for all those with stock exhaust cutting off the muffler sounds sexy as hell lol. i just sawed off the muffler and put a tip on that pointed down. dropped like 30 or so lbs, gained a few hp, and some cash (was gonna get an lm1) and it sounds clean. not too loud when u keep the rpms down (can still hear making calls on the cell) but loud and mean when u floor it. also feels a little quicker but throttle response suffered a tiny bit it feels like. gonna get a p&p tb to make up for it. just a little info for all. im happy. tip cost 7 bucks at a local auto parts store. any questions hit me up! also i thought the exhaust might heat up the gas tank being its right there but went for a drive then felt the gas tank... cool as a cucumber. i can also show pics if anyone wants to see. also might be selling my stock dual dual set up... thanks all

 

i ran my ls1 ta without a muffler just to hear the difference when i installed my magnaflow. even with LT's and ORY it really was shockingly quiet at low rpm. on decel from woot it popped like nuts tho

 

mines only popped a little even after wot. probably cuz its a stock setup

 

On stock internals its not so loud down low.

 

yep i love it.

 

I was going to chop off my muffler as a cheap and easy exhaust "upgrade," but already had a cutout in the I-pipe and didn't think it would benefit me in any way after I put some serious thought into it. Besides, once I put in long tubes and ORY the rasp around 2,000rpms got so bad it sounded like a trumpet was having sex with a jackhammer underneath the car so I ditched the dumped setup and threw in a Rumbler catback. I was always curious as to how it would have sounded with no muffler, though... I wonder if it would have sounded any different from when I just had a cutout and nothing else...
Got any pics of the results? Possibly vids of some idles/revs/drivebys?

 

Yea ill take some pics and get some bids up when I get some time.

 

Cutting the muffler an dumping it right before, or after the rear end suites the Camaro since it looks better without an exposed exhaust tip at or beyond the bumper.
I'd still run at least a small bullet muffler off the end for a better tone.

 

Do you still have cats? If so they remove a lot of drone.

 

Yep still got the cats

 

here it is

 

Maybe it's just the camera angle but that looks like some serious clearance problems haha Scraped anything yet, or does it clear obstacles pretty well?

This was one of the reasons I wanted to cut mine. I thought the Camaro would be a sexy beast with no pipes visible out the back. My TSP catback didn't stick out from under the bumper but you could see the pipes when sitting low behind the car and it looked pretty ghetto so I ended up buying some tips

 

Yea its the camera angle lol. It sits higher than the muffler did and no scrapes yet knock on wood

 

[QUOTE=Microtech82;17317842]the rasp around 2,000rpms got so bad it sounded like a trumpet was having sex with a jackhammer underneath the car QUOTE]

Funniest thing I read all day, and yes that describes it perfectly. Thats how my car sounds under low throttle angle and high load, (ie slowly accelerating up a hill) I'm switching to a flowmaster catback with a cutout to try and dimish the rasp.

 

Oh, sweet! I figured it was the angle of the camera. If it sits higher than the muffler then you'll be scraping other things before ever hooking that tip

Yeah I loved the raw sound the cutout gave it but it was downright embarrassing while climbing hills or doing low-rpm pulls past slow traffic. Hope the catback helps you out! Mine refined the rasp note to where it wasn't so embarrassing.

 

Yep I'm happy. Sounds good in all rpm ranges and even under load. I guess it works perfect with the stock manifolds and cats with the 3" piping from stock slp exhaust

 

Makes me totally regret ever getting the cutout...

 

Quote: the rasp around 2,000rpms got so bad it sounded like a trumpet was having sex with a jackhammer


That's some funny ****.

 

One more in for the trumpet humping a jackhammer. Priceless.

 

i was thinking a cut out too but i said f it and sawed the crap off when i was bored the other night lol. glad i did