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Old Mar 18, 2016 | 01:47 AM
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Originally Posted by z28SSilvest
I think you are right. Oh well. I love the way it sounds now. I had a cutout in the I pipe before this setup and it would make my ears ring. Wondering how much power I'm robbing myself of now
Just guessing, but if you made it 4" like I did, I would think you would make about the same that I did with the cutout open. 14rwhp, 15 rwtq. Would put you really close if not at the 500 mark.
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Old Mar 18, 2016 | 02:03 AM
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Does yours rattle at all while closed? I've heard about some 4" cutouts not closing all the way. One thing I like about having a full exhaust is the torque feels like it came back a bit. With the cutout I didn't have much of a SOTP feel as much as top end.
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Old Mar 18, 2016 | 09:13 AM
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Mine never used to rattle.

One day driving I opened the cutout and let go of the switch once it opened and continued on my way. About a min later I looked down to grab my iPod and noticed that the damn switch stuck open the entire time. It flutters open after a few mins now. I fixed that with putting a thin equal thickness film layer of red high temp TV where the butterfly rests on the housing and that fixes it for about a year.
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Old Mar 18, 2016 | 01:16 PM
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I never had anything but problems out of my 4" QTP. Even sent it in to get rebuilt by them. Constantly rattling apart. Junk. I pulled it off and just have a plate over it now. Got some bolts welded to it and some wing nuts to hold it on. Easy peasy now.
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