I have a 68 Skylark and its got a rebuilt 350-2 in it, and quite frankly its a bad ass car, but i want it louder. I know I can chop off the exhaust pipes and stuff but how else can i make it louder?  

Run 1 7/8" headers open with no collectors.  Everyone will hear you coming a mile away, INCLUDING COPS. You can run header mufflers(glass packs)to cut out some rumble and get better sound.  

A stick of dynamite?  

Loud is fun for a while, but it gets old really quick.

Here are a couple of good ways you can make your car selectively loud.

1. Flowtech Warlock mufflers (with a removable bypass plate).

2. Exhaust cutouts / dumps.

More important than "loud," though, is sound quality.  Glasspacks are too "raspy."   Small, high velocity "duals" tend to make the engine sound small.

Deeper, "bass tone" exhausts sound more authoritative and attract less unwanted attention from law enforcement.  A big, truck-type muffler has enough volume to resonate a deeper tone (look at the resonator on a Chrysler SRT-8 as an example of how to have a fairly deep, rumbling "bark" with a relatively small V8).  

Tie up a steel trashcan it's cheaper.Look into those electric cut-outs best of both worlds.   WIEDER  

Tie up a steel trashcan it's cheaper.Also look into those electric cut-outs best of both worlds.   WIEDER  

i had a really loud car... my 66 gto...   after i sold it...  it took 5 years before i could hear a vacuum leak ...   it was so loud that the pool hall across the street came over and had me turn the car around as their plate glass windows were rattling so much they through they would break... you could hear the car 3 blocks away when i got on the throttle..

1980s turbo mufflers bolted to adaptors right at the collectors..

i did have a big cam in it... m57 grind... 290dur .575 lift as i recall... oh yea   and a rat motor...  

A cam with more overlap and a 4-bbl intake in conjunction with just about any dual exhaust.  

A short stack of Marshall Amps, some bungee cords, a mic and an a little AC generator ought to do the trick . . . .  

Hack that muffler off and be a home town hero.Every one should run open headers.

 LONG LIVE CHEAP THRILLS!!!!!  

iwannaosroc77:
Hack that muffler off and be a home town hero.Every one should run open headers.

 LONG LIVE CHEAP THRILLS!!!!!

Uh yeah . . . that's what I want to hear (during the short time I'd still be able to)  . . . the "open headers"  of the neighbor's Toyota Prius or Geo Metro at three a.m. . . .

Maybe they could add a giant "fart pipe" to really amplify the buzzin' sound-o-power . . . .

It'll also be fun to share this tidbit o' CC wisdom with the judge at the hearing on the fix-it ticket:

"But your Honor, Sir.  I was just trying to be a 'hometown hero.  'Everyone should run open headers. LONG LIVE CHEAP THRILLS!' . . .

Could you speak up, your Honor?  I can't hear you . . . .

TWO HUNDRED BUCKS!"

(Nothin' cheap or thrilling about that)  

Huh? What did you say? You'll get a fix it ticket to begin with. After that all you need to do is wire your tailpipe up and your good to go.(ntil you pass out from the fumes and rear end a Geo.But when your getting taken to the hospital you'll hear the "awsome" sounding geo next to you)