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Nov 12, 2005 | 02:13 PM

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Stumped on what to do for exhaust....

Hello. I am going to be starting my bolt ons here soon. I plan on finishing exhaust along with trans and what not too. My question..... I have borla catback right now.... im getting Pacesetter LTs. Now....i was wanting to swap out the borla and get a TD set up. However with me being lowered, i will have trouble with duals. I dont have the money to get them fabbed to the bumper and really want to keep my tips and not much interior rattle/drone. However i know Borla sounds horrible with LTs and no cats. I could get LTs, ORY, keep my borla and get an elec cutout..... Any other suggestions besides duals? Thanks

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Nov 12, 2005 | 02:25 PM

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you could always just put a resinator in there before the muffler that would help with the noise buying a all new catback is expensive

Nov 12, 2005 | 02:25 PM

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Yes you could run into trouble with the duals on a lowered car. Borla and LT's and ORY is going to rasp like mad. You may want to just sell the borla and get a magnaflow/hooker to keep the rasp down. Then throw on an electric cutout for the loudness factor.

Nov 12, 2005 | 02:41 PM

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i've seen tsp true duals fabbed to go under the axle..and he still had some room.

Nov 12, 2005 | 02:47 PM

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haha "some" room, lol. Well this is my daily driver and i dont want to be scrapping everywhere. Im sort of ruling duals out as of now..... anyway i can jsut change the muffler in my borla catback or any other ideas?

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Nov 12, 2005 | 03:31 PM

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My magnaflow sounded mean as hell when the car had headers/bolt on's only.

Nov 12, 2005 | 03:37 PM

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My magnaflow sounded mean as hell when the car had headers/bolt on's only.

Yeah it does good...I think mine is quite as hell though, even with an ORY. I have the stock manifolds/cats on right now cause I needed to pass emissions and its not that much louder than when I had the ORY and LT's

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Nov 12, 2005 | 04:39 PM

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Keep the Borla! ALL catbacks I've heard rasp some with LT's/no cats. I got Macs w/no cats and a Borla. Screams like hell pened up and fully closed its almost as quiet as stock. Doesn't rasp closed up though. 4 catbacks in one!

Nov 12, 2005 | 05:13 PM

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Great thing about borla is that it has a cutout built in. Throw a bullet or spiral flow in the i pipe and call it good. With the cutout open it would sound nice and loud.

My car is lowered about 1 1/2 inches and I've had 3" duals with very minimal clearance issues. It all depend who installs them or where you get them from.

Good luck with this i've had way too many setups and still can't make up my mind

Nov 12, 2005 | 06:42 PM

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I run hooker LT's, ory, and the big borla cat back w/ the adjustable cutout open, I get plenty of props on the sound, nice idle, screams when gettin on it, not like duals, but the borla is to nice to get rid off right now.

Nov 12, 2005 | 09:57 PM

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So your thinking i should keep my borla, get some LTs and ORY and an elec cut out for it and be done? Thanks

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Nov 12, 2005 | 10:01 PM

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My buddy had LTs with ORY and a borla and I personally think it sounded pretty bad ***. I'm definatly a fan of a nice sounding but loud exhaust and it sounded nice.

Nov 12, 2005 | 10:20 PM

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sweet. Thats what i like to hear! Maybe ill jsut keep it and get the cutout!

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Nov 12, 2005 | 11:14 PM

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Aren't you planning on getting a turbo? If so, then why are you even spending money on LTs? Just a thought...

Nov 12, 2005 | 11:40 PM

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I think he's planning on a STS kit in which LTs wouldn't be a problem but obiviously a cut-out would be. I plan on turbo with an STS in the future but since my bidget is limited I plan full bolt-ons with a cam until I can afford it so I have some power. I'd say go for it and keep you borla, if you don't like it then maybe you can find someone to trade you down the road.

Nov 13, 2005 | 08:00 AM

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Yea, well i am planning on going turbo down the road. However i do not want to lack power now...When the time comes to go turbo, im going to just take my headers off and sell them

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