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Posted by Skinny Boi Racing (Member # 2944) on :

My friend told me you can do this and i just wanted to know if anyone has done is your heard a car with it. HE said to leave the stock H on your car and just run straight pipe all the way back like a catback without mufflers?

does it sound good?
thanks

Posted by 89dropteezyLX (Member # 2385) on :

ive done it before but it sounds nasty but it does have a deep tone to it but i wouldnt reccomend it

Posted by Chosen1 (Member # 1906) on :

do it so we can make even more fun of you.

Posted by Skinny Boi Racing (Member # 2944) on :

Yea i figured it didnt sound koo...i told him, but he said he still wants to try it so hes gonna take off his spintech which is way dumb but its his car...

Posted by 95Vert (Member # 4183) on :

I think the best way to do this, is replace the mufflers with Magnaflow ones. Magnas have a straight through pipe, resulting with approx. 15hp gains and a deeper exhaust sound. Then again, any exhaust modification from OEM is no longer street legal in California.

Posted by 66 AC COBRA (Member # 904) on :

quote:
Originally posted by 95Vert:
Then again, any exhaust modification from OEM is no longer street legal in California.

smog referees wont even punish u for having aftermarket mufflers

Posted by Chosen1 (Member # 1906) on :

if volume is what he wants, then get the biggest bullet mufflers you can find, and use turndowns.

Posted by DropTopFox (Member # 1689) on :

quote:
Originally posted by 95Vert:
I think the best way to do this, is replace the mufflers with Magnaflow ones. Magnas have a straight through pipe, resulting with approx. 15hp gains and a deeper exhaust sound.

DAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAMN where can I get some of those. Do you have dyno graphs for these? God I never knew a muffler good give me 15 horses to the wheels [Roll Eyes]

Posted by spegull03 (Member # 2842) on :

quote:
Originally posted by Chosen1:
do it so we can make even more fun of you.

Posted by Skinny Boi Racing (Member # 2944) on :

Thanks to all that posted we worked on his car last night and it offically sounds like shiet!!!, but he likes it so lol

[Big Grin]

Posted by 1SLOWLX (Member # 558) on :

race bullets are straight through also [Big Grin]

Posted by street_illegal_stang (Member # 1554) on :

i had a friend who ran straight pipes after the stock cats..but he had the tail pipes to the back.
it sounded alright for stock and was'nt loud.
until about 2400rpm it gets loud not to metion anoying driving on the freeway after a while
magnaflows [Roll Eyes]

its up to 15 hp
of course not on are cars.
we might see 3-4hp at the flywheel [Big Grin]

Posted by RO2USH (Member # 2002) on :

last year after getting my car back from shop, I ran straight pipes...louder than hell, kinda sounded ok, but I think I still have hearing damage from it

Posted by RagTop (Member # 4185) on :

I have a cutout on my Camaro just ahead of the muffler. I drive with it open sometimes (like now) but, with the cats ahead of it, it really isn't that much louder than my Flowmaster. Somewhat deeper though. Now, you can't hear yourself think with the cutouts open on either of the Mustangs, but they are right behind the collecters on both cars and it's like running open headers. The cam lope comes through really clearly. The convertible produces some really excellent sounds running unplugged at Sacramento.

Posted by Black94 5.0 (Member # 655) on :

I test drove a customers car at on old job after we serviced it...It was a 95GT, so I was checking it out...He had some nice and costly mods on it, but for some reason had a stock H-pipe and a "no muffler/straight pipe" cat back....

All I could think of when I got on it was how good my 94 GT sounded and how much the customers car sounded like the GENERAL LEE!!!!!!...For all the Dukes of Hazzard fans, they ran Glass packs on most of the 69 Chargers.... [Wink]

Posted by shiftylx (Member # 2670) on :

for my first 'mod' on my coupe back in 96, i bought the cut-outs and installed them after my cats. it sounded good to a kid in high school, but after i started really learning about mustangs, i put an actual exhaust on. now when i hear a mustang with cut-outs, it just annoy's me.

Posted by Gear Head (Member # 779) on :

That's how I get my car smogged. Stock four cat h-pipe with no mufflers.

Afterwards it back to the off road x and one chamber mufflers.

Posted by Fast472Mach1 (Member # 2559) on :

quote:
Originally posted by 95Vert:
any exhaust modification from OEM is no longer street legal in California.

Thats excactly what the CHP pig told me the other night. Since he told me stock or OEM replacement I wonder if I should roll up with glasspacks instead of Flowmasters?

Posted by Wolf (Member # 1723) on :

quote:
Originally posted by 95Vert:
Then again, any exhaust modification from OEM is no longer street legal in California.

Any exhaust modification after the cats is 100% legal in CA, as long as the noise level is under 95dB when the dB meter is placed 20" from the exhaust tip, and the engine speed is at 50% of redline.

Posted by Wolf (Member # 1723) on :

quote:
Originally posted by Fast472Mach1:

quote:
Originally posted by 95Vert:
any exhaust modification from OEM is no longer street legal in California.
Thats excactly what the CHP pig told me the other night.

Tell him to read the CHP bulletins more closely.

CHP Information bulletin #98-100

http://www.enjoythedrive.com/content/?id=8135

Posted by BlueLightning302 (Member # 3974) on :

you tell him that and youll probably end up with bigger problems.

Posted by Wolf (Member # 1723) on :

quote:
Originally posted by BlueLightning302:
you tell him that and youll probably end up with bigger problems.

What's he gonna do? The law is the law. If he says that any exhaust mods are illegal, he's flat out wrong.

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