Its a common ailment so it seems. I did the glass pack on the American. To loud, I added a second one up in front of the axle! Still to loud, so, I switched the rear muffler to a Dynomax turbo. Before the sound deadener it was still on the verge of being to loud. Now it sounds perfect to me, though I know the actual exhaust note did not change. I have repeated the to loud with my WJ. I put a dynomax ultraflow on it. Oops, to loud. I have sound deadener left I plan on adding to the rear of the WJ. Someday. For now it keeps my wife from borrowing it :) Sent from my BlackBerry® wireless device from U.S. Cellular -----Original Message----- From: tom jennings <tomj@xxxxxxx> Date: Sun, 18 Oct 2009 14:52:06 To: AMC, Rambler, Nash, Jeep and family<amc-list@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: Re: [AMC-list] SoCal TT videos (Sunday) On Sun, Oct 18, 2009 at 10:08, Matt Haas <mhaas@xxxxxxx> wrote: > That's not too far off of the exhaust note on my 67 American wagon. My car > has a 2.25" exhaust also (two owners ago, it was changed over to mandrel > bent stainless) but it's bone stock otherwise. I have a generic Midas > muffler on it now but it had an unknown brand stainless on it that was much > louder when I got it. That muffler sort of moo'd and it was one of the first > things changed on the car when I got it. > Oooh stainless, that must be very nice on the Least Coast with all that salt! Have you had any problems with stainless, brittle or anything? YEah, I'm not fully happy with my exhaust. It's way too loud, and right under my left ear. It didn't help that I had no door seals for a year, and no stereo to turn up louder :-) ANd the cam is so pointy -- and no overlap to speak of -- it apparently sounds really wierd to people with an ear for cams (I'm not one of them). The effect is a bit comical on this car. THe shop that did the work welded the pipe to the flange!! Ruining a hard to get part, and pretty much guarenteeing failure (though it hasn't yet) and transmitted noise. It should have a ball end and I assume they couldn't find or fab a solution so they welded it. The when it wouldn't clear the studs, they hammered a big dent in the pipe to clear a suspension bolt! I noticed all this a month later. Won't use that shop again! I'm leaving it as-is until a problem appears, or until I need to pull it to weld an oxygen sensor bung. Though the dent intrudes, the exhaust has about 4X the area of stock so it's good enough for now. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://list.amc-list.com/pipermail/amc-list-amc-list.com/attachments/20091018/9030ccb3/attachment.htm> _______________________________________________ AMC-list mailing list AMC-list@xxxxxxxxxxxx http://list.amc-list.com/listinfo.cgi/amc-list-amc-list.com _______________________________________________ AMC-list mailing list AMC-list@xxxxxxxxxxxx http://list.amc-list.com/listinfo.cgi/amc-list-amc-list.com