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Aug 18, 2004 | 12:43 PM

stangkillerWs6

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i just bought borla exhaust with pacesetter lts and took the cats off my car im deciding on whether i should put a y pipe on or and x pipe which one will make my car louder

Aug 18, 2004 | 12:51 PM

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i was told y pipe louder x pipe raspier but dont qoute me on it heard it from the grape vine. nice name by the way.

Aug 18, 2004 | 06:28 PM

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If you have borla, you will have to take off the muffler system, and x pipe will have much much less rasp than a y pipe and no cats! You will have to take off the muffler system because you will have true duals and have to get new muffers. Good luck

Aug 18, 2004 | 06:28 PM

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Well, you can't use the Borla if you go with an x-pipe setup. blubyeu2000 has it backwards. It's x-pipe is louder (and deeper) with no rasp, and y-pipe with borla is

n: going to be a bit raspy if you don't have any cats

Aug 18, 2004 | 07:57 PM

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The borla with no plate will probably be the loudest, but won't sound very good. The x-pipe setup, like TSP's, will be almost as loud with no rasp and sound better. IMO.

Aug 18, 2004 | 08:19 PM

Z-286speed

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I have the TSP setup myself, and love it. There is no rasp and the sound is great!

Aug 18, 2004 | 08:36 PM

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x pipe all the Y

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Aug 18, 2004 | 09:11 PM

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do you think it would be a big enough difference in rasp and sound if you had gmmg to go get a place to fab the xpipe in with the gmmg

Aug 18, 2004 | 11:18 PM

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Well, all they use is a chamber muffer. You could do it yourself if you really wanted too. I have not heard a car with an x pipe and two chamber GMMG style mufflers on it. All that borla is, is a damn cutout IMO.

Aug 18, 2004 | 11:24 PM

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Borla Catback needs a Y-pipe aplication...also borla is loud and annoying without cats IMO really raspy....jsut like LM

Aug 18, 2004 | 11:39 PM

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You should seriously consider changing to a chamber style muffler like the sweet-thunders. I have them on my TSP setup and they sound GREAT! These things simply roar. Much better than the bullets I had before and less drone. They're pretty inexpensive too.

Aug 19, 2004 | 09:52 AM

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An X-pipe will not work with any of the standard catbacks. In order to use an X-pipe you need to build a completely custom exhaust. TSP, Speed Inc., Kooks, and a couple of others have developed prefit systems in order to put true duals on our cars. The X-pipe does an excellent job of using the exhaust pulses to pull out the exhaust (I am heaving mental difficulties today), and reducing rasp. Volume will be a function of muffler choice.