Bye Bye Mufflers
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Bye Bye Mufflers
Thought I'd share with everyone... I finally took my borlas off and welded in straight pipes today. It sounds much better ! However I thought that it would be a bit louder. I guess a bigger cam, or different headers will change this?
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Originally Posted by mjones
Thought I'd share with everyone... I finally took my borlas off and welded in straight pipes today. It sounds much better ! However I thought that it would be a bit louder. I guess a bigger cam, or different headers will change this?
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Anything that improves breathing will make it louder. When I added ported heads, intake and headers, my whisper-quiet stock LT4 exhaust system all of the sudden sounded REAL good! Still not extremely loud but noticeably louder with a very ***** to the wall sound, especially at WOT.
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Originally Posted by mjones
Thought I'd share with everyone... I finally took my borlas off and welded in straight pipes today. It sounds much better ! However I thought that it would be a bit louder. I guess a bigger cam, or different headers will change this?
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Yes I just had to put new hi-flow cats on because it wouldn't pass emissions test. I deleted my resonator a year ago, that helped a little. I thought about taking off the cats, but I was having a hell of a time trying to find someone to pass it for me so I gave in and got new cats.
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its truely hard to find someone to hot smog it for people nowadays with all the laws against it.i noticed a nice difference when i welded in straight pipes in power and sound.i like it.best of both worlds.and i still have the main cat since 84's had no pre-cats.still sounds good!
