No mufflers anyone?
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Brian,
go to youtube and type in borla straight pipes. I have some videos you can hear, stock ls1 w/ borla pipes with and without disk inserts. Sound is not that great with camera phone but you will get the ideal. I am about to install an x-pipe which I have heard will cut down on the gurging sound.
Honestly instead of spending big bucks on after market catbacks, this is a way to gain the sound you are looking for your vette.
go to youtube and type in borla straight pipes. I have some videos you can hear, stock ls1 w/ borla pipes with and without disk inserts. Sound is not that great with camera phone but you will get the ideal. I am about to install an x-pipe which I have heard will cut down on the gurging sound.
Honestly instead of spending big bucks on after market catbacks, this is a way to gain the sound you are looking for your vette.
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Not sure how no mufflers would sound, but I can tell you that putting Bullets, headers and x-pipe on mine made a world of difference in sound. It's just incredible. I absolutely LOVE it and would not change my exhaust for anything else. 
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My dad and I both agree that it sounds similar to an old muscle car, and if our 72 Monte Carlo had a high flowing exhaust it would sound very similar.
Too bad its completely original all the way down to the fender skirts with 28k on the clock.
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Again there is a diffrence between being loud and sounding good.
Im not looking for any performance gains by removing the mufflers.
Im only looking for a louder sound. As long as it sounds good to me that is.
Thanks for your input.
And for understanding to each their own. Thats is a concept lost on a few people around here so it appears.
Last edited by Brian1997LS1; Oct 26, 2010 at 07:19 PM.
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Brian,
go to youtube and type in borla straight pipes. I have some videos you can hear, stock ls1 w/ borla pipes with and without disk inserts. Sound is not that great with camera phone but you will get the ideal. I am about to install an x-pipe which I have heard will cut down on the gurging sound.
Honestly instead of spending big bucks on after market catbacks, this is a way to gain the sound you are looking for your vette.
go to youtube and type in borla straight pipes. I have some videos you can hear, stock ls1 w/ borla pipes with and without disk inserts. Sound is not that great with camera phone but you will get the ideal. I am about to install an x-pipe which I have heard will cut down on the gurging sound.
Honestly instead of spending big bucks on after market catbacks, this is a way to gain the sound you are looking for your vette.
Thanks for the help.
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Bullets do help cut it down a little bit (barely) without restricting flow. I have two 3" dynomax bullets on mine and you can see straight through them (not even a screen in the way). They toned my car down a notch, but they are still pretty brutal.
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X pipe ect?
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Again there is a diffrence between being loud and sounding good.
On loud to be loud, you know the type..new full size truck with the loudest exhaust they could buy wanting to think its faster when in fact its aturd. To each their own.
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Anyone on here running cat back no mufflers?
Thinking about having the exhaust shop remove my mufflers and just straight pipe my 97.
I want it loud. But i want it to sound good too. Not just like an 85 chevy 305 pickup truck with a huge exhaust leak.
Let me know what i ned to know people.
Thanks!
Thinking about having the exhaust shop remove my mufflers and just straight pipe my 97.
I want it loud. But i want it to sound good too. Not just like an 85 chevy 305 pickup truck with a huge exhaust leak.
Let me know what i ned to know people.
Thanks!
Had it this way for somewhere around 7-8 years, I love it.
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Thanks for the response. Yeah I find myself having them open more often than not, I absolutely love when I first crank it up.
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To be honest that picture is quite old. I tried it with the turndowns facing each other, facing the ground, etc. Didn't seem to make a difference, I ended up taking off the turndown extensions eventually and now it ends right at the cutout.
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Does it make a difference without the turndowns cause Ive heard that with them facing the ground it makes it quieter or at least muffles it a little.