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Old May 8, 2006 | 03:03 PM
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I may have to move the vette to daily driving duties and I think the headers/ghl's might be a bit too much. I was thinking about changing the exhaust to:
1)Bassini
2)Magnaflow
3)Callaway

I have "heard" that the Magnaflows have some drone and that the Callaway Double D is pretty quiet. Any other info would be appreciated. I have had the Corsa Touring (tugboat sound bothered me) and the Borla (drone made me insane).

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Old May 8, 2006 | 03:13 PM
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What GHL's are you running? I went from the ZO6 Ti's to GHL's w/ 6 inch cans and the car sounds great. Not too loud below 3k but starts barking above 3k. I run full H/C with LT's and hi-flow cats. Even my wife likes the sound. It is much louder but deeper than the Ti's.

Also take a look at the Ti's. They sounded good on my car but I wanted my loud pedal back.
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Old May 8, 2006 | 06:41 PM
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I agree, I absolutely love the sound, but during the summer with the top on and running errands in traffic all day it starts to bug me. I would love to have the same "sound" only slightly muted.

I believe I have the bullets.

thanks!

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Old May 8, 2006 | 07:58 PM
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I'm also running the Ghl bullets with headers and love the sound. I'd think the ti's would be your best bet if you wanted to tame it down a little. Other than that, you'd probably have to get rid of the headers.
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Originally Posted by WKMCD
What GHL's are you running? I went from the ZO6 Ti's to GHL's w/ 6 inch cans and the car sounds great. Not too loud below 3k but starts barking above 3k. I run full H/C with LT's and hi-flow cats. Even my wife likes the sound. It is much louder but deeper than the Ti's.

Also take a look at the Ti's. They sounded good on my car but I wanted my loud pedal back.
Ya what he said.
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Originally Posted by WKMCD
What GHL's are you running? I went from the ZO6 Ti's to GHL's w/ 6 inch cans and the car sounds great. Not too loud below 3k but starts barking above 3k. I run full H/C with LT's and hi-flow cats. Even my wife likes the sound. It is much louder but deeper than the Ti's.

Also take a look at the Ti's. They sounded good on my car but I wanted my loud pedal back.
Kevin - you and I are thinking alike again. I'm selling my Ti's and am installing the GHL Bullet Series exhaust for the same reasons. Mike
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Old May 9, 2006 | 07:20 AM
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Kevin - you and I are thinking alike again. I'm selling my Ti's and am installing the GHL Bullet Series exhaust for the same reasons. Mike
You're going to love the GHL's!
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