It still won’t be quiet with the Vibrants. I have Catless LTHs, Vibrant mini race mufflers and a Steeda axle back with round mufflers that look like the Ultra Quiets and it is still very loud.
Quieter than stock with headers just adding this muffler?? Do you have any videos you could send me?I had the true dual 3” jones max flow welded in where my resonator was, now it’s almost quieter than stock … sounds tits, it’s an X
I’m in college. My parents are in an HOA, and I’m living in a rental community with 2 friends. It’s close to campus and practical. I’m not moving so I can have a loud car. It’s just common decency to not wake up my neighbors every morning because trust me, the walls on these houses are paper thin, and a straight piped 5.0 will actually wake up half the street.First:
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Ok…. Explain how it make sense that one with a performance car modifies the exhaust so it’s more free flowing, louder, and sounds better - but then wants to add back components to choke it and make it quieter to near stock levels….
LMAO
Waste of time and $$$ - either go all in or just leave the exhaust stock if a modified exhaust bothers your ears… and if you’re worried about it bothering other people’s ears, drive by them faster so they won’t hear you as long.
Go headers and go loud.
My both my 94 and 93 Mustang 5.0’s have LT’s with aftermarket 2.5” exhaust - they both are loud at idle, loud when driving through the gears or when cruising, and very loud at WOT…. It sounds great and I could care less who thinks otherwise. All of my 5.0 Mustangs have always been loud…. IMO, if it’s too loud when you’re next to me on a road or highway, use your go pedal or brake pedal to distance yourself….
Plus for those in HOA developments or communities - you know where you’re living, you know your bylaws, you know your bitchy neighbors, so if you want loud and have to stuff potatoes or pool noodles into your exhaust tails before you start it every morning, who’s fault is that…
Exactly ^^^.
Headers absolutely add solid power.
I may consider that mid pipe, especially because coyotes seem sensitive to x pipes and h pipes for their quality of sound. And of course nicer ones usually sound better. I’ve been considering the Magnaflow 11386 that someone else recommended, but there’s doesn’t seem to be any videos of them on 5.0s that I can find. Also I did a quad conversion when I put my Valvetronics on
I mean it’s hard to justify any power mod really. Seems to me like everything past intake and tune is diminishing returns unless you’re talking about boost. Based on what I’m seeing, I’d expect maybe 20-25hp peak and hopefully a larger gain elsewhere in the power band. I reached out to my tuner (he’s a good guy, runs his own business locally and does dyno tunes and all that) to get his opinion. He’ll give me an accurate estimate based on his experiences. Also I do want to note that I’ll be doing a GT350 manifold at the same time as the headers.
