Cutout after catted y-pipe

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Aug 18, 2009 | 02:51 PM

dandrea86

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Cutout after catted y-pipe

I have american racing Lts-catted y pipe-borla adjustble catback. I want to keep my cats b/c I feel it cleans up the rasp created by the y-pipe merge. Do you guys think I will notice a good increase in sound and power if i install a cutout on the (I) pipe right after the y pipe merge? Im debating on getting a cutout but am unsure on if its worth the extra coin.

Aug 18, 2009 | 04:58 PM

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do you have any plates in your borla, if not it is basically straight pipes anyways.

Aug 18, 2009 | 08:51 PM

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No I dont have any plates in the system. I just dynoed my car and it put down 365hp/365tq. Car has full bolt-ons. I deff want to keep cats but am tryin to squeeze every little bit out of my combination.

Aug 18, 2009 | 09:40 PM

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I've never heard a borla exhaust before, but i'm sure it'll be louder with the cutout. A cutout is only 30 dollars, a bit more with the motor if you want that. It'll be worth more sound wise than hp wise i'm sure

Aug 18, 2009 | 09:46 PM

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thats great to hear lol i have the same headers and everything. im about to put a reverse split cam in and i was thinking about doing dual cutouts right before the cats to help the cam alot.

Aug 18, 2009 | 11:02 PM

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thats great to hear lol i have the same headers and everything. im about to put a reverse split cam in and i was thinking about doing dual cutouts right before the cats to help the cam alot.

Yea I was pretty impressed with numbers.. thats untuned also. I feel doing dual cutouts before cats wouldnt be worth it tho. Of course you prob will gain a few ponies but you will loose some tq because of no back pressure. Combine that with the price of 2 cutouts and it doesnt sound 2 appetizing to me.