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Old Feb 7, 2007 | 07:22 PM
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I know alot of people have headers, mini cats and stock catback.... what does it sound like? does it have a decent growl at idle?
does anyone have a sound clip?? I would love to have a sound clip?
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Old Feb 7, 2007 | 07:38 PM
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I wish I could upload my track runs so you could hear at WOT. The car idles nicely, bit more growl than stock, but at WOT it's awesome. I habe LG longtubes w/cats out stock exhaust.
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Old Feb 7, 2007 | 10:47 PM
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I live in FL, so cats arent nessesary. would deleting the cats change the sound? would it make it raspy? (I HATE rasp!) LOL
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Old Feb 7, 2007 | 10:56 PM
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I just had my Corsa Sports put on the other day. Had AR Headers on for awhile with stock exhaust...No comparison...Much better with the Corsa Sports on.
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Old Feb 7, 2007 | 11:12 PM
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I just had my Corsa Sports put on the other day. Had AR Headers on for awhile with stock exhaust...No comparison...Much better with the Corsa Sports on.
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I thought I liked my set-up with the stock exhaust. Just installed the Corsa's yesterday...there is no comparison.


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Old Feb 8, 2007 | 10:30 PM
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if I dont like the sound i will change the mufflers to something else.

what I need to know is, does running no cats cause rasp?
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Old Feb 9, 2007 | 05:38 AM
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Originally Posted by DooSPX
I know alot of people have headers, mini cats and stock catback.... what does it sound like? does it have a decent growl at idle?
does anyone have a sound clip?? I would love to have a sound clip?
believe me the stock exhaust make the c6 sick the sound dont match with sport car like c6
i have LT headers x pipe the sound better but the car still sick
i just waiting the NEW CORSA exhaust system
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Old Feb 9, 2007 | 08:31 AM
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Do any of you guys with the Corsa Sports also have A6...what about the drone?
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Old Feb 9, 2007 | 11:45 AM
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as far as the rasp goes, go with a high flow converter....it only decreases you by 3-5 rwhp and you don't have to worry about rasp or weird smells
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Old Feb 9, 2007 | 12:18 PM
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Here is a clip of the before and after with Kooks headers and no cats:

http://www.fquick.com/videos/viewvideo.php?id=1235
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Old Feb 9, 2007 | 12:43 PM
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thanks shockerracing... not too bad!
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Old Feb 9, 2007 | 12:46 PM
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No problem, it was a nice upgrade from stock and in my opinion a better way to start than a catback because you are actually going to get a gain in hp out of it. That is actually my friends car and shortly after we put together that video he added the Magnaflow catback and it sounds unique almost exotic. I will look to see if I have a video with the magnaflows on.
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Old Feb 9, 2007 | 01:12 PM
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Originally Posted by ShockerRacing
No problem, it was a nice upgrade from stock and in my opinion a better way to start than a catback because you are actually going to get a gain in hp out of it. That is actually my friends car and shortly after we put together that video he added the Magnaflow catback and it sounds unique almost exotic. I will look to see if I have a video with the magnaflows on.
that would be great!!! love to hear it.
what series magnaflows? how is the drone?
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Old Feb 9, 2007 | 01:16 PM
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Ill have clips shortly of headers with the bullet PRT.. Spending a whole lot of money on highly engineered headers, then running it through a restrictive exhaust doest make sense to me...
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the thing that i gather is that the stock mufflers, though quite are not that rescrictive...
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Here is the stock catback, but with Kooks and high flow cats

http://s53.photobucket.com/albums/g6...t=MOV00736.flv
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Old Feb 9, 2007 | 03:43 PM
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pretty good from the stock mufflers. i think. thanks guys for the clips.
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Old Feb 9, 2007 | 03:49 PM
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Originally Posted by DooSPX
the thing that i gather is that the stock mufflers, though quite are not that rescrictive...
people keep saying that yet I have not seen any dyno testing backing it up.. How much different is the C5 exhaust setup vs. the C6.. the bullets alone were making 12-15whp on a C5...and there are other dynos suggesting the same straight through style will make similar gains on the C6.
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Old Feb 9, 2007 | 04:05 PM
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Originally Posted by bdking57
people keep saying that yet I have not seen any dyno testing backing it up.. How much different is the C5 exhaust setup vs. the C6.. the bullets alone were making 12-15whp on a C5...and there are other dynos suggesting the same straight through style will make similar gains on the C6.
good question... im just going by reading on here.
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