First Step To Good Sound
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NoLimit95
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Your tips?
Well, they will be when they get here.
You talked me into them by having them on your car. If they don't fit like I hope they do, I might just have to buy a different pair. Such as these double wall Magnaflows.
dnsherrill
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MF makes a nice oval tip but it as a 2.25'' o.d. inlet pipe..I decided to go with a 4'' round that has a 2.5'' o.d. inlet pipe
-for the mufflers at the bumper, I've seen some guys use an ofset outlet pipe then turn the muffler body upwards, away from the ground..that's a nice look, imo
-for the mufflers at the bumper, I've seen some guys use an ofset outlet pipe then turn the muffler body upwards, away from the ground..that's a nice look, imo
NoLimit95
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Magnaflows pictured above are as specified:
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Material: 100% Stainless Steel - Mirror Finish
Diameter: 3.25in.x 4.75in..
I.D. Inlet: 3in.
Length: 8.25in.[/FONT]
warrioralumni08
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Ahh, great choice! Have never run Magnaflows on any vehicles of mine, or in the family. Always, have stuck with Flowmaster, and my 94 has the Super 44s, can't complain.
Nolimit..its a toss up I guess, from the one pic of the black 96 LSC the ractive tips look like they fit the contour of the cut out of the 1st gen bumper better than the pypes tip..I wish there was a combination of both..as thin as the pypes but more circular..basically a stock tip that's larger! Lol I'm just being picky.
NoLimit95
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I'm hoping they'll fit and look decent Kevin but if not, there's always others to choose from. It would be nice if they were round on the top and flattened on the bottom. I'll put them up to the cut out when they come in. I'll just drop one muffler down far enough to check the fitment and see what I'm up against. I'm sure someone with a Gen 2 would take them for $50 and free shipping, if they don't fit mine. Always have eBay too.
Sapperfire
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Anyone know of any Marks using an X-muffler at the trans and running just pipe all the way back, finishing it off with some echo tips?
I always liked the tips cut at an angle.. but ya get the idea. Just curious how a setup like that would sound on a Mark
I always liked the tips cut at an angle.. but ya get the idea. Just curious how a setup like that would sound on a Mark
NoLimit95
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I thought about doing the same thing Sapper, minus that type of tip and I guess it would work fine but I wanted to stay as low toned as possible, whereas, you might want yours louder. Like I was told when I asked the same question, "you can always add mufflers"
Just ordered mine 5 min ago and should be here by Tuesday, Wednesday at the latest.
Discount Coupon 205zw applied: -$41.12 Sub-Total: $173.30 UPS Ground (Free Shipping - Lower 48): $0.00 Total: $173.30
Thanks to Doug and his bargain hunting, I saved $41.00 on these. Without the code, their asking price was $107.21 each. Now I'm down to the piping. That's waiting till the shop(s) confirm they can't do it cheaper than the online mandrel kit.
NoLimit95
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UPS caught me of guard a few minutes ago and dropped the tips off at the door. They're bigger than I was expecting. Big possibility they might be up for sale at a discounted price so that I can go with some double walled Magnaflows. I'll drop a muffler later and see what they're going to look like first. Now I'm waiting on the mufflers to show up.
87TTOPGT420
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if you dont want tips I may be Iinterested
NoLimit95
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I'll let you know after I have test fitted them to see what they're going to look like. I should have measured the cutout first but for some reason, I was thinking they were larger than what they are.
chestnut101
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i like them for my gen2
dnsherrill
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yea, the bumper cutout is designed with the stock tip in mind...kinda small; when I get around to it I want to paint my flowmeisters flat black...they hang kinda low and are too visible
Hot*Mk8
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Ha, that's funny. My second set of mufflers for the 98 showed up this evening from Lincoln Motor Sport. It was a good exhaust day in Mark VIII land!
NoLimit95
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What makes the exhaust day even better is to find out that 1996 cutouts must be different than 1995's because those tips I got are a perfect match to the cutout contour on my bumper. I mean they are going to fit like they were made for each other.
Can't ask for better. They'll even fit better than a Gen 2 cutout does.
NoLimit95
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See the difference between the 96 and 95? My cutout is longer and not as rounded on the top. Maybe it's an LSC and base difference. I don't know but I like it.
1996
Then mine
1996
Then mine
LSC vs base bumper is the same..pics are just hard to see with that black 96..eitherway I think either tip would look good, those pypes tips do seem to be about the same curvature as the bumper cutout..should look good!
Don Pfau
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looks to me like those tips would fill the cutout nicely. I dislike it when you can see the mufflers. Of course I do not have any mufflers in the back but we angled the tail pipes down so if I add some later you hopefully will not see them.
chestnut101
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does anyone make a gen style tip in 2 1/2? i love the stock tips but im going to larger exhaust.
NoLimit95
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With the type of Magnaflow mufflers I have coming, they are going to tuck up in there real good and shouldn't be seen very much at all. Surely nothing like the huge stock mufflers I have now. I believe it's all going to turn out good when completed. They'll show as much as DLF's do. Same muffler he's using.
Any idea if your X pipe muffler is offered in natural and not polished. I think I looked at everyone of them on both Summit Racing and magnaflows website and only the polished ones have what they call the Tru-X.
Some others have said they run the same one only longer, what are the different sounds going from longer to shorter. And are they all x'd in the middle? Thanks.
Some others have said they run the same one only longer, what are the different sounds going from longer to shorter. And are they all x'd in the middle? Thanks.
Don do you drive this car to and from the track? I see you only run the x and no mufflers which is my plan too unless it is just unbearable in the cabin.
NoLimits when do you think you will your system installed by?
NoLimit95
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Mine should be done by the 10th of Jan or sooner but if you want to hear "about" what it's going to sound like, listen to DLF's exhaust clip on the 1st page of this thread. He had headers and a different type of high flow cats but the sound should be very close to the same.
As for the finish, I was only making sure I was getting SS but Magnaflow apparently polishes just about everything they make or they chrome their parts. Length wise, I went short with mine and not all have an X inside. Some are muffled straight through, just like straight pipes but mufflers built into it. I'm just not looking for loudness. I did think about going with the muffled X and no mufflers but after hearing a couple at WOT, I decided against it.
I would have it put in sooner but the mufflers haven't shown up yet and when they do, I want to take it to the shop to see if they will run their SS pipe with mandrel bends for the same price or less than the kit that's online, minus the labor of course. I'll most likely end up ordering the kit because I have recently remembered that I have an ex-family member that used to do exhaust for a living and now he works out of his own garage and I'll be able to drive there quietly and not cut anything. He can cut it off. Just depends on him having the time. If not, I'll have a shop do it and I'll cut the cat and res off myself first.
dnsherrill
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the first shop i went to told me they would not cut the 3rd cat, and if I did it then brought it to them to add exhaust, they didn't want to be involved....the 2nd place I went to, they cut it out, and put it back together- true 2.5'' duals...but that clown also told me a crossover, H, or any scavenging blend would be a waste, so he did none of those... eventually I got the first place to clean up his mess; I STILL have a droopy RH tip to get reset
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fwiw, every day I walk through the parking deck of my place of employment; since re-doing my exhaust I've noticed how many new and new-ish cars have oval tips and cut out bumpers...kind of the norm imo
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fwiw, every day I walk through the parking deck of my place of employment; since re-doing my exhaust I've noticed how many new and new-ish cars have oval tips and cut out bumpers...kind of the norm imo