Need new exhaust for my 1973 3.0CS

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The exhaust of my 1973 3.0CS is done! I would like to replace it with one that has a little more sound to it then the original. I saw the Coupeking one but this still isn’t exactly what I’m looking for.
Are there any other options? Replacing everything front to back isn’t a problem, nor is the price.
Can anyone help with this?
 
I have the Coupeking exhaust on one of my coupes and can say that it is beautiful and it sounds great. On my other coupe, the previous owner had removed the front muffler and center resonator and replaced the replaced the rear muffler with a small, glass pack type magnaflow muffler. The system was loud, as in Harley Davidson LOUD! Good sound for a Harley (loud pipes save lives), but not for the coupe. I had a young guy pull up to me at a traffic light one day and ask me what I had under the hood; I knew right there the exhaust was selling tickets that car could never cash. Needless to say, I installed a factory front muffler and rear muffler and the car now sounds as it should, albeit not as great as the CK system, but much better than it did. Not sure exactly what you are going for, but the CK system is hard to beat. There is a stainless system sold by W&N that I looked into, but I asked around and it seems that system was built for the 2800CS, which was a little more restrictive than the 3.0 CS system in stock form.
 
Maybe you should visit Your Friendly Neighborhood Muffler Shop, explain your wants, have the car up on the lift (if they will) and entertain their thoughts.

He thinks: "When you visit a strange planet in your atomic rocketship, and ask the locals if there is any intelligent life there, any answer is significant."

Or.... you could dig up a copy of "Scientific Design of Automotive Exhaust Systems" (or something close to that, it actually exists, no I don't have a copy) and readabit. IIRC the basics of acoustic wave transmission and reflection are not difficult concepts but bear in mind that I are engineer.
 
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