Exhausted looking at exhaust....

[latemade5.8]

Good lord.... There are so many options its all just a blur now! X-pipe or H-pipe? Cat back or axle back? What brands? Muffler type? Muffler location? Stock location or mid muffler? HOW CAN ANYONE DECIDE!? I NEED HELP! I have watched so many sound videos I could puke.

I live in a smaller town and there are no performance shops near by so I will have to order online but I don't want to order something I won't end up liking.

Can I PLEASE get some recommendations of what you all are running and what you like about it? I want something loud but not so loud I get a ticket every time I drive my car. I don't mind a little drone but since I have upgraded my stereo I would like to be able to here it at cruising speed. I do have 3.55 gears.

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[GT Nate]

I have the MBRP Street in black. It was easy to install and everything fit together nicely. It has a h-pipe and has a deep sound. Above 4k it does get a 'frappy' sound, but for me it sounds fine. I got a heck of a deal with rebates and it cost a little over $410.

My other plan was to go with Solo Performance. They get lots of great reviews.

 

[latemade5.8]

I have the MBRP Street in black. It was easy to install and everything fit together nicely. It has a h-pipe and has a deep sound. Above 4k it does get a 'frappy' sound, but for me it sounds fine. I got a heck of a deal with rebates and it cost a little over $410.

My other plan was to go with Solo Performance. They get lots of great reviews.

I've considered the MBRP but I've heard bad things about drone and alignment. Do you experience the same?

I've been considering the SOLO Mach thunder or Street race series because I like their design for aligning the tips but haven't heard how the drone is.

 

[blown302]

Corsa sport catback here. Loud when your on it and near stock interior sound when cruising. Nice deep sound and no drone. Top quality materials also. Great sound on the coyote.Highly recommend, I also did the endless video searches and I'm glad I chose Corsa sport. Good luck

 

[svtsupremacy]

watch youtube...and buy the one that sounds the best.

 

[Brostang]

I've considered the MBRP but I've heard bad things about drone and alignment. Do you experience the same?

I've been considering the SOLO Mach thunder or Street race series because I like their design for aligning the tips but haven't heard how the drone is.

MBRP street has nearly no drone at highway speed. The Race is reported to drone, but it corrects the brappy sound and is quite loud.

Solo will not drone because it has j pipes. It offers a range of volumes but is nearly twice as expensive as MBRP.

I have the mbrp street. Im happy because its not terrorizing the neighborhood, its deep on takeoff, no drone, and loud when i chose. Yes it gets raspy in upper rpms, but its not bad to me. Plus i saved about 400-500 compared to other catbacks. Also my tips are straight, and the 4.5" fills the cutouts perfectly.

 

[latemade5.8]

I have the mbrp street. Im happy because its not terrorizing the neighborhood, its deep on takeoff, no drone, and loud when i chose. Yes it gets raspy in upper rpms, but its not bad to me. Plus i saved about 400-500 compared to other catbacks. Also my tips are straight, and the 4.5" fills the cutouts perfectly.

Thank You. This is exactly the type of response I was hoping for.

 

[Road Dog]

[MENTION=28419]latemade5.8[/MENTION] If you have an Auto transmission, you need to realize that if the aftermarket exhaust is loud enough to hear, it will drone. The Drone will occur when you are lugging (1200-1700rpm) the engine in 5th and 6th gear. That is exactly what the Auto trans is programmed to do in normal mode. A manual trans driver can just keep rpm up driving around town or stay out of 5th and 6th around town.

I have an Auto 3:55 gears and Kooks H-pipe catback. Around town if I don't want drone I run Sport+ mode. On the highway it never drones unless I run normal mode and get stuck in stop and go.

 

[Cobra Jet]

Best analogies of the (2) midpipes:

X-pipe: exotic, raspy, screaming Indy Car sound at WOT.

H-pipe: typical classic muscular Muscle Car rumble, deep, very loud growling/roaring NASCAR sound at WOT.


Now for headers:
Long tubes are preferred over shorties if you plan on boosting the car via turbos or supercharging. This is not to say you can't throw LTs on a daily driver, but most will also say that LT's have better exhaust scavenging abilities over shorties. 1 5/8" primary tubes are best for daily N/A engines, while 1 3/4" primaries are better for turbo/supercharged engines.

Shorties: Advantage to most stock headers (exhaust manifolds) is, stainless steel and the primary tubes are not kinked or pinched and have better scavenging over stock. Some prefer shorties due to emissions legalities in certain states where having LT's can present inspection concerns. Again primary tubes of 1 5/8" are most common, while still available in 1 3/4".

