$40 Muffler Shootout—Engine Masters Preview Ep. 49

Budget mufflers. What do you get for $40? How do they sound and how much power do they kill? On this episode of Engine Masters presented by AMSOIL, we run our 408 Cleveland with 12 different muffler options, including no muffler, straight through, chambered, and turbo style. Which one is best for you is up to you, but here’s all the info you’ll need to make the decision.

[PLASMAKVA]

The first muffler looks like ray charles welded with his feet😅lol

[jbj]

Please test some spin tech mufflers..they claim to add power and they do imo sound the best

[mikefo]

Chamber mufflers sound great and have a badass idle but u lose power compared to a striaght through non chamber exhaust like the magnaflows

[jwsouhrada]

Would love to have heard the idle sounds

[dole]

I have the Cherry Bomb Vortex muffler on one of my trucks and it sounds awesome

[bulldogstrut]

The audio makes these sound the same to me, but I guess I'm not hearing what they are.

[thumper]

Should of seen what straight pipe did to hp

[mikewillett]

I'm not a fan of the sound of some chambered mufflers. Hard to describe but I call it a "nasally que" sound. Which of these has the least of that sound?

[saulotamarez]

They have something in similar…. Horribly wending lol you can see the lines

[mikemarks]

I don’t know about you guys but all of them sound the same to me

[hotrodray]

You won't get the same results on a 350 HP street engine.

[gtboss]

6 months and your buying another knockoff

[zuestoots]

For those that dont pay. The mufflers only lost around 8-10hp across the board..The factor is that you have to have the proper sized exhaust for your power output. Super Turbo's did the worst. The flow through did the best.

[PackRyan]

4:47 high school students in an exhaust shop

[TheDaninator]

I’ve put 4 different styled Cherry Bomb mufflers on my truck at the same time once as an experiment...you know, for science. 😂👍

[excelerater]

if its not a straight through muffler its restricted

[EJtcbPLAYS]

I've had the thrush welded on my Silverado for years. Love it. It's actually outlasted my dad's trucks flow 40, and moms knock off 2 chamber, as far as rust/corrosion, etc.
Totally recommend it if you want the flow sound, without the price.

[tylerseitz]

Try a regular glasspack, start with a brand new and then try one that is burned out. See what the differnce is.

[GJ-DT]

For the money you can't beat summit muffs.

[stephandebiase]

So I have a 72 skylark stock 350 2bbl, and I'm gonna run true duals. I want the car to sound like how christine sounds like at idle or how just a stock 72 skylark 2bbl muffler single pipe but I cant find anything like it. So what muffle would sound like that?