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on the New Yorker do you notice that the sound level measurements in "sones" compared to the Mercury and GM cars:
quiet road 30 noisy road 30 highway 60 hwy 70
Mercury Marquis 16 24 28 32
Chev Caprice 17 23 29 33
Buick Electra 17 21 29 33
Chrysler N Yorker 18 26 30 34
Ford Gran Torino 18 24 30 37
Fleet--The Buick, Chevy and Mercury all were judged "quiet". The Chrysler was judged "fairly quiet" although it's sound level measurements are very very close with the Ford Gran Torino(which i used as a comparison to the Chrysler) which was judged "quiet".
So fleet do you really think that if you rode in the Chrysler there would really be that much of a difference in sound levels enough to judge it only fairly quiet? look at those numbers, they're very close
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I had two cars before I got my license,a Plymouth Belvedere with a 413 and a Volvo PV544.....The first car I had in my name and drove daily was a orange/black '69 RoadRunner 440 4spd that I got two days into my sophomore year.I instantly peed my old man off and everyone in a two county area by taking it to a exhaust shop and having straight pipes put on it all the way out the backEvery heard a 440 magnum going through the gears wide open with straight pipes??LOUD!!!!.Bad move on my part tho' because I ended up sitting beside the road in a lot of little redneck towns with redlights flashing in my rearview mirror and me saying "yes sir","no sir" a lot and "They were on it when I bought it sir,but as soon as I can afford it sir,I'm getting mufflers".
The first car I purchased with my own money -- Dad gave me a hand-me-down 1973 Mercury Comet when I was in college -- was a 1983 Mercury Lynx, 5 speed. I picked it because it was inexpensive and reasonably solid for an economical little tin can. Didn't hurt that the only one on the lot with a manual transmission was red.
Turned out I hated that car after the first year. It was pretty, but it didn't last. The carburetor gave me repeated fits and left me stranded more than a few times.
The neat thing about it? A co-worker also had an 83 Lynx. We could open each others' car doors, but not start the ignition. This came in handy on several occasions when we'd lock ourselves out of our cars.
I had two cars before I got my license,a Plymouth Belvedere with a 413 and a Volvo PV544.....The first car I had in my name and drove daily was a orange/black '69 RoadRunner 440 4spd that I got two days into my sophomore year.I instantly peed my old man off and everyone in a two county area by taking it to a exhaust shop and having straight pipes put on it all the way out the backEvery heard a 440 magnum going through the gears wide open with straight pipes??LOUD!!!!.Bad move on my part tho' because I ended up sitting beside the road in a lot of little redneck towns with redlights flashing in my rearview mirror and me saying "yes sir","no sir" a lot and "They were on it when I bought it sir,but as soon as I can afford it sir,I'm getting mufflers".
Yeah, you have to watch the noise level!
But today's aftermarket mufflers (and exhaust systems) are both quiet and efficient.
The first car I purchased (as opposed to my first car, which was bought for 50 bucks and given to me for my 15th birthday) was a 1961 Ford Falcon 3 door station wagon with the 170 Thriftpower 6 and 3 on the tree. I paid 200 bucks for it and drove it into the ground.
Why? Because it was affordable and roomy. Uglier than sin though.
I had two cars before I got my license,a Plymouth Belvedere with a 413 and a Volvo PV544.....The first car I had in my name and drove daily was a orange/black '69 RoadRunner 440 4spd that I got two days into my sophomore year.I instantly peed my old man off and everyone in a two county area by taking it to a exhaust shop and having straight pipes put on it all the way out the backEvery heard a 440 magnum going through the gears wide open with straight pipes??LOUD!!!!.Bad move on my part tho' because I ended up sitting beside the road in a lot of little redneck towns with redlights flashing in my rearview mirror and me saying "yes sir","no sir" a lot and "They were on it when I bought it sir,but as soon as I can afford it sir,I'm getting mufflers".
Oh come on !!! You ran the pipes all the way back? On my Firebird, I had headers and empty glasspacks bolted to the collectors. End of the glaspack case was end of the exhaust system. I got to the point of when a straight pipe harley would ride by and couldn't hear the cops telling me what they thought of my exhaust, if I already had the ticket I ask them why they wasn't pulling over the Harley? They were still louder than my Firebird
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Yeah, you have to watch the noise level!
But today's aftermarket mufflers (and exhaust systems) are both quiet and efficient.
And 440s do have a great sound!
They were not nearly as rough on us back then as they are now....I have a 454 5spd crew cab dually 4x4 now that I have dual exhaust from the manifold back with 12" glasspacks on it and if I'm in "town" I short shift it to keep it quiet.I also have a BBC rat rod that I run headers with zoomies on (when it runs) and I keep it out of town because the fine is $75 for loud pipes around here and all they would have to do is take a picture of it and I would lose in court....Just a picture of it is over 100 decibels
BTW Fleet...I saw this pic of a Caddy rat rod and thought you might like it.
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Every heard a 440 magnum going through the gears wide open with straight pipes??LOUD!!!!.Bad move on my part tho' because I ended up sitting beside the road in a lot of little redneck towns with redlights flashing in my rearview mirror and me saying "yes sir","no sir" a lot and "They were on it when I bought it sir,but as soon as I can afford it sir,I'm getting mufflers"
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