Thoughts on straight piping?

[Erfman93]

I will be doing a muffler delete in the near future and debating whether I should replace my resonator with an H or X pipe. I've heard the difference of the two on youtube, but I'd like to hear opinions from the people who have gone with these two setups. I honestly love both X and H with the muffler delete.

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[Niz55]

Muffler delete sounds much better. I wouldn't touch the resonator if you are doing a muffler delete. Way too loud and way too raspy.

 

[WhiteyDog]

I'll be able to hear you ripping around in that thing where I live if you go straight pipes all the way back. Fire it up, WOOOOO!!!!!

 

[Evilwill]

I would look up Solo Performance Street Race Catback.
Which is basically straight pipes with x and j pipes.
Just my 2 cents, since you are thinking of going straight pipes.

 

[Jwoair23]

I did the muffler delete only, left the resonator, and I've been pretty happy with it for the $100 it cost me. You do get some drone between 1750-2000 RPM, but its not terrible to me, and I just avoid that RPM range for the most part. I love hearing the V8's natural sound all the time, especially the decel sounds etc.

 

[Erfman93]

Muffler delete sounds much better. I wouldn't touch the resonator if you are doing a muffler delete. Way too loud and way too raspy.

Well I don't mind a little rasp. I've herd other exhaust setups with a ton more rasp than a straight pipe setup (almost v6 territory).

Have you herd them in person?

 

[GSLSE20B]

I will be doing a muffler delete in the near future and debating whether I should replace my resonator with an H or X pipe. I've heard the difference of the two on youtube, but I'd like to hear opinions from the people who have gone with these two setups. I honestly love both X and H with the muffler delete.

Keep the stock mufflers and get rid of the resonator and its crimped restrictions

 

[wildcatgoal]

There's a guy in my club that had headers and after that just pipes to the back, no H/X-pipe. It sounded loud as hell and pretty cool, but on the highway especially from the back it sounded like a tommy gun. Boom boom boom boom... I can't imagine that sounded great in the car.

 

[2morrow]

There was a dude in my neck of the woods with a pretty cool S197 that had straight pipes. It sounded awesome but I don't know how he didn't amass a small fortune in tickets.

Then again, the bay area CA is probably a little different that where your at.

 

[CommyO]

not a straight pipe unless you're cutting the cats off as well. Honestly, I think you should get an x or h pipe and get a quality axelback like corsa or roush or just get a catback. Exhaust is something you'll keep for a while so don't get a cheapo muffler delete

 

[venumous]

Mustangs sound like garbage with no resonator or muffler one, not to mention being ridiculously loud.

 

[Largehawiian]

I have both muffler delete and X pipe - I love the sound, I love the rasp. It sounds pissed off and mean. The sound didn't change much between the delete and the X pipe install. I did the muffler delete first, then the X pipe later. It is obviously louder and more raspy and you can hear it at least a mile away when you're winding it out. Its my favorite mod as of yet.

 

[GuardGT]

the issue i have with a muffler delete, is you can ALWAYS tell its a stock motor with a muffler delete. yes, it can sound good at certain rpms because the motor itself does sound good, but its unrefined and dump truck sounding at all other times, it resonates, drones, and rasps like crap. i ran my car mufflerless with an x driving to my buddys shop to weld up my corsas, it was cool for all of 5 minutes till i realized the similarity to a straight piped ls1 f body with slp loudmouths(aka worst sounding piece of shit car ever)

in my opinion, if you have a built motor, and its at the track, and muffler are proven to slow your car down, then i agree with running straight. i run mufflers on my 9 second 04, mufflers on my 67' race car, and i sure as hell have mufflers on my 16'. mind you, all three cars are raced regularly as well. i feel that its tacky and a cheap way to make your car sound "really loud and cool and fast" when you straight pipe a freaking street car. i prefer refined quality sound over pure volume.

 

[RomanB]

Keep the stock mufflers and get rid of the resonator and its crimped restrictions

Do this, biggest restriction in the stock exhaust is the flex pipe in front of the resonator.

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