4 mufflers?

Ok, I'm 50 and have been around cars a fair amount in that time. Have never seen someone with 4 mufflers on a car before. So I can speculate on WHY you might do this with a street car back in the day but I thought I'd see if there were any of out senior members that could comment on having ever seen a street car with 4 mufflers back in the day?

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=2086862884665181

 

That car was a hustler, "silver bullet" took thousands and thousands of dollars on Woodward avenue so they say

Ole Norm Dilhe RIP if I butchered his last name I'm sorry, but he had 4 muffs under his 11sec GS

 

I've never seen an exhaust done like that. Although it sounds pretty good on the vid, I can't say that I like the way it looks aesthetically. But boy, do I love that car! It's so old school and the way street machines were done back then. I would have to change that exhaust if it were mine and put that vintage stuff on a shelf. Very cool car!

 

70 Chevelle SS models came stock with 2 mufflers and 2 resonators.
Duane

 

That thing is AWESOME! I can't say I've seen 4 mufflers run seperately like that before. 2 muffs with 2 resonators inline as Duane mentioned, sure, but 4 with dumps is a new one on me.

 

Been reading about this car since I was a kid. Never saw this video before, thanks for sharing.

 

I grew up near Detroit. I began My cruising on Woodward in 1976. Saw this car on and off over the years being driven on the street.

 

Yes , Norm used to say it took the bark out of the exhaust. It was pretty quiet going down the track

 

The gn two mufflers + 2 resonators. The 1st thing to remove was the resonators + tailpipes - been there, done that - and install a pair of short drop pipes. I reatained the orig mufflers.

 

I still run the same set up that Norm came up with. Just like the one kenny t posted. Long case Dynomax with Dynomax bullets.

 

We run 4 mufflers on my buddy's F100 473" sleeper. 4 magnaflows, not much loss in power, keeps a big engine sneaky-ish.....

 

I remember reading about the silver bullet and it had 4 Cadillac mufflers so it would be “quiet” on the street.
I’m just abnormal enough to try that with the Wagon. Speak softly and carry a big stick.

 

That’s a pretty cool car, can’t help but get a big stupid grin when it stands up on its suspension. Spent many of my young years on Woodward just dreaming about the cars going by.

 

I saw that car at the Meadowbrook concours show in Rochester Hills back in 1998 where we were participants with a `70 RAIV automatic Judge convertible that I had restored. If memory serves me correctly, the GTX was not restored at that time. Pretty cool piece of history. And FWIW, we won best in class with the Judge

 

yes , there was a sudden splurge of serious street cars about the time the bullet made the magazines .
roush did the BIG block mustang II build for a customer , and a guy detuned a challenger pro stock ( hemi I think , tunnel ram , lenco ) .
pre pro pretty street .

 

I don't care what car it was or how fast it was. that car looks like it's owned by Joe dirt.

 

My 96 Cadillac Fleetwood brougham has 2 mufflers and 2 resonators for that full v8 sneaky power she has after my computer upgrades..

 

Agreed. In a good way

 

I think a few of you did not watch the video to see that there are 4 mufflers and none of them are in series with another muffler. It’s more like the header collectors have a Y connection on them so 2 mufflers per cylinder bank sharing the load. I’m guessing they did this partly for noise but mostly due to the limited flow of the mufflers from the day only having 2 or 2.25in inlet/outlet.

 

I believe you are 100% correct as to the why's.