Dual Cutouts in y pipe? Thoughts?
Dual Cutouts in y pipe? Thoughts? So i recently put on a SLP dual dual from a Loudmouth 2 and i am defnitely missing the sound. Dual dual sounds great at WOT but crusing around is pretty quiet. I have the chance to buy 2 2.5 inch cutouts which would fit into my y pipe as i have BBK which is 2.5. My question is:
How will it sound?
Is there a good place to mount them so i wont loose alot of clearance?
Is it worth it over doing just a single cutout in the I pipe?
Thanks, Brandon
How will it sound?
Is there a good place to mount them so i wont loose alot of clearance?
Is it worth it over doing just a single cutout in the I pipe?
Thanks, Brandon
It will sound like crap, add weight, and be a pain in the ****.
That said, I have dual exhaust with dual cutouts and the car is a little faster with them open. But it is ungodly loud and sounds like garbage so using them anywhere but the track is pointless.
That said, I have dual exhaust with dual cutouts and the car is a little faster with them open. But it is ungodly loud and sounds like garbage so using them anywhere but the track is pointless.
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I have the single cutout in the I pipe. I've heard the dual cutouts in the Y pipe and like said above it sounds cheap and bad unless you have a cam where it's just really loud, hence the whole point of cutouts
My 1998 z28 had dual cutouts on it...it was a 347ci h/c/I setup with nitrous. TREX V2 cam...car picked up 21 rwhp on back to back n/a pulls over a magnaflow catback with no change in tune. Others wont see that type of gain though b/c their setup may not be as restricted as mine was. If youre wanting to run electric openers, right after tge headers is a bad idea...trust me. I couldnt keep them working for very long due to the heat and how little room thrre is for them in that location. They will take a beating.
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Thanks guys i decided against the idea. I will most likely be picking up a standard 3inch cutout and stainless steel y pipe from you all in the up coming weeks.
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i have dual 3'' electric cutouts just after the end of longtubes...seems expensive but its well worth it just hitting a switch to go from a badass muscle sound to wtf open header bbc sound...if i did it again id get the mopre expensive ones cause any that just "butterfly'' to open/close like a throttle body are going to leak and that sound does get annoying
I experimented with cutouts off the headers and it sounded terrible. Ended up going with one in the intermediate pipe, added a turn down on the valve to reduce rasp and it just what I was looking for. He's a sound clip.....nothing at idle in this video, but you get the general idea....little rasp or drone:
i had dual cutouts on my x pipe, had a cam so it sounded cool, like a race car almost, but it smelled terrible, had terrible ground clearance and everytime you open them just be ready to drop the $100 for new O2 sensors. so when i fixed an exhaust leak in my X ans swapped it for an H i had them removed, couldnt be happier.
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i had dual cutouts on my x pipe, had a cam so it sounded cool, like a race car almost, but it smelled terrible, had terrible ground clearance and everytime you open them just be ready to drop the $100 for new O2 sensors. so when i fixed an exhaust leak in my X ans swapped it for an H i had them removed, couldnt be happier.