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Old Oct 21, 2003 | 10:33 AM
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Well for a couple of days i have been thinking about doing the loudmouth exhaust with no Cats...now my decision is to do the B&B Tri-Fo with no Cats or with Cats; im not even sure..how do you guys think this will sound and look?
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Old Oct 21, 2003 | 02:40 PM
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What do you think of rasp? Without cats, you WILL have rasp. A LOT with the loudmouth and less with the B&B. I also think the B&B is too $$$. Did you ever consider the Loudmouth with high-flow cats? I think that would sound the best next to true duals myself
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Old Oct 21, 2003 | 03:16 PM
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Why's he gonna have rasp without cats??
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Old Oct 21, 2003 | 03:26 PM
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I'm running a LoudMouth without cats off QTP headers right now, and talk about rasp! Cats do a lot to quiet the exhaust. There is a very loud resonant frequency at about every 500 rpm starting at 1500 rpm, then 2000, then 2500 etc. At each of these rpms, I can hear the poping of my exhaust echo of trees, buildings, people, you name it!!
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Old Oct 21, 2003 | 04:48 PM
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Do you plan on getting headers? If so you could wait until then to remove the cats. Rasp is almost unavoidable on our cars I think once those cats are gone.
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Old Oct 21, 2003 | 07:55 PM
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Why's he gonna have rasp without cats??
Because cats are the only way to kill rasp (not just reduce it, as some mufflers may do) on a Y-pipe equipped car. For the most part if you have an uncatted Y-pipe you will have rasp. you need working cats or true duals to try and kill it. The loudmouth is a fairly crude sound, not as bad as those annoying raspy pickups, but not exactly clean and crisp for sure. I ahd the loudmouth for almost two years on an otherwise stock exhuast and loved it by my true duals are 10X better sounding.
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