. View attachment 1700012 << these were the ones we installed very often !

I ran through a couple sets of these on my otherwise stock 70 GTO 4 speed in the early 70s. They made that thing sound incredible rowing through the gears. I think it was the best sounding exhaust system of any car I’ve owned - probably restrictive as hell though with like 2” tailpipes, etc. However they were only good for about 18 months on a daily driver.

 

[Darter6]

Anybody remember Tiger Mufflers ? Same as the Thrush(post #9).Same kind of crimped case.
$5.00 at Hills Department store back in the late 60's.

 

[Nirvana]

Magnaflow makes some stainless steel glass packs that are leagues better than the old cheap glass packs. The sound is not quite as aggressive as a cherry bomb, but they don’t blow out.

 

[AR67GTX]

Magnaflow makes some stainless steel glass packs that are leagues better than the old cheap glass packs. The sound is not quite as aggressive as a cherry bomb, but they don’t blow out.

However, when I was 18 years old, I couldn’t wait for the glass packs to blow out. Sort of the teenage version of clothe-pinning playing cards to my bicycle wheel struts.

 

[sam dupont]

Wow, talk about bringing back memories ! THRUSH mufflers ! A VERY popular install we did back in the garage. Especially if you didn't have the $$ for headers. Their sound was irreplaceable. View attachment 1700012 << these were the ones we installed very often !

I liked them when they had the 3 bolt flange to fit on headers. In farm States you would see them on headers with nothing else.

Some soaked their glass packs with oil in hopes of them burning out sooner

 

[33 IMP]

Many years ago, I swapped my header mufflers/exhaust systems on my 57 chevy, along with the rearend gears.
3.08s with some probably very restrictive stock-looking things (quiet!)

OR

Glass packs set up like header mufflers (no tailpipes at all) that had NO packing left.... with 4.56s. I
f you wacked the glass pack with a wrench, it would ring like a bell. Probably about 95% of uncorked.
I wasn't real popular with my neighbors!

I'm older now (haha) and a lot quieter, and a lot faster, than I was then.

 

[sam dupont]

When I had to install mufflers or go to jail, I tried cut-outs from JC Whitney. I was a poor mechanic when I was 16 and they were flimsy. I bailed on the idea.