Convince me to swap Sweet Thunder's for my bullets
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IMO dual cutouts before the X meets up... it will be just like running open headers when needed... cutouts closed all week... sat. night open those suckers up!
flow better then bullets do to say the least... thas my plans.
flow better then bullets do to say the least... thas my plans.
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Originally Posted by SOM98TA
IMO dual cutouts before the X meets up... it will be just like running open headers when needed... cutouts closed all week... sat. night open those suckers up!
flow better then bullets do to say the least... thas my plans.
flow better then bullets do to say the least... thas my plans.
My current setup (dynomax bullets) makes plenty of power and more or less makes cutouts unecessary for max power. I'm mostly going for a better, more refined tone and slightly lower volume during day to day driving while still retaining the lumpy idle, screaming WOT and unrestricted flow. Originally I wanted sweet thunder sound but: The best sound with them is supposedly with an H-pipe, and (the big deciding factor) the 2.5" core plus the baffles restricting airflow is just too much restriction for me to deal with, especially once I get further into the mods.
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Originally Posted by SOM98TA
I meant the dual cutouts with a ST set up.. I wouldnt even bother with bullets.
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Originally Posted by SOM98TA
IMO 6-9rwhp lossage from a MUCH BETTER sounding muffler is worth it to me.. gona enjoy the car more.
I might just buy the damn sweet thunders. If there is one thing I have learned and should never, ever forget it's that ls1tech majority rule is virtually always right, even on opinion based things such as exhaust sound. I thought people running 4k stalls daily were crazy and my 3500 was big. Yeah, well, I had to have it restalled to 4k.
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Originally Posted by Ru2n00n3er
If you do it I wanna hear them Nathan.
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Originally Posted by SOM98TA
why must u go to electric cutouts? 70bucks heddman 3inch cut outs.... simple and it wont break.
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Fug this, I made a decision. Sweet thunders it will be. Better sound, cheaper price, adequate flow. (for now) Then I will get cutouts to open header later, not necessarily with electric butterflies. Too many people have such awsome things to say about them. I just hope the sound will live up to all the rants, raves and extremely high reputation surrounding them. I had listened to the sound clip everyone (777 esp) links to and didn't see anything special about it, chalked it up to sound clips just not cutting it. Then I listened to some sound clips with bullets, and even in the soundclips there was a distinct difference between the two.
Plus I will then be able to say I have what most consider to be the single best sounding exhaust setup there is for an LS1. Well, maybe second, I could have an H pipe instead of the X.
Thanks guys, I can be pretty hard headed I guess and just didn't want to give up even 3 hp, but I just can't say no anymore.
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This is the one everybody runs, in 18" length, correct?
http://www.sweet-thunder.com/chamber...html#stainless
Plus I will then be able to say I have what most consider to be the single best sounding exhaust setup there is for an LS1. Well, maybe second, I could have an H pipe instead of the X.
Thanks guys, I can be pretty hard headed I guess and just didn't want to give up even 3 hp, but I just can't say no anymore.
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This is the one everybody runs, in 18" length, correct?
http://www.sweet-thunder.com/chamber...html#stainless
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You only have to please yourself tho. Forget what we all think, do what you want
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I think you're making the right decision tho. Thats pretty much what I would do in this case being my goals are similar to yours (except I want my car to be an M6...). I can live w/ a ~5hp loss if Im one of the best sounding cars on the street and @ the track.
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I think you're making the right decision tho. Thats pretty much what I would do in this case being my goals are similar to yours (except I want my car to be an M6...). I can live w/ a ~5hp loss if Im one of the best sounding cars on the street and @ the track.
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What you need to do is dyno compare both of them to see if the loss of power is a myth. Or at least see how much of a loss it really is. I can assure you they sound that much better. If they didn't then why is TSP making sweet-thunder duals now
It's because as soon as you hear them once you will want to change. I'm trying to get my friend to put them on his '02 mustang gt and see how it sounds.
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Originally Posted by 777
What you need to do is dyno compare both of them to see if the loss of power is a myth. Or at least see how much of a loss it really is. I can assure you they sound that much better. If they didn't then why is TSP making sweet-thunder duals now
It's because as soon as you hear them once you will want to change. I'm trying to get my friend to put them on his '02 mustang gt and see how it sounds.
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