does the stock 95 exhaust/muffler use a clamp by the muffler itself?
09-07-2009, 09:24 PM
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does the stock 95 exhaust/muffler use a clamp by the muffler itself? i always thought my exhaust was bone stock right down to the muffler but someone was looking under there tonight and noticed that there is a clamp right by the muffler. is that factory? i think the exhaust repositioned a few years ago because it was leaking up by the manifolds but i don't think they did anything with the rear. this is a pic i took from last fall before putting the car away. does that look like a stock GM muffler?
09-08-2009, 04:12 PM
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I guess i never bothered to change it since it wasn't in bad shape. the guy who looked under there last night said it looked like the muffler was starting to come apart at the welds so i might uipgrade soon. 15 years (car was built in late sept or early oct 94) and 126k on the orginal stock exhaust. the car has been a southern car all its life until 2 years ago and i don't drive it in the winter up here. I thought about the magnaflow exhaust that is on ebay for $407 w/ free shipping but i don't really like the single exhaust tips that come out on each side. i wonder if i could get the magnaflow exhaust and somehow reuse my stock tips. if the magnaflow is 3 inch and my stock exhaust tips are 2.5 will they be a restriction? or does the tip size not really matter? or maybe i should just keep my stock setup and add a magnaflow muffler?
09-08-2009, 04:23 PM
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i believe magnaflow offers different style tips now for the catback. so your not limited to just the single long truck style tips. and actually the tips or the pipes that go from the muffler to the back of the car(whatever you wanna call them) that extend out the back are 2.5inches not 3inches. so you are good to go. i should say the inlet of the tips is 2.5inches on the magnaflow catbacks. the tips are 3in
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sorry if that was confusing
09-08-2009, 06:20 PM
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i wonder how hard it would be to hack off the magnaflow tips and use the stock ones? i kind of like the stock tips and also keeping the stock tips allows me to run a modified exhaust on my car and not have to count it as a mod at the T/A nats which would then probably push me up into heavy modified since i'm right on the border between modified and heavy modified, lol.
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09-08-2009, 07:00 PM
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haha your car is soo stock it isnt even funny. how does putting on a catback result in a heavily modified class? lol
you can cut the tips off. Thats what i did with mine. I also didnt like the magnaflow truck tips w/ the T/A bumper. You just need 2 pipes to extend out and then weld everything. A muffler shop will easily be able to do it. And have them extend the tips out slightly furthur then wehre they are now. Like 2inches. Your car looks wierd in the rear with them so far in
you can cut the tips off. Thats what i did with mine. I also didnt like the magnaflow truck tips w/ the T/A bumper. You just need 2 pipes to extend out and then weld everything. A muffler shop will easily be able to do it. And have them extend the tips out slightly furthur then wehre they are now. Like 2inches. Your car looks wierd in the rear with them so far in
09-08-2009, 07:07 PM
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haha your car is soo stock it isnt even funny. how does putting on a catback result in a heavily modified class? lol
you can cut the tips off. Thats what i did with mine. I also didnt like the magnaflow truck tips w/ the T/A bumper. You just need 2 pipes to extend out and then weld everything. A muffler shop will easily be able to do it. And have them extend the tips out slightly furthur then wehre they are now. Like 2inches. Your car looks wierd in the rear with them so far in
you can cut the tips off. Thats what i did with mine. I also didnt like the magnaflow truck tips w/ the T/A bumper. You just need 2 pipes to extend out and then weld everything. A muffler shop will easily be able to do it. And have them extend the tips out slightly furthur then wehre they are now. Like 2inches. Your car looks wierd in the rear with them so far in
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09-08-2009, 07:39 PM
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I just let my dad have my used, but in great shape SLP muffler/tips off my 96 Trans am (looked identical to yours) I would've sold cheap. You're a day late man!