Mufflers:
Too damn many available from the aftermarket... Research Exhaust Co.-X's claims by their historical performance, quality of product, their provided charts, graphs and or claim to fame. If HP claims are too good to be true, they are and it's merely a selling tactic.

Performance mufflers have had the same or similar internal structure (baffles vs. no baffles, packing vs no packing, perforated tubing vs no perforations) since the dawn of the Muscle Car era, not much has really changed. Do you want the Exhaust Co. Logo on the exterior of the muffler? What about the muffler being shiny stainless steel, brushed stainless steel, rusty steel, aluminum, black, red, or who knows what other type of exterior casings? Do you want 2.5" or 3", or hell, go as big as what will fit? It's all in the marketing of the muffler, if you were to cut open 20 of the top selling brand mufflers, you'd find that many are very similar (or same) in design - your $$$ goes to the "name" and advertising.

Resonator:
Exhaust system dB police... Mutes the exhaust tone; exhaust system plug. Remove it and save some weight off of the car.

Sound quality of a muffler or exhaust system will be drastically different if listening to it over a YouTube clip vs listening to it in person. Listen to it in person at local car meets, the track or see if another forum member lives near you and meet up to listen. Also, if choosing, be sure the vehicle you're listening to is similar in setup to what you want or vs. your own vehicle's modifications.

A 2.5" exhaust from headers to tails will sound different than one equipped with a 3" on the same car... X vs H pipe will sound totally different.

Good luck!

 

[SoCalTim]

If you can afford/justify the extra expense of the Corsa catbacks, you will not regret it.

I'm running the Corsa Sport catback and it really is the best of both worlds. Quiet when you want it to be, and plenty of quality sound when you want it. Zero drone at any rpm or any speed. Zero.

 

[RRGT]

Look at videos of a muffler delete with x or h pipe. [ame="[MEDIA=youtube]6Boi0p76e7o[/MEDIA]"] cheaper (if that matters) and sounds great. I did a muffler delete only and I don't regret it. Cost me $210. Minor drone at about 60-65 mph but its tolerable plus I have 12" sub. 1800-1900 rpm-parking lot speeds- drone is louder but doesn't bother me. I have an auto trans.

 

[Freedom]

Exhausts for the Mustangs pretty simple. The only really drone free exhaust is Borla and Corsa. Corsa is the true no drone and have a patent. Corsa Sport catback is somewhat loud, definitely manageable and wont get you a ticket(probably). You can get the touring axleback if you wanna keep it pretty quiet. Talk to forum vendors for discounts. MBRP Race/Street catback is the cheapest bang for the bucket exhaust available. It drones but if you can manage it you wont regret choosing it. Corsa is probably the most expensive and best quality. There are even more expensive but they're junk or gimmicky (unless you want dual mode exhaust)

For basic exhaust setup this is how it goes.
Catback comes with the X or H pipe that replaces the suit-case in the middle AND the axleback mufflers. X is little more exotic while H is more muscle car rumble. Axleback replaces the 2 mufflers in the rear. Axleback dooes most of the sound adjustments.

[ame]
this vids pretty good for what corsa sport sounds like. Videos dont do exhausts justice though

 

[Heardcuh]

I have the Corsa Extreme, I used to have the MBRP Race.

The Race was deep and sounded awesome from outside. From inside, the first few weeks I just had headaches and head pressure any time I drove and between 55-80 and really any time I was accelerating, the drone was so resonant and exhausting that I couldn't do it anymore and just decided to spend the coin on a Corsa Extreme. Now I have an exhaust that's nice when I'm strolling along and screams like Satan's choir at WOT. I love it and I "get it" now when they say NO DRONE and talk about spending good money on an exhaust. when cruising I hear it back there just rumbling along but it's out there, going away from the car, not inside the cabin with me just BRRRRRRR making me want to kill myself. Do yourself a favor and don't cheap out on an exhaust and you won't have buyers remorse or have to buy twice like the many others that wrote a comment very similar to this one that I ignored. Be the one to break the cycle.

 

[Sini5ter08]

Had MBRP on mine for about 2 weeks. Definitely had buyers remorse. Did not like the sound at all. Corsa is expensive but if you go with corsa first you will only buy one exhaust system. MBRP is a nice quality system but the h-pipe sound was not to my liking.

 

[Silver_Bullet_S550]

buddy of mine has the flowmaster outlaw catback exhaust for sale. only been on his car 3k miles...save you a few hundred from buying new

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