What Airbur says is correct because just before he bought his VT's, my VT"s had to come off... good warranty as I'd had them a year and they gave me full credit for them.
On my stock 351W they were great. Very quiet at idle with a nice throaty sound without drone upon acceleration. I built the 2 1/2" mandrel exhaust in anticipation of my strrroker I was building....
SO the 418 strrroker goes in and the dang valves rattle at idle... and I mean RATTLE... you could hear them from 50 ft-seriously. I called customer service, talked to a design engineer and he said yes they will ALWAYS rattle on "free-flowing" engines with good heads and a larger cam unless you have and "H" or "X" pipe. Well I have no room for one...none so I'm out of luck and went to MagnaFlo's instead which are OBNOXIOUSLY LOUD.... Well, I'm running 205CNC machined Trick Flow heads and a roller cam with .588" lift at .050" lift. On my 250K mile 351W I built back in '86 they were perfect... on the strrroker the VT's I'll bet were 2-3 times louder than on my 351W... really flowed air but were loud.
My Magnaflows really sound like open headers at full throttle...so loud that I can't really hammer the pedal anywhere when driving unless I'm in the hills. They are obnoxious////