Initial Boom Tube Examples and Historical Context

as we go through the rounds here this one is number one because this is the first one i ever had i bought this thing on ebay in 2014 for that car back when i had a big block and that's why it's got these these extra pipes on here because back before i knew how to work on cars um jeff let's actually put this boom tube on that car for me and it costs a lot of money a lot more than i was prepared for which kind of prompted me to learn how to work on cars myself but that's a whole different story maybe we'll tell that on the the extra channel the stapleton 42x for channel that we just started that's the place for stories like that it'll be pinned in the comments you need to check it out this thing sounded pretty good with the big block was a 502 it idled like a boat because it was boat engine and kind of the biggest point about these boom tube things or any of these configurations is just because you put one of these on your third gen camaro with a waller out 350 doesn't mean it's gonna sound like dale earnhardt's monte carlo when you turn it on it won't do that just the same way that freaking louis armstrong could play a trumpet and then hand it to me and it would sound like hammered dog you have to have a good engine going into one of these to get the right sounds out of them and that includes the headers and compression horsepower the amount of air that's going through them that all comes into play with how these things sound and they're all designed to do something different so you mean you can't put them on an accord and make it sound cool no you can't do that either like whenever this one was on the big block it sounded good sometimes yeah it did if you go back and like listen to video don't you have old videos with that in there yeah i'll show them in here there's one that's on a different account that has like a couple hundred thousand views you've probably seen it before it's that car before it looked the way it did and it has a date welding on here um 524.05 so they don't use these big fat long ones like the skinny ones anymore the current cup cars don't even have those i think they just have pipes that come right out of the headers and stick out the rockers because the next gen cars are you would have found these wide skinny ones from the early mid 90s probably mid 90s up until the end of the gen 4 cars which was 2007 when they brought in the car tomorrow but you can notice the difference between these two you can see the difference in the path the…