Exhaust dilemma
Exhaust dilemma Well, Ive taken the plung for a big cubes stroker, and I know that If I dont want to bottleneck the combo, I will have to upgrade my exhaust system.
As my plates say (which is mostly just for the humour factor) I prefer a stock appearance and sound. Which is why I have always since Ive owned my car, left the back half of my exhaust factory. I have 1 3/4" pacesetter headers with no smog stuff on it, and a pacesetter ORY. I have this attached to the factory rear half of the exhaust with no cats. In between the ORY and the rear factory exhaust I have an electric cutout. When I want a free flowing exhaust or a loud sound, I could just flip the switch. Otherwise I could cruise around with a fairly muffled sounding exhaust.
I would really like input on what is the most free flowing exhaust system that doesnt sound like Im trying to break windows everywhere I go. I believe I may even jump up to 1 7/8" headers. I was thinking either duals or x pipe. My concerns are clearance, sound, and performance. There are alot of muffler and exhaust brands out there, and I know they arent all equal.
As my plates say (which is mostly just for the humour factor) I prefer a stock appearance and sound. Which is why I have always since Ive owned my car, left the back half of my exhaust factory. I have 1 3/4" pacesetter headers with no smog stuff on it, and a pacesetter ORY. I have this attached to the factory rear half of the exhaust with no cats. In between the ORY and the rear factory exhaust I have an electric cutout. When I want a free flowing exhaust or a loud sound, I could just flip the switch. Otherwise I could cruise around with a fairly muffled sounding exhaust.
I would really like input on what is the most free flowing exhaust system that doesnt sound like Im trying to break windows everywhere I go. I believe I may even jump up to 1 7/8" headers. I was thinking either duals or x pipe. My concerns are clearance, sound, and performance. There are alot of muffler and exhaust brands out there, and I know they arent all equal.
Ive never heard of GMMG, I will look into it, but I would prefer no cats.
Ya see, I dont want it to be extremely loud, its my summer toy and I cruise around town with it all the time, dont want to be getting pulled over for noise. I'm more go, than show/sound.
Ya see, I dont want it to be extremely loud, its my summer toy and I cruise around town with it all the time, dont want to be getting pulled over for noise. I'm more go, than show/sound.
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Hmm, it doesnt appear to be a full dual system... From what I can tell, it sounds awesome as hell. However I am looking to get the full potential from my large cube build.
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spintech has a 4 inch exhaust system that you look into, its not duals, but can flow pretty damn good because its HUGE, just make sure you'd get a decent sized y-pipe. Other than that, your only option is duals out the back with a muffler of your choice, or you can run 4 mufflers instead of 2. Do a search on here and look for Kooks 454ci LSx Trans Am that they built. They ran their 1 7/8 headers into an x-pipe and 4 kooks bullet mufflers and then brought it all the way out the back. It wasn't too loud, but it sounded mean as hell...
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Duals are loud. If you cam your car with duals, you will go deaf to say the least 
. Clearance is probably a little more than a coke can off the ground at stock ride height. I was assuming you're talking about buying TSP or something, if you're getting a custom catback done for duals over the axel then i have no clue. But dumped preaxle is not going to sound stock at all. X-pipe will flow the best however from what i've read on LS1Tech. A cutout is high flowing as well though... i don't know a catback in particular that can match the flow of a cutout or true duals. If you're going for flow and not tone cutout or duals or even 4" pipes might be a solid solution.
. Clearance is probably a little more than a coke can off the ground at stock ride height. I was assuming you're talking about buying TSP or something, if you're getting a custom catback done for duals over the axel then i have no clue. But dumped preaxle is not going to sound stock at all. X-pipe will flow the best however from what i've read on LS1Tech. A cutout is high flowing as well though... i don't know a catback in particular that can match the flow of a cutout or true duals. If you're going for flow and not tone cutout or duals or even 4" pipes might be a solid solution. LS1 Tech Stories
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I would suggest a 3.5" y pipe with a flowmaster merge with 4" outlet. Put a 4" cutout on the end of the merge, then put a 4"-3" reducer on the end of the cutout so it will mate up to the stock rear section of your exhaust.
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Ya that doesnt sound bad, It's basically a larger version of what I have now, the pacesetter y-pipe with a 3" cutout after the y-pipe mated up to the stock rear section.