SUPER V8 SOUND - How to Muscle Truck Your Exhaust

Follow along as I go through the steps of making my 2001 Tahoe with a 5.3 liter VORTEC sound like the iconic Muscle Truck.

[@ethanblack6852]

Yeah with stock cats manifolds and stock cam your not going to get the crazy muscle truck sounds out of it. Does sound really nice though sounds almost identical to my 02 Tundra

[@hunterholzer]

Thank you. What's your Tundra exhaust have?

[@ethanblack6852]

@@hunterholzer It’s the 4.7 2uz. 2uz and the small block Chevy have the same firing order that’s why they sound so similar, I’m not sure about yours. Mine is shorty headers with 3inch side pipes true dual no cats just piping. Not the biggest fan of the way it sounds😕 changing it up soon

[@hunterholzer]

@@ethanblack6852 sounds like a cool look and very loud highway trips

[@CarGuyV8]

The muscle truck has true dual exhaust, and that’s the main thing you’re missing. I’ve put true duals dumped on several of my hotrods. Chevys and Fords. They all have had that very clean aggressive muscle truck sound quality.

[@jameshiggins4067]

you remind me of that one really cool manager or supervisor at every job that you just see more like your best friend coworker

[@robking8576]

True dual equal length is the answer to muscle truck. Plenty of vids on here on how to do it. Gives that Corvette sound

[@johnlennon8653]

Single Thrush glass pack with axle dump on my’21 Ram. Love the sound, loud when I’m on it, but deep when cruising.

[@JL-hw6lo]

I seen you in Pittsburgh a few times, very weird how ur KZbin channel popped up 😂

[@hunterholzer]

It's hard to miss a big hoe 😏

[@wun1gee]

Muscle truck used actual dual exhaust with 12" Dynomax Race Bullets. That's where it's getting it's sound. Look up any video of a smallblock with Race Bullets and you can immediately tell that's where it gets the sound.

[@dangerousjordan1]

This guy does an excellent Nathan Fielder impression

[@daroachdoggjr188]

Just discovering this channel and I so far love everything about it

[@ifuondstairs3037]

Was always funing doing the second gear to a stop with mine stock cats full duels with x pipe from there

[@thebeez9487]

Hey, that's Pittsburgh. Subbed hometown.

[@hunterholzer]

My brother ✊

[@Drunken_Hamster]

What you need is shorty headers with an equal-length crossover 2.5 or 2.75-inch duals into a 1.414x diameter Y pipe or a custom Mac Prochamber style setup. Just a big (2x the engine displacement) empty stainless steel chamber with bell mouth entrances and exits to smooth out the flow and no sharp corners so it resonates better. Then run the dual 2.5-2.75 inch outs to quad 4-inch rolled edge tips. After that, get you a NICE head/cam specced by David Vizard. But definitely not a shelf cam or anything from Brian TOOLey, those won't make you any significant power, but a David Vizard setup will have you beating the average 6.0/6.2 build.

[@16jeepbuddy]

Someone on here said it already, the way to get that sound would be too lengthen the passenger side of the exhaust to make it equal length. The extra length from the driver side exhaust before it goes into the Y changes the timing of the exhaust pulses. so if you were to measure the distance from the end of the exhaust manifold to where both sides of the exhaust meet the Y, and make them the exact same length, it will have more of a Corvette sound to it. The muscle truck has the same exhaust length from the headers to the end of the exhaust tips because it runs down either side of the truck.

[@ianjohnson5365]

Needs equal length exhaust to sound good

[@mid-tnsupply3914]

Opinion, not fact

[@ianjohnson5365]

@@mid-tnsupply3914 your truck is probably squatted then

[@colbywedgworth9676]

Incorrect. Needs timed pulses not equal length or 180. Pulse-length-matching header tube length will make the pretty sounds.

[@randyshaw81]

Does sound good. Real throaty.

