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New GTO owner here. Traded in my high mileage Lightning for a black 06 GTO. 66k miles. auto. AEM intake, and i believe the catback is still stock, although it sounds fairly loud. I love this thing. The interior is amazing and the power is linear, smooth, and strong.
I have a newb question. The stock exhaust, as far as I have read, flows extremely well. Has anyone cut off the mufflers attached to the tips, or swapped the mid-muffler? I want it louder. The car will not be modified any further as I have a 3 year warranty on it. I bought the car to be a nice, comfortable, and fast DD.
I have a newb question. The stock exhaust, as far as I have read, flows extremely well. Has anyone cut off the mufflers attached to the tips, or swapped the mid-muffler? I want it louder. The car will not be modified any further as I have a 3 year warranty on it. I bought the car to be a nice, comfortable, and fast DD.
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Nice DD. You have a lot of choices for exhausts and everyone has a different opinion on what's better. Flowmaster, Magnaflow, Borla, GMMG are the most popular off the top of my head. GMMG would be the loudest and Magnaflow the quietest.
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As far as the catback goes, I want to keep the stock tips. I tried searching youtube. Would a 2.5 inch magnaflow x pipe fit where the suitcase muffler is underneath? Or am I better off cutting off the stock muffs/res's going into the tips? Or should I just replace the stock muffs with spintechs?
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I actually was in the same boat as you but i took the leap today and put 2 magnaflow resonators in today im happy with that now im wondering if i should put the mufflex x pipe in on the magnaflow xpipe
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+2 on the spintech.. hands down best sound.. i currently have straight pipe but am looking at getting the spintech axle back. As for the tips the borla looks sick because they are the only ones to offer the 5'' tips (i think). Looks amazing
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yea, the car will remain basically stock, and pfyc has the 2 spintech mufflers for 149.95, so I think I'll go that route. I also want to get the center gauge pod and add an Oil PSI gauge and a Volt Gauge. For the Oil, should I go mechanical or electrical?
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Good luck with the new car. I have an 05 black with auto and it gets about 15 m.p.g. combined check yours to see what it gets. There is a guy in stone park that hooks up an ipod outlet into your stock stereo for cheap and while you wait. I will try to find his info for you. I willl probably see you around since i live nw side of chicago
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^^ you beam boauhman (or however is user id is spelled). That's something I need to get done too. I'm way north though - in Grayslake. Maybe I'll be heading there in a couple weeks when I get the car out.
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Good luck with the new car. I have an 05 black with auto and it gets about 15 m.p.g. combined check yours to see what it gets. There is a guy in stone park that hooks up an ipod outlet into your stock stereo for cheap and while you wait. I will try to find his info for you. I willl probably see you around since i live nw side of chicago
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Thanks! Are there any x pipes or h pipes available for the stock exhaust besides stolen fox? I'm already part of enough boards, I don't feel like signing up for another one to hunt him down.
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SF has been gone for a long time...you "might" find him on the G8 boards, that is the last I heard of him. Any shop can fab you a H-Pipe...don't go X-Pipe, X is far too raspy sounding, H has that nice deep musclecar tone to it.
Bohnman (resides on LS1GTO.com) does tons of mods...cluster light changing, AUX input on stock radio, lighted GTO door sill, etc. etc.....very good guy to deal with.
I do encourage you to join LS1GTO.com....it is more vehicle specific than Tech...find alot more info on GTO's over there.
I do encourage you to join LS1GTO.com....it is more vehicle specific than Tech...find alot more info on GTO's over there.
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congrats on the buy. im runnung flowmaster 1 chambers where the resonators used to be and dumps right off the flows. im sure you wouldnt want this on a daily driver though. for the money spintech or flowmaster axle back kits would probly sound the loudest.