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Old Jul 26, 2007 | 08:09 PM
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i have a 98 z28, with pacesetter headers, x-pipe, and 2 slp loudmouth resonators..i work next door to the sherrifs, and have not been able to drive my car there in the last 3 monthes becuase of illegal exhuast (TOO LOUD)..so i want to change it just to get them to shut up and leave me alone..do i have any options as far as leaving the x-pipe on and putting exhuast that wont be too loud until i get on it?

or am i gonna have to go back to a y-pipe and do a magnaflow?
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Old Jul 26, 2007 | 08:11 PM
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move to a new house, jk. but that sucks bro.
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Old Jul 26, 2007 | 08:15 PM
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We added a small H pipe ahead of our X-Pipe. It really helped down everything down. The resonators may make it impossible to make this quit though.

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Old Jul 26, 2007 | 08:24 PM
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damn dude that looks pretty crazy...

i dont mind taking the loud mouth resonators off, but then ill be stuck with just an x-pipe with no resonators? ....im trying to find an exhaust system that will work with my x-pipe, and not be as loud as the lm resonators where until i floor the car? do these exsist? every damn website i go to sell hundreds of systems but they look like there for y-pipes
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Old Jul 27, 2007 | 01:57 AM
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Lose the LM Resonators and slap on a couple sweet thunder chambered mufflers....I am amazed at how tame they are on my brothers TD setup. He is LTs ORY, X-Pipe, Sweet Thunders...all 3"...dumped at axle.
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Old Jul 27, 2007 | 07:59 AM
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my cammed motor with magnaflow 4x9 mufflers is very tame compared to what it was with straight pipes. it really isn't much louder than alot of catbacks
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Old Jul 27, 2007 | 08:15 AM
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I would suggest trying different mufflers...from what I've heard the Magnaflow 4x9's are the 'quietest' on a TD setup.
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Old Jul 27, 2007 | 09:39 PM
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im thinking about just removing the x-pipe completely and putting an off road y pipe with a magnaflow muffler..do you guys think it will still sound good? i have long tubes (pacesetters on the car aswell) ..

it seems magnaflow is a weird company, that doesnt have different series mufflers , they just go by different measurements of mufflers..thats gonna make things tough.
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