Flugger’s mufflers development (2)
As Ray Flugger, founder of Flowmaster mufflers, dwell on new designs for the track, his basic design has not yet been finalized. In order to perfect the engineering, Flugger used shoe leathers and worked with racers at drag strips and racetracks all over the country. It wasn’t long that he developed the balancing chamber, the Power Chamber. He was alos make notable contributions to exhaust engineering like header length and configuration for several major race teams.
Flugger continued to developed his ideas and did more dyno testing, worked on velocity improvements inside the muffler and really understand the operation of the muffler as it develop peak torque and velocity.
To prove the performance boost his muffler design is capable of, Flugger tested on circle track cars, drag racers and at Sebring with Jack Roush. He visited these locations and offered his mufflers along with developing the engineering together with various racing teams. His muffler would be fitted with a handle from a suitcase and later became known as Flugger’s Suitcase Mufflers.
Flugger’s Suitcase Mufflers proved to be great engineering as more racers felt the edge it gave them and helped them comply with sound regulations imposed on many small circle tracks across the country.
Until today, many racing victories are attributed to the edge that Flugger’s chambered mufflers gave.
In celebration of the success, Ray Flugger made a limited special stainless Signature Edition,Classic Two-Chamber Muffler. Only 1,000 units were made and each of these was personally etch-autographed, and numbered by Flugger.
Source: flowmastermufflers.com

