My dad found a Cherry Bomb Turbo muffler at his shop, its new and still in its box. What do you guys think of this muffler is it good, or is it not even worth putting it on, and save some money and get a Magnaflow later. Any info. would help since its a free muffler, but if its not worth it theirs no point. Any comments would help, Thank Fellas.

 

I have a 24" cherry bomb on my 4.7 check out the pics in the owners gallery album name is my user name. I love the sound, I've had people who paid lots of good money for flowmaster and the like compliment my truck on it's sound. They said they wished their truck sounded like that, also it's fun to watch them get really mad when I tell them it only cost $40 total.

 

Cherry bombs are the bomb. I run a pair an my '87 Ram 5.2. They are great and last quite a long time. R.V.

 

Go for it. I'm running an 18" glasspack on my 4.7 and it sounds great. People can't believe it's just a cheapo muffler and have to get under there to look. I left the "resinator" on to keep it rumbling but not loud.

 

Are you guy saying the cheap 20 dollar muffler at your local vendors, you replaced with your stock muffler and it acaully sounds good? Doens't it sound bad at high rpms? Isn't is really small and restrtic and lose power?

 

They are not restrictive. That's the whole deal with glasspacks (cherry bombs). It's nearly a straight through flow with just enough restriction. Just get one the same diameter as you current exhaust pipe or you will get too much restriction and get a crappy sound. As far as loss of power, removing the stock muffler was probably the best thing I did for the truck. Going by butt dyno of course, it really made it come alive and gave it a good growl but it's not so much that you get a headache going down the road. I've followed my wife in my Jeep with the top off and it sounds good on acceleration and highway speeds. It also has a strange effect when you get on it: if you have it floored passing someone, as soon as it drops from passing gear to 4th, when it shifts it gets a really loud sugre of sound for about 1/2 a second - I call it a truck fart. Scared the hell out of a guy I was passing once. I wouldn't go any smaller than 18" though or you might as well just run a straight pipe. I've had them on my Camaro's, my Avalanche, my Cherokee and now on the Dodge. I've always been happy with them and they don't break your checkbook. Like I said, it's important to keep the opening the same diameter as the pipe you put it on.

I got mine at a muffler shop. It's not the same as what you get in a parts store for $20. Mine looks like a small, 18" long barrell. Like a mini pony keg almost. The auto parts store glasspacks usually don't have the same sound.

 

Found the muffler at PepBoys for 29.99 and for something with that price i dont think it can give you to much performance, so i ordered a magnaflow instead for 89.99 with shipping. Thanks for the info. though.

 

A glass pack muffler is cheaper to make than a resonant type of muffler. Thus the savings is passed on to you. They are also rather simple in design and construction.