Best stude exhaust note (whatcha got?)

[GThawkwind]

I'm just doing a little day dreaming and thinking about kind of exhaust system I plan to use with the 53. I've heard some really fine sounding studes out there but was wondering what the best sounding setup was. I saw a clip right here of someone running a 232 on the stand with no exhaust except the cast manifolds right here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hy4eIuo7XNI Now that sounded really nice. I've also heard R2 Avantis that sounded amazing, and a few really good custom setups. I wondered how a stude would sound with straight pipe and no muffler at all, since they sound so good on the stand. I'm a sucker for a sweet sounding engine, and the way a car sounds is super important to me. I know you guys have some sweet sounding cars, and would love to hear what you think is the best sounding studebaker, studerbaker powered only though. So what clips can you show me? I would love to hear some wild stuff crazy stuff too. If you know please include info about the setup as well.

[62champ]

Doesn't have to be a V8 to sound good either...

[GThawkwind]

Yes that's why I didn't specifie. I've seen this one before too

[62champ]

Add two cylinders, but keep them all lined up

[tomlewis]

This is funny. I can remember vividly the first time I saw an Avanti because I HEARD it first. I can remember the corner I was standing on and how my head snapped around to see what was making that rumble. I was 16 in 1963 and wanted an Avanti immediately. I'm now on my second one and the sound is still sweet. Tom

[Noxnabaker]

Side-valve sixes aint in no need of silencer, that I discovered when I bought a -50 Windsor once & found a muffler under the car (only one) that had "Ford" stamped on it & I thought "you're under the wrong car!" & replaced it with a straight pipe.
Only loud when the pedal hit the metal... but a sweet sound!

[BobWaitz]

Our 182 cubic inch Stude V8:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QaunnRr5z2I

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nuf8rF9Bbro

[SN-60]

Hard to beat the great sound of an R2 avanti running through glasspacks without the equalizer, and with intake crossover plugged..................WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[bezhawk]

Loud doesn't cut it for me any more. I go for more subtle with the hint that if pushed would blow yer freakin' doors clean off!

[mbstude]

Hope Jim doesn't mind me posting his old video of his old Avanti. I think when this was shot, the car only had 7,000 original miles. It sounded much better at 10,000 miles with the clone R3 heads. <grin>

BTW, the end of the video was not staged.

[63t-cab]

Maybe (hopefully) the Trooper just wanted to admire the Avanti <G>

Hope Jim doesn't mind me posting his old video of his old Avanti. I think when this was shot, the car only had 7,000 original miles. It sounded much better at 10,000 miles with the clone R3 heads. <grin>

BTW, the end of the video was not staged.

[GThawkwind]

Now that was hilarious!

[Jet Green Daytona]

I don't have a video or sound clip for you to hear, but I have 2.5 inch pipes with 2.5 in flowmaster series 40 mufflers on my Daytona with a 289. Its a true dual exhuast that was all custom bent, I usually don't go anywhere with it with out getting a complement on the way it sounds.

Todd

[grobb284]

An Avanti R2 with R3 headers and 2" diameter exhaust all the way back, but instead of mufflers utilized 3 5/8 diameter stainless tubes the length of the original mufflers. There was nothing inside the 3 5/8 diameter shells. The ends unscrewed in case we wanted to install baffling or packing, but we never did. It sounded just a little more rumble than factory at idle, and driving in town. Raspy when accelerating hard.

When making these mufflers, we went to an exhaust repair shop, and took their take offs back and cut them apart. Most interesting was from a Mazda truck, (before the Ranger), and it was a round empty shell.

There are enough bends with the original Avanti to make chambers for some deadening of the exhaust.

[Roscomacaw]

Here's my infantile efforts at recording a 289 with a notchy carb and a cranky 3-spd. The digital camera was bungee-corded to the lip of the Lark's deck lid. Wind noise overtook it as the speed went up.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=55CMmtsevT8