I'm researching what truckers look for in mufflers, and would love some advice!

Free flowing, quiet. Truck engines rarely go up to or over 2500rpm unless the operator wants them to grenade. A "high" rpm muffler is of no use to heavy trucks.

 

I just hope we dont see any canon-ball mufflers on trucks. All these foreign cars, with the canon-ball mufflers, I would never own. We looked for a used car before, and I told my wife, if you see a car you like, and it has a canon-ball muffler, dont buy it, that car has been beat on, probably burns oil, or leaks. I see people driving these cars all the time and beat the day lights out of them. They think they are in the "Too fast, and furious, movie" wrong the cars in the movie are stunt cars and have race motors. Not the 1.5 four cylinder, stock. Then watch these people beat them to death. No canon-ball mufflers on trucks, please.

 

Ahh yes, the ever popular "fart can" or "coffee can" muffler. Aren't they 'special'?

 

I just have a bad feeling these certain kind of drivers are trying to modify the trucks now. But it aint going to happen, not when there pulling loads for 89cent per mile. Yes they had a add in the newspaper, 89cent per mile. So, any repair, for get about it. Saw one guy crying about a repair costing so much. Well If he was charging the proper rate to be a O/O, he would have no problem. But give it time, they`ll all be broke, hauling cheap freight. They have to look for a way to steal something, so they can get some fuel. LOL So watch your vehicles.

 

Ideal muffler.
Low exhaust gas flow restriction.
Fair cost.
Easy quick fitment.
Good looking.
Corrosion resistant.
Non clogging.
Good sound muffler.
If you can tick all the boxes you have a world beater.

 

Can you make an exhaust system that turns the exhaust back into fuel?

Actually the new trucks have a new system in which there is an incinerator that when you push the button it heats up super hot and burns the carbon out of the pipes. It gets so hot it sometimes melts the pavement under the truck. Have you heard of this? I had it on my Kenworth T2000. It was a 08' truck.

Welcome to the forum and good luck with the inventing!

 

cheapest high flow muffler i can find, i dont care what brand it is.

 

ahhh. I thought that's what the cannon ball term meant. I call em fart tubes. Meant to give a "burly" or souped up sound to an otherwise gutless vehicle... Anyone else think they're a desperate and pathetic cry for attention?

To answer the O/P.. Quiet, freeflowing and as light on welds or other joints as possible. (to reduce chances of an exhaust leak.)

 

I think it's high time some folks offered stainless steel! On my current tractor an '07 Volvo the mufflers rotted thru underneath the support brackets, they didn't last as long as my 1st set of drive tires. The much more corrosive chemicals they are spraying on the roads would certainly justify the extra expense to get a longer life cycle with stainless.