[@hunterholzer]

Throaty is a good way to describe it 👌

[@agb0078]

Tell us more about throaty

[@utahcountypicazospage5412]

Which direction did you put the glass pack. louvers facing exhaust deep sound lots of popping.louvers flipped more flow more rasp

[@hunterholzer]

Louvers facing away from the engine

[@Kdog307]

love your take ion makin entertaining videos keep em comin

[@3vann5567]

The older GM small blocks have a different firing order than the LS family. Plus, muscle trucks would have aggressive cams and some long tube headers

[@mikehall737]

Headers and another one of those mufflers and you get that sounds you want

[@crw3673]

Let us know how it sounds after the cam change!

[@hunterholzer]

But first, twin wuhan whistles

[@A2J_Tim]

@@hunterholzer you mean Nagasaki noisy boys, lol.

[@ONEOFUS767]

My recommendation for makeimg your truck more badass is long tube headers and an x pipe

[@Southrn_Maniacyago]

And 4 dumps

[@CumminsDriver]

Sounds good, I recognized the tahoe from the a-team off road videos. Do y'all still do any off roading together? Also, I think all the added horsepower also has a lot to do with the sound of the muscle truck lol

[@hunterholzer]

Oh yeah, we still go out occasionally. I had to use my taco for the last offroad vid because I was midway through the exhaust build. And you're probably right on the added horsepower lol

[@shanesmith817]

Love the sound.

[@slowguy66]

Long tubes no cats 3 1/2 inch pipe and the shortest dynomax bullet mufflers. You can find turndowns. that’s the exhaust you want.

[@thegrey8643]

You ought to hear such a set up with heads and cam. :) And no cat.

[@riverrat573]

Frieburger has mid-length headers, true duals 3"E-4"GP-3"E and his turns down and dumps just behind the rear axle. He also has a built LS. Your Tahoe sounds really good for being a single exhaust. I've been thinking about surprising my wife with a new exhaust on her ZJ. She doesn't want me to, though. Lol Does your Tahoe have anything done to the 5.3?

[@hunterholzer]

Thank you! The engine is all stock. Tell your wife all engines must loudly play the sound of your people lol

[@riverrat573]

@@hunterholzer I've tried telling her that. Won't listen to reason. 😂

[@mikehall737]

My Yukon sound like this but mirr like that sound you want because I got high flow cats and a magnaflow Rumble Muffler which is a flowmeter super 44 knock off

[@sebastianmarron875]

What’s the kit you used called?

[@hunterholzer]

The piping was a black horse racing kit off Amazon

[@erroneousjoe1301]

nice man might do this to my muscle truck build

[@hunterholzer]

LET THE V8s PLAY THE MUSIC OF OUR PEOPLE

[@Mark_466]

Equal length exhaust makes the v8 muscle car/truck sound. Driver side crossover pipe to the passenger creates that imbalance truck clap/rasp noise. Need to add a loop in the passenger side and push the y pipe back if using single inlet single outlet

[@hunterholzer]

Oh no. That's what those 180 degree pieces were for

[@Mark_466]

@@hunterholzer yea if you got the room I had to make mine out of 90s. Check out the most recent short on page. Definitely does not sound like the usual f150 lol. Long tubes, 3” exhaust all the way. X pipe. Black widow neighborhaters. Plus the loop in the passenger side to make it equal. Not zooming cause I’m on 35s with front and back ranch hands. But sounds border line drag truck lol

[@Mark_466]

@@hunterholzer a lot of exhaust shops don’t even know about the equal length loop. They’ll just blame it on the specific muffler saying it’s just to loud. But like why don’t mustangs, corvettes, etc clap like trucks and SUV’s when they get any exhaust done. It’s all ran down the middle/ equal. Can’t do that with most trucks/suvs due to the 4x4 and or gas tank or whatever else will be in the way. Look some videos up of equal length silverados. Sounds like a corvette.

[@Southrn_Maniacyago]

Longtube headers, ctsv X pipe 4 tips dumped

[@horseshoemountainprojects8144]

Did it effect the gas milage?

[@hunterholzer]

Nope. Mileage appears unaffected

[@billyrussell6921]

Dynomax mini race bullet are different than normal glasspacks

[@Kdog307]

i got 3" pipe and 3" short as i could find glass pack muffler no cats stock new manifolds and bein fed by a 454, and your right the snap crackle n pops are the cherry bomb in my setup as well id do it to everything i own, even the mower isnt safe

[@krichtainswanson1931]

Sounds like a normal exhaust. You should have done a equal length you had all the peaces to compete it.

