FloridaMan
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I am looking to modify my daily driver to sound more like my vintage car. It has a 3.6L V6 in it, and the other has a 390 FE in it. What changes do I want to make to my exhaust to get that sound?
You really need separate exhausts from the engine to tailpipe joining them in the middle will not help you here, a 6-3-2 arrangement is what you need. A 6-1-2 arrangement will not IMO give you the sound you need at all.Current thought process: 2.5-3" pipe. Modify the underside so I can hang dual pipes, and use a pair of H pipes to hold them together. 1 dummy and 1 real. Either remove the flexible pipe hose thing GM put on the current headers and make new combined pipes, or just go with new headers to match the pipe. Go almost entirely straight, but slap a pair of Flow Master Super 44's on the ends, possibly with a quad pipe output. Would this sort of set up give me something close to the result I am seeking?
You really need separate exhausts from the engine to tailpipe joining them in the middle will not help you here, a 6-3-2 arrangement is what you need. A 6-1-2 arrangement will not IMO give you the sound you need at all.
What you are trying to achieve is very theoretical and experimental and will take some serious trial and error. The firing order of your v6 and which exhausts go to which pipe will dramatically alter the sound but you can't really predict what it's going to be until you do it.