So for future reference, eventually I intend on changing the exhaust on my car and I want it to sound more like a v8 with a deep roar kind of sound, any tips or pointers?
I wonder if that is possible;
On a SBM, the firing pulses on each bank are; left,right-right,left,right, left-left,right. and so on. So at idle what you might get, is bup..... bup-bup......bup.....bup..... bup-bup.....bup.....and so on,which your brain will turn into; bup-bup ......bup.....bup.....
On the six, splitting the front three into one pipe, and the back three into another, the pulses would be; L-R-L-R-L-R and so on.So here you get ; bup-bup-bup-bup-bup-bup and so on.
So you can't get the "sound".
As to volume, well each 225cylinder is only 28 cubic inches, compared to a teener being about 40.
The slanty is listed as being able to achieve 125psi cylinder pressure, to the teeners 140.
The upshot of that information is that the slanty can't possibly put out the same volume of air anywhere in the rpm band, at any equal rpm to the teener, under any equal load setting.
But, all is not lost. You can still make a slanty loud, that's pretty easy.It just won't sound like anything but a loud slanty.
But I suppose with the right muffler, you could chop off the high-frequency "noise", leaving some "deep"ness. And the right exhaust tip might shape it into a roar. A deep, slanty, roar.
I never used to like that sound. But these days the world is full of V6s, and I have come to be used to it. And they certainly sound better than 4s.
I think I have put 3 different mufflers on my 1980 Volare since 1994. I didn't care for a one of them,lol. Oh well.....Every one of them did sound better than the rotted-out one it replaced.
Good luck in your quest!
Hey, going with Bud's idea of splitting the manifold, I wonder how it would sound with T/A mufflers, dumping out in front of the rear tires?The sound would then be;
bup.....bup.....bup.....bup.....bup....bup.....bup.....on the one side,and
.....bup.....bup.....bup.....bup.....bup.....bup.....bup.....on the other.
lol. Idle that baby down to just above a stall, and it would certainly be distinctive!