exhaust help.
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Racer
Joined: Nov 2001
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From: st.louis missouri
exhaust help.
i'm trying to figure out what exhaust i have stock or not.. bought used,94 coupe,has pipe on each side from manifolds each to a small cat then pipes go to what looks like a small muffler.both go in and both come out.this small muffler is where main cat would be,then each pipe goes to round mufflers at rear of car and out of them to larger than stock rectangle tips.tips look like they are screwed on over stock tips,they are stainless steel tips ...any idea if this is a performance setup or what...tried to gut cat and found this muffler instead of cat.thanks for any help
Racer
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From: TX
Re: exhaust help. (dan-t)
The cats on my 95 are about 10" long and 8" in diameter. The stock exhaust can be dropped and the cats will remain attached to the downpipe. I would personally go with long tubes if you have no desire to be legal. They aren't that expensive.
Drifting
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From: Omaha NE
Re: exhaust help. (dan-t)
If you run long tubes without cats it will be loud. I have no cats, no resonators, and no mufflers, along with long tubes(and even a deaf person could hear these pipes). I'd say to keep mufflers, and resonators if you don't want it to be unbearably loud.
Racer
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From: TX
Re: exhaust help. (BAdAzZV8)
My long tubes are LOUD at WOT. However, with the Corsa, it is pretty reasonable at normal engine speeds. I have absolutely no resonance and cannot even hear the exhaust while cruising. It is quieter at cruise than it was with factory exhaust manifolds and cats. It is much louder with the headers at WOT.
LT1's have 2 cats and true dual exhaust. L98's have 2 pre-cats and 1 main cat.
LT1's have 2 cats and true dual exhaust. L98's have 2 pre-cats and 1 main cat.
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From: Clarksville Tn
Re: exhaust help. (kkonen)
You should get longtubes and replace the resonator with an X-pipe, then swap mufflers out with 2 chamber 40 series flowmasters. That setup sounds down right awesome. Hopefully nathan will chime in and give you the link to his sound clip, he has that exact setup. If I had a vette that's the exhaust I would run no matter what!
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