custom catback...
custom catback... last month I made a custom cat-back, lighter than anything out there wich I really wanted, very free flowing, and suprisingly quiet under light throttle, no pics yet but get a couple 12" glasspacks, chop the pipe right where it'll be pointing straight back, make a slight "S" or "/" angled pipe then run the glasspacks pointing out the back, I made some 30* slashcut tips and false tips, so it looks like 4 3" tips, I made sure to make the cut so that all the noise will be just past the rear (no inside resonance), I'll get some pics up later but I think its perfect, I really liked the stock quietness but felt I was getting choked up too much, I cant stand a straight pipe on the vette but this is right in the middle, no high pitch noise, has a very low/deep sound, I made a before and after video and it sounds less high pitch at idle than the stockers...
btw, it was all spare stuff I had laying around but if you had to buy it all, would probably cost less than 100 bucks, 2 mufflers, a couple scrap peices of pipe and some tips, along w/ 2 hangars... and a days work getting all 4 tips to be perfectly level and even w/the car, wich I notice just about every corvette the tips are slightly askew... bugs the heck out of me...
btw, it was all spare stuff I had laying around but if you had to buy it all, would probably cost less than 100 bucks, 2 mufflers, a couple scrap peices of pipe and some tips, along w/ 2 hangars... and a days work getting all 4 tips to be perfectly level and even w/the car, wich I notice just about every corvette the tips are slightly askew... bugs the heck out of me...
Last edited by Assassin; Jul 17, 2006 at 04:07 AM.
I've been planning on how to make custom catback too.
I took some measurements, now I just need to find a muffler that will fit (or that I can modify to fit). Hopefully I can find a dual in/dual out muffler that will fit in the tunnel right after the cats. I may or may not remove the "H" in the pipe. Some of the mufflers I'm looking at have internal "X"s.
Then I'm going to cut off the stock mufflers and run the tailpipes straight out the back.
Like I said though, the challenge is going to be finding a muffler that fits my specs.
I took some measurements, now I just need to find a muffler that will fit (or that I can modify to fit). Hopefully I can find a dual in/dual out muffler that will fit in the tunnel right after the cats. I may or may not remove the "H" in the pipe. Some of the mufflers I'm looking at have internal "X"s.
Then I'm going to cut off the stock mufflers and run the tailpipes straight out the back.
Like I said though, the challenge is going to be finding a muffler that fits my specs.
