Want a new exhaust
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Want a new exhaust
Hey guys, my names Brent...I have a 2001 trans am 6-speed...a while back, I cut off the exhaust, gutted the cats, and put on some flowmaster single-chambers, car ran like crap and it was loud so I constanlty got pulled over by the police...Now, I put back on the stock exhaust but the cats are still gutted. My car runs very good, but it's incredibly quiet! I'm looking around for a new exhaust. I'm looking for something that's going to be quiet but perform well. I would like it to be quiet while normal driving but loud when I get on it (WOT) if there's an exhaust like that. I can buy new cats if you all think it's necesarry to keep it reltively quiet. (high-flow or stock?). Any suggestions will help! Thanks in advance.
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Magnaflow is what I would go with. I had to switch form Magnaflow to Spintech because I was tired of my truck being quiet. I loved the spintech and thats whats goin on my car soon.
Magnaflow is rather mellow at idle but when u give it gas you know its there (14x9 I believe it was)
Magnaflow is rather mellow at idle but when u give it gas you know its there (14x9 I believe it was)
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So for true duals, I would need an x-pipe I assume? And do you think I should get some high-flow cats, or would it be pretty quiet without them if I ran it all the way back?
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If you are a true dual guy than I would go that route. It looks like a lot of people have worked around any clearance problems.
Another option is the GMMG exhaust. With long-tubes and cats, it is relatively 'quiet' with stock internals. Just a nice mellow sound..of course at WOT the decibels jump..but not at an ear-breaking level.
As you add Heads/Cam the rumble sound at idle and cruise has a nice mellow tone.
Overall, my opinion along with others is very subjective. Only you can decide what you like. People (including myself) generally like and defend whatever set-up they currently have.
Whatever set-up you choose, you might consider some high-flow cats. That seems to be trick to mitigating the sound level. It still sounds nice, and you can generally avoid the attention from law enforcement. I have been running my set-up over 5 years and never have been pulled over for any noise violation.
Just giving you another option. Good luck in whatever set-up you choose!
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Another option is the GMMG exhaust. With long-tubes and cats, it is relatively 'quiet' with stock internals. Just a nice mellow sound..of course at WOT the decibels jump..but not at an ear-breaking level.
As you add Heads/Cam the rumble sound at idle and cruise has a nice mellow tone.
Overall, my opinion along with others is very subjective. Only you can decide what you like. People (including myself) generally like and defend whatever set-up they currently have.
Whatever set-up you choose, you might consider some high-flow cats. That seems to be trick to mitigating the sound level. It still sounds nice, and you can generally avoid the attention from law enforcement. I have been running my set-up over 5 years and never have been pulled over for any noise violation.
Just giving you another option. Good luck in whatever set-up you choose!
..WeathermanShawn..
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Hey guys, I really appreciate the input! Being that my car is totally stock (except a custom tune from a friend) would catalytic converters even make a difference in how my car runs? Or just in how it sounds? Because when I gutted them, I couldn't tell much difference in how it ran, good OR bad.
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Cats won't make that big of a difference on a stock car power wise. As for mufflers, I have a Hooker Aerochamber, its quiet just cruising but gets loud at WOT. I love the sound. A friend of mine had Magnaflows on a stock f body and it sounded kinda pissy when it wasn't at WOT.
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Cats won't make that big of a difference on a stock car power wise. As for mufflers, I have a Hooker Aerochamber, its quiet just cruising but gets loud at WOT. I love the sound. A friend of mine had Magnaflows on a stock f body and it sounded kinda pissy when it wasn't at WOT.
My hooker is "quiet" at part throttle and screams at WOT. Good price and one of the best flowing.
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Hell when I had no mufflers at all, just cats, it sounded good, not loud, but deep tone...I've been thinking about replacing my gutted cats with either new high-flows, or stock ones from a junk-yard, and putting a cut-out after the y-pipe before the rear axle...I would imagine it would sound about the same as it did when I just had cats and no mufflers. Just been afraid that my car would lose power.
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There's a sound clip of my old setup. It was PaceSetter LT's, Off-road Y-pipe, and a Magnaflow catback.
As you can tell, it's got a mellow idle, and throaty (first rev is about to 2,200-2,500) at lower RPMs, then screams at higher RPMs (second rev is about 5,000)
Hooker is also another catback that is comparable to the tone and sound of Magnaflow.
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Hell when I had no mufflers at all, just cats, it sounded good, not loud, but deep tone...I've been thinking about replacing my gutted cats with either new high-flows, or stock ones from a junk-yard, and putting a cut-out after the y-pipe before the rear axle...I would imagine it would sound about the same as it did when I just had cats and no mufflers. Just been afraid that my car would lose power.
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here's mine: longtubes, no cats, magnaflow:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fGsuOG-lXZ4
it's very mild just cruising even with longtubes. WOT though it's uhhh..."aggressive" hehe
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fGsuOG-lXZ4
it's very mild just cruising even with longtubes. WOT though it's uhhh..."aggressive" hehe
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here's mine: longtubes, no cats, magnaflow:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fGsuOG-lXZ4
it's very mild just cruising even with longtubes. WOT though it's uhhh..."aggressive" hehe
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fGsuOG-lXZ4
it's very mild just cruising even with longtubes. WOT though it's uhhh..."aggressive" hehe
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Get a cutout. I have a DHM electric one. I love it, I can be loud thru the cutout or quite thru the flowmaster catback. I eventually want to get a new catback, flowmaster sucks, its rusting already. I dont even close mine unless I come home late.
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