Chamber design (mufflers). I'm stuck,

[faytmorgan]

my lonesome have been working on a set of mufflers that don't sound like fecal matter. I am having a difficult time finding just the mufflers (race mufflers). I DO NOT want an entire exhaust system. I do have the capability of fabing up mufflers, I have custom made equal length headers to an x pipe thus far. I DO NOT want the mufflers to have those two little connections keeping them together. I will be making this a side exit.

The motor is a carbed 5.5 lt small journal sbc. Should be able to make power to 7800 or so rpm.

I am looking for the highest frequency/note/tone/pitch I can get. I very much enjoy the higher, crisper, cleaner sound the euroapean v8 makes. I hate with a passion the rumble of the harley/dumptruck American v8. I have heard flowmasters on these cars. I don't know if it was the particular flowmaster series or what. But that m3 was a dumptruck. I am trying to avoid that.

Sounds like a chevy small block doing a dyno pull to me...
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amazing high frequency sound
htt p://w ww.youtube.co m/watch?v=SbT0IqFIfnc]iPE Innotech E92 M3 Evolution Valvetronic Exhaust System F1 Sound - YouTub

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Here is a cutaway of a corsa muffler.

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I am rather sure that the chambers in the muffler can be designed as such to reflect frequencies to cancel out the unwanted frequencies. I just can't find the math anywhere to determine the dimensions of the chambers.

I am working with 17.9 inch long primary tubes that are 1 and 5/8 in diameter, they go into a 2.5 inch collector, that then goes into a 3 inch x pipe, that will then go directly to the side exit mufflers. I am keeping it as short as possible to help retain the sound I am after.

This is what I am avoiding.
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Same motor different car different mufflers...
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So does anyone know how to design the muffler to achieve this? Or designing a resonator to do this? Or simply the chambers inside the muffler to do this?

I am so stuck. Also I don't think a helmholts resonator of any kind will do the trick. that would only cancel out the freq. I think this is more like a musical instrument where the sound entering is not going to be the sound at the bell of the horn coming out.

 

[Ranger Mike]

do you have the engine running? About the only way to " tune " the exhasut to a particular freq. is to fabricate a muffler/resonator that can be adjustable length and experiment. By shortening or lengthening th baffle arrangment to housing length you should be able to find the note you want.