[@Thoroughly_Wet]

As a person who owns a muscle truck, just dump it out behind the front wheel well.

[@redspain349]

Tig it next time!

[@markbates2059]

No cats straight pipes out the side x pipe

[@iNtRoVeRsIoNaLiSm]

im pretty sure your gonna need better heads, pistons, Cam, crank valves intake, wide bore and stroker and about 100 other things to get close to muscle truck sound.

[@jeremybennett5547]

Im more of a chambered muffler kinda guy myself Like flowmaster or borla

[@Superb_Owl80]

Equal length y pipe or x pipe will get you very close.

[@KoryBrooks]

Try an x pipe into a y pipe

[@shawncordeiro5078]

TRY TRUE DUALS

[@dadgarage7966]

The best part is it really gets the ladies' attention!

[@agb0078]

Oh yeah, except they're just female not ladies.

[@yucannthahvitt251]

I just want to figure out how to make a normal american V8 sound like an M156 powered E63 AMG mercedes. You know, the NA 6.2s that sounded incredible, before they made the AMGs all very fast but fast but very boring sounding twin turbo v8s. To me that sounds better than the muscle truck, which is just very loud and aggressive. Somehow those AMGs sound mean without sounding loud and aggressive.

[@A2J_Tim]

that welding though, damn... if you are burning through welding on exhaust pipe your heat setting is way to high. if you want that tinny sound you need dual exhaust into an X pipe then back to duel, that will make it tinny sounding and if you want to amplify that you need long tubes.

[@hunterholzer]

CONGRATULATIONS. You're the first one to mention the welds. I was afraid the internet was getting too soft lol

[@A2J_Tim]

@@hunterholzer we all gotta learn, I love how you made fun of your own welds in the video, haha. Bless you and I hope you find the sound your looking for.

[@hunterholzer]

@@A2J_Tim thank you my good sir

[@FredBuildandFix]

And muscle truck is dual exhaust

[@_BALLIN_]

Cool video man. I thought it was funny. Truck sounds good. Don't listen to these gayboys that keep saying its lame or to delete the cats or whatever else. You do you

[@hunterholzer]

Thanks my dude

[@landycefaine7020]

That’s what happens when you leave cats on it doesn’t do much

[@50nick83]

He might've been better off just using the cats

[@hunterholzer]

@@50nick83 tried it. Sounds nicer with any glass pack

[@A2PECT]

Ditch the cats and it will sound better

[@lumpyzx2645]

Sounds pretty good, I just put a 3 inch thrush welded muffler on my 5.3 yukon and it sounds good, has kinda that 80s muscle sound. And for less than 100 bucks of material (50 dollar muffler, 20 dollar piece of pipe, 4 5 dollar clamps (had to cap off one of the dual outlets on the pipe, why did they even put it there? It does nothing), and 2 sawzall blades (broke one) it turned out pretty good. Would sound better if it was duals but I'm happy with it for no more than I did to it.

[@jeremye5714]

Waist of time when you can just remove all the pipe past the cat

[@nine_lives5597]

still cant beat the sound of a v8 with open headers in my opinion, sheeesh

[@kylemesser4281]

Not even close to the muscle truck In setup and sound. But not to bad sounding

[@Joe-xj2tb]

STR8 PIPES ARE THE BEST!!!

[@JR-yr8xm]

Cat delete

[@shadowopsairman1583]

Backpressure is bad

[@brandoncrimmins6296]

I hate to tell you this… But it’s really the cam responsible for the sound. ESPECIALLY on a Chevy because they are notorious for using incredibly lazy cams.

[@gordowg1wg145]

I don't get this infatuation with making one's vehicle into a noisy POS, even the cars that are actually quick... If anyone wants to impress me, make a "performance" exhaust that's quiet AF, so you're not being a wank', nor attracting the attention of officers from two counties over - we call them "cop caller" exhausts for a reason.

[@vagabondroller]

I love V8’s but there is nothing more trash than a Tahoe or work truck with loud exhaust. 90% of people who do this, entered the country without permission.

[@hunterholzer]

COMMUNISM.

[@landycefaine7020]

Lame