Exhuast is way too damn loud.... power loss?
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My car has custom 3" true duals with dynomax race bullets 23" long and dumped before the axle, no cats. this car is LOUD. Loud as ****... it sounds damn good, but i cant even play with it on the street without looking in my rearview mirror every 10 seconds for cops. Im thinking about getting a catless catback for it to quiet it up. My only concern though is how much power am i going to lose? my setup now is not mandrel bent, and when removed from the car, looks like complete ****. I dont even think it can flow very well by how shitty of a job the exhaust shop did making it. granted they dont have a mandrel bender. anyway... What would you guys do? What are some high flowing cat backs that arent obnoxious. I would LOVE kooks true dual setup, but 1, i dont have their headers, and 2. its $1600, and i think thats a stupid price for a damn exhaust system... so, opinions please. Thanks!
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Magnaflow is a free flowing CB, I had it on my car but it was to quite for me. So I replaced it with a corsa and now its loud as hell again. But after going to corsa I would go but to the magnaflow again, it flows good, light weight, and sounds nice with no rasp. Can't really ask for more
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imo stay with duals , just upgrade to a better made setup, i would do a custom x pipe ran out the back with some maganflow bullets,duals sound so much better than a catback, i have the tsp duals with st, by far the best setup i have had on the car, no catback even comes close to the killer sound, the only catback i would go with if i didnt have the duals is a gmmg with a magnaflow in the i pipe, also borla is nice, there both loud but sound good, magnaflow is good as well but is really quite, mag with a cutout aint a bad way to go but i would pick duals with ST over a open cutout
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Id keep the dual but......way too loud. I dunno if different muffler would make a huge difference. Suggestions on couple of muffler? 10hp isn't a big deal but im not N/A....i see ppl gain 70hp by opening a cut iout on an FI car.... I've thought about magnaflow also. id like to hear that exhaust system with a cam and blower WOT...
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look in the true dual stickey for mr.luos s setup, his was quite with a killer sound, dumped duals are very loud, running them out the back cuts down on some noise, magnaflows will tone it down a good but, look at mr.luos sound clips he has a few vids, he also had dual cutouts .
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look in the true dual stickey for mr.luos s setup, his was quite with a killer sound, dumped duals are very loud, running them out the back cuts down on some noise, magnaflows will tone it down a good but, look at mr.luos sound clips he has a few vids, he also had dual cutouts .
heres a video of my car, just testing out my gopro, its nothing fancy as far as the video, but hears how loud my exhaust is...
http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=1836374666851
i want to run my true duals out the back with different mufflers, but id have to have them mandrel bent over the axle. i know some people go under the axle but i think it looks tacky..... i wish i could find a mandrel bender near me...
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I'm not sure why but Bassani exhaust isn't that popular on here. Its a 2.5" dual system that is stainless steel. It also goes over the axle and out the back. If you look hard enough you can find it for $850 shipped. Half the price of kooks system. The only down side is it setup to bolt up to stock cats, so you have to cut the tube and put a 3" to 2.5" reducer.
I got this system mounted up with some kooks 1 7/8" headers, and it sounds great. It isn't rasp, isn't too loud, and has a very low and mean sound to it. Couldn't ask for more. Plus it goes from headers all the way back over the axle with tips. By the time you buy a y pipe and exhaust system you already spent more money.
I got this system mounted up with some kooks 1 7/8" headers, and it sounds great. It isn't rasp, isn't too loud, and has a very low and mean sound to it. Couldn't ask for more. Plus it goes from headers all the way back over the axle with tips. By the time you buy a y pipe and exhaust system you already spent more money.
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I'm not sure why but Bassani exhaust isn't that popular on here. Its a 2.5" dual system that is stainless steel. It also goes over the axle and out the back. If you look hard enough you can find it for $850 shipped. Half the price of kooks system. The only down side is it setup to bolt up to stock cats, so you have to cut the tube and put a 3" to 2.5" reducer.
I got this system mounted up with some kooks 1 7/8" headers, and it sounds great. It isn't rasp, isn't too loud, and has a very low and mean sound to it. Couldn't ask for more. Plus it goes from headers all the way back over the axle with tips. By the time you buy a y pipe and exhaust system you already spent more money.
I got this system mounted up with some kooks 1 7/8" headers, and it sounds great. It isn't rasp, isn't too loud, and has a very low and mean sound to it. Couldn't ask for more. Plus it goes from headers all the way back over the axle with tips. By the time you buy a y pipe and exhaust system you already spent more money.