Straight Piped again!!

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I used to have a 93 base Mark with chopped muffs and the resonator removed and welded in straight pipe with nice tips, it sounded strong and deep-yet not too loud. I never got hassled by Police either. I'm thinking of having this done to my 96 LSC!! I love loud cars, i love to hear it, yet i don't want to get tickets everywhere.

How would the sound differ between the two cars being that the 93 had Y pipe and the 96 has dual exhaust..?? I believe the 96 3rd cat acts as an H-pipe in a way, from one of the posts i read on here. Would it be louder then my 93, more raspy..?? Deeper..??

I know i will lose alot of low-end torque, but i might get gears in the future-the main thing here is good sound for not too much $$.

PS can someone explain to me why you lose torque with less back pressure :confused:
 
The 96 will sound about the same as the 93... and you won't lose lots of low end torque. You will have plenty of back pressure since you still have your cats on.
 
It won't sound that different.... maybe a little bit... Just hacking off the muffs isn't going to change jack power wise... the restriction come from the :q:q:q:qty manifolds and cats.
 
The stock mufflers are heavy and quite restrictive, you gain around 5rwhp by removing them power wise and another 10 horsepower from weight savings!
 
98LSC32V said:
The stock mufflers are heavy and quite restrictive, you gain around 5rwhp by removing them power wise and another 10 horsepower from weight savings!
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Quoted for funniness.... lol... I know what you mean though... every 100 pounds is worth a tenth in the quarter!
 
Yea obviously you don't actually gain horsepower from losing weight but the effect is the same as if you gained horsepower. BTW, I don't actually think the stock mufflers weigh 50 lbs each but they are quite heavy especially when filled up with water.
 
cut mine off 2 years ago and never looked back. 40 pounds sounds about right, mine were pretty heavy. Just a couple months ago I had a shop finish the pipe to the back with a turn down, so it looks stock from the outside.
 
I cut the mufflers off my 98LSC a couple weeks ago, and I noticed an improvement in power. Also, the sound is great, loud enough to hear it, but not loud enough to get tickets for it. I imagine if you had longtubes and larger pipes though, it would need some mufflers to quiet it back down.
 
I hacked the third cat, resonator and both mufflers off of my '93, I love the sound, and just about everyone that hears it does as well.
 
I love to ride between close buildings with the windows down...I cut out one cat or resonator whichever it is,then both mufflers and straight piped it. I don't have the LSC so its the pipe right after the Y comes into one.

It sounds wicked!!!
 
Did you guys install an X pipe after 2 front cats, or is it 2 pipes off the engine into 2 cats, then straight out?

I've heard that if the pipes are totally individual, you get alittle "put put" symptom at idle.
 
You need to have a crossover pipe... they sound like :q:q:q:q without one and it's not good for power either.
 
THat is what a girl in the passenger seat of my friends lightning truck yelled out at me as we passed them in traffic.

bad thing is.. she wasn't joking, and she was right.
 
I was origanlly thinking of just disconnecting the exhaust near the middle of the car-keeping the 3 cats, and just clamping on turn downs, on my tbird this sounded deep cause the exhaust note is resonating under the car
 
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