H pipe have deeper sound?

SVTFreak

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At least thats what i always heard. Just swapped my X for an H today, and DAYUM, that summbitch sounds terrible. With my magnaflow cat backs, it has a terrible BLAAT sound, much like old glasspacks on an old pickup truck, filled with water and beat flat! I think im gonna go back to the X, it had a deeper mellower sound that didnt POP!

Have i always heard wrong?
 
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Yeah, i know maggies arent the best, but i like them better than borla, bassani, pretty much all others other than flowmasters. I think ill go back to the X. Damn, and i had to weld on 02 bungs (and wideband bung) and all to make that ole rusty H work lol.
 
Well! It seems there are tons of haters on the 'flows, but whenever someone hears em on mine I get nothing but compliments :shrug:

I think with the right X it sounds amazing. More like a car than a raspy truck i.e. mac or single chamber flows...

Why were you switching from x to h in the first place? Sound preference?
 
At least thats what i always heard. Just swapped my X for an H today, and DAYUM, that summbitch sounds terrible. With my magnaflow cat backs, it has a terrible BLAAT sound, much like old glasspacks on an old pickup truck, filled with water and beat flat! I think im gonna go back to the X, it had a deeper mellower sound that didnt POP!

Have i always heard wrong?
lol I had the exact same reaction the first time I installed Magnaflows on my '90 (while I still had the H-pipe). I absolutely hated it. Took the mufflers off and went back to the 3-chamber Flows within a couple of days. I reinstalled the Magnaflows a few years later after getting an x-pipe. Imo the Magnaflows sound miles better with an x-pipe. Especially on a cammed car.

My '92 has Magnaflows and an h-pipe but the car is stock so it's not bad. At idle and cruising speeds they remind me of Super Turbos.

I've been planning on going back to 3-chamber Flows on both cars but that's way down the "to do" list. I miss that chambered sound.
 
I think the Hpipe with two chamber Flowmasters is "Classic" fox. I have this settup on my '87 vert. I just love the deep hollow rumble.

I have three Fox mustangs.
The other two have Bassani x pipes. One has two chamber Flowmasters, and the other has Dynomax. The x seems to be a cleaner,smoother tone.

I think all my cars sound great but my favorite is my '87 with the H pipe.
 
We all have many different combos. Thats the beauty of a free world.

But one thing we all agree on is:
Nothing sounds better than the 5.0 Mustang:D
 
Im torn i just bought a 90 GT it has BBK shorties,Off road X-pipe and Mac cat back..to me it sounds ok a bit tinnie ...Not as deep as flows i dont know what to do...LOL.should i go with the new Flowmaster American thunder cat back i had that on my 93 GT with stock headers,off road H-pipe it sounded deeper...but i love the X pipe on my 90 way better cleaner sound I just think the Mac cat back is hurting the sound :shrug: here is my 90 with the Mac cat back and my 93 GT vert with the New super 44's cat back...what do you think i should do????..Oh yeah both are stock...the red has stock headers,,and the 90 GT has BBK headers and to me the 90 is to quiet....i thought it should have been louder no?

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