Extensive exaust review
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Racer
Joined: Jun 2004
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From: Colorado Springs CO
Extensive exaust review
All of the below is IMHO!!!
Switched up the exaust on the Z for the 5th time
, here's the low-down for anyone contemplating exaust work.
1)stock: Toooo mild for a 385/405 hp car. Can only start to hear it when pulling hard. This should have been the exaust for the coupes/convert. Noise level on a scale on 1 to 10..... 2
2)stock manifolds, cats, h-pipe, bullets: Start-up is awesome. Has the occasional pop on decel (which kind of makes it sound menacing). Overall, not too loud, sounds more like a Z should sound. Throw in an X-pipe, and i'd say this is maybe how it should have come from the factory. Noise level.....4
3)LT headers, highflow cats, x-pipe, bullets: Kind of like above, only a little louder, and more smoothed out. About as far as i would ever go for a daily driver (partition could easily quiet it down). Noise level..6
4)LT headers, no cats, x-pipe, bullets: One word...LOUD. This is for the NON-daily driver, **** off the wife, all hell is breaking loose when you floor it set-up. Made me get a partition. Still too loud for "the other half"
It really turns heads (including cops). Noise level...9
5)LT headers, no cats, x-pipe, Ti's back on: This is a nice setup for a daily driver!!! Startup tells you it's not stock
. Around town and cruising is only a little louder then stock. When you floor it though, the volume reallyyyy kicks up...Noise level...around 3.
I'm actually glad i did it. Like i said, it's a good middle ground for a pseudo-daily driver. And now i get to ditch the partition, and save weight.
Switched up the exaust on the Z for the 5th time
, here's the low-down for anyone contemplating exaust work.1)stock: Toooo mild for a 385/405 hp car. Can only start to hear it when pulling hard. This should have been the exaust for the coupes/convert. Noise level on a scale on 1 to 10..... 2
2)stock manifolds, cats, h-pipe, bullets: Start-up is awesome. Has the occasional pop on decel (which kind of makes it sound menacing). Overall, not too loud, sounds more like a Z should sound. Throw in an X-pipe, and i'd say this is maybe how it should have come from the factory. Noise level.....4
3)LT headers, highflow cats, x-pipe, bullets: Kind of like above, only a little louder, and more smoothed out. About as far as i would ever go for a daily driver (partition could easily quiet it down). Noise level..6
4)LT headers, no cats, x-pipe, bullets: One word...LOUD. This is for the NON-daily driver, **** off the wife, all hell is breaking loose when you floor it set-up. Made me get a partition. Still too loud for "the other half"
It really turns heads (including cops). Noise level...9 5)LT headers, no cats, x-pipe, Ti's back on: This is a nice setup for a daily driver!!! Startup tells you it's not stock
. Around town and cruising is only a little louder then stock. When you floor it though, the volume reallyyyy kicks up...Noise level...around 3.I'm actually glad i did it. Like i said, it's a good middle ground for a pseudo-daily driver. And now i get to ditch the partition, and save weight.
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St. Jude Donor '09
nice
After hearing your description, I've even more amped that I bought my set of LG Pro LTs with the off-road X setup. It's going to sound nastay!
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From: Are you fat because you're lazy or lazy because you're fat? San Jose, CA
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St. Jude Donor '09
catback
I've got B&B Bullets on there right now, better put mom and kids to bed. Well, maybe not, cause I'm going to wake them up.
Racer
Joined: Feb 2006
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From: Austin TX
I have the bullets, stock manifolds,gutted cats and I don't think mine is loud enough. I'm fixing to go cam and LT with X pipe and hope it gets louder but I was considering going to the GHL's. My buddy has the GHL's and his cam really pops and its a 224,224,112. Those GHL's seem way louder. You think the new setup will compete with the GHL's?
Melting Slicks
Joined: Oct 2006
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From: Gainesville Georgia
I love the sound of the B&B (PRT's) Thats my favorite followed by the GHL (MAGNUM's) at a close second best. I love the deep sound, there amazing, I still don't own a set I just hear them on friends cars at the Vette club...Awesome!! Maybe next spring time I'll get a set. 
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My exhaust is LOUD
I have Lt Headers w/Random Cats.The GHL's roar.My nelghbors voted that I wake up the entire Complex when I leave @3:30 Am.Even w/ the X pipe they roar.Has anyone on the Forum installed Resonators to reduce the exhaust noise?And if so,what kind. 
