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Dave, the one I got from them a few years ago is perfectly quiet. I wonder if you ought to give them a call back and see if they discovered something new since you got yours. I think our engines / exhaust manifolds are very similar. If anything, my wheelbase is shorter with less pipe and would likely be the louder of the two cars.

Jim

Thanks Jim, but so many names have been mentioned here, which "them" were you referring to?

Sorry about that Dave, Kepich was who I reffered to.

Jim

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Pic's were taken back in Jan '08 and the muffler was then consigned to the scrap bin. Really only this pic and two more general ones of the muffler. I will send all three to you by email and you should be able to see them in Picasa, blow them up and move around looking at details, although resolution suffers.

And Wade says it's an original or original type muffler.

I happen to own a muffler shop, so my opinion may be biased. But I happen to know that any muffler configuration can be replicated on any vehicle. The round mufflers you are reffering to are available in hundreds of brands and lines. An "experienced" shop can reproduce a custom system that delivers the very sound your after and still look as though it just came off the detroit assembly line. I've never tried to fit an exhaust system in a driveway but I'll have to assume it would be much easier at about the same cost to have your local shop do it for you. Thus preventing the situation that something is off or a bend is at the wrong rotation. At my shop I use both prebent and stock tubes. The stock , 7ft straight sticks, and the prebent have another big difference, the materials. You can feel that the prebent is much weaker, thinner, lower quality. The stocks are thicker to handle the bender. But the guage of the steel is much thicker to give a much longer service life as well. My 15 years of experience in the same shop has confirmed this too. So I recommend having your local MIDAS , free plug, at least put your packard on a rack and take a look at it with ya. It's free and most of the time you can talk to the tech and get a feel of his experience level and see if your confident in his abilities. You can probably feel the materials and at least have a little more insight to make your decision on which is best for you and your packard. This should show a pic of the typical prebent on the bottom. standard stock on the top.

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