[DeTomaso] NOISY MUFFLERS / Dick Ruzzin

[MikeLDrew at aol.com]

In a message dated 9/26/09 18 28 30, dickruzzindesign at aol.com writes:


> Has anyone ever had mufflers rebuilt?
> 
> My GTS ( I think that is what they are.) mufflers look great and are 
> welded to the header pipe.  I have had them since 1975, about 35,000 miles on 
> them.
> They are getting noisy.
> I like everything about them except the sound is getting a bit much.
> 
> I can drive down the main street of my town in second gear and make car 
> alarms go off. 
> 

>>>If your exhaust is too loud, that means you are TOO OLD!!!! :>)

Seriously.   Your car is a '74 GTS, which came from the factory NOT with a 
proper GTS exhaust system, but rather a plain-Jane L-model girly-man 
exhaust, with some fakey-doo oversize chrome tips attached.   With time, the 
mufflers rust out inside, and the resonators rust out.   Chances are if you whack 
the muffler cans with a rubber mallet you'll hear all sorts of crud rattling 
around inside.

(This assumes you didn't replace the mufflers at some point in the past, 
which I don't think you have--and you're the original owner).

It's pointless to try to salvage worn-out, girly-man stock mufflers.  Since 
your headers are totally non-stock (turbo conversion), you have some 
serious exhaust work ahead of you anyway.   You might as well just get new 
mufflers--either factory GTS if you are into originality, or any number of 
aftermarket mufflers which will provide far better performance than the GTS 
mufflers.

The GTS mufflers are very classy looking, and relatively quiet compared to 
wide-open things like Borla, Flowmaster etc. but they are also substantially 
more expensive.

Mike