Taking apart Stock Exhaust
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Taking apart Stock Exhaust OK, I have an 02 SS with an SLP dual / dual exhuast. I just bought the SLP Loud Mouth and have a few questions.
1. I cant get me stock exhuast off. It is held together with u-bolts. They seem to have crimped the pipes where they slip over each other. I cant seem to get them to slide apart? I really dont want to cut off the exhuast being that it is factory. I have heard heating it up or Eastwood makes a tool that pulls them apart. Any thoughts.
2. How much louder is the Loud mouth then my factory dual / dual with muffler? SLP says it is much louder and I will p/u a few extra ponies.
Please help. I have this brand new exhaust and its still in the box.
Thank you.
1. I cant get me stock exhuast off. It is held together with u-bolts. They seem to have crimped the pipes where they slip over each other. I cant seem to get them to slide apart? I really dont want to cut off the exhuast being that it is factory. I have heard heating it up or Eastwood makes a tool that pulls them apart. Any thoughts.
2. How much louder is the Loud mouth then my factory dual / dual with muffler? SLP says it is much louder and I will p/u a few extra ponies.
Please help. I have this brand new exhaust and its still in the box.
Thank you.
I'd send the LM back and keep the dual/dual. You have one of the most desired exhaust systems, and you're going to swap it out to one of the cheesiest.
Do you ever plan on putting on headers? Keep the dual/dual, the LM is going to make you hate yourself. If you want a little more volume, gut the cats or get an ORY. The dual/dual will maintain a nice refined tone even with no cats, LM will sound like rolling death (in a bad way).
If you do plan on still putting on the LM, keep the dual/dual together. You can probably sell it for some nice coin.
Do you ever plan on putting on headers? Keep the dual/dual, the LM is going to make you hate yourself. If you want a little more volume, gut the cats or get an ORY. The dual/dual will maintain a nice refined tone even with no cats, LM will sound like rolling death (in a bad way).
If you do plan on still putting on the LM, keep the dual/dual together. You can probably sell it for some nice coin.
Lol I did the same thing. Got a LM and took off the dual/dual. Still sitting in the garage incase I dislike LM with headers. Not like I can't sell it for hte same i bought it at the end of the day. Problem is I had to cut the dual/dual to get it off. Oh well it can go back together
Oh and about loudness, the dualdual obviously is quite quiet.. and its a noticeable difference to say the least. Idle was much louder, and well.. everything is louder lol. But I can't wait for headers personally. Loud, raspy, mean whatever sounds good to me.
Oh and about loudness, the dualdual obviously is quite quiet.. and its a noticeable difference to say the least. Idle was much louder, and well.. everything is louder lol. But I can't wait for headers personally. Loud, raspy, mean whatever sounds good to me.
That ought to take care of the removal problem. I cut my stock **** off, threw it in the dumpster, and never looked back. Then again, mine was just the regular Z28 exhaust, not the Dual/Dual.
Dropping the rear isn't difficult, and for a dual/dual (**** even stock looking back) I'd consider doing it as an alternative to cutting. You can disconnect the 2 shocks and panhard bar in probably 5-10 minutes. After unbolting these items, you can lower the rear and remove the passenger spring for more clearance room.
As for sound impressions, if you plan on keeping stock manifolds and never going to LTs, I feel that the Loudmouth is one of the best sounding exhausts for our cars with the stock Y/Manifolds.
However, with LTs it does have HORRIBLE machine gun rasp and sounds extremely loud and bad. If I was going to do it all over again, I'd probably keep my stock TA catback, change the tips, and put an E cutout in.
Quiet when you want to be, and loud when you want to be.
As for sound impressions, if you plan on keeping stock manifolds and never going to LTs, I feel that the Loudmouth is one of the best sounding exhausts for our cars with the stock Y/Manifolds.
However, with LTs it does have HORRIBLE machine gun rasp and sounds extremely loud and bad. If I was going to do it all over again, I'd probably keep my stock TA catback, change the tips, and put an E cutout in.
Quiet when you want to be, and loud when you want to be.
