how many cats do i have?

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how many cats do i have?

Reply #15 – October 11, 2006, 09:48:43 AM

SWEEEET that seriously is awesome. uncle works in a metal fab shop hes made me stuff before free (ill offer to pay him for this job for sure) but he could definitely bend me up a pipe with the flared ends and loose s. i might wait 'til next year or just tell him not to tell mom...

but if i wait i could probably convince mom to let me do it. the cat was also replaced, the exhaust guy suggested it, said it was rotted, so mom thinks it would be a huge waste of $$ to pull it off...so maybe by next year i can convince her i "got my money's worth" rofl

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Reply #16 – October 11, 2006, 09:50:28 AM

I had a stock Fox Mustang 4-cat H-pipe on the convertible. After the side exhaust conversion in 2001 I had to run race lers (virtually no restrictions). The sound was nice from the combination. Then in 2004 I put on an off-road X-pipe with no cats. It is L-O-U-D now. All I pretty much hear when I drive is the exhaust. I had no idea that the 4 converters were restricting the sound that much (not that I mind LOL). Performance-wise, I can't say for sure how the X-pipe helped. But sonically the whole tone of the exhaust changed, along with the added volume. There are times when I think about restricting something in the system just to tone it down. It's almost like running open headers.

I think knocking out 1 of the 3 converters would definitely add a bit more sound without being annoying. The 5.0 sound is achieved not through the lers alone, but by a combination of the right lers and headers. Even the stock Mustang headers give a good tone with semi-decent lers (say, $16 Summit lers). The stock cast-iron manifolds do nothing sonically. But you can get some tone out of good lers. They're subtle...just enough sound from outside the car to let people know it's different, but not too annoying inside the car. I guess it just depends on what 'annoying' means to you.

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Reply #17 – October 11, 2006, 01:46:56 PM

well for example when i pull out of my driveway in the morning and its quiet outside and my window is down, and i pull up to the first stop sign, then take off gently like always (this car is my ba baby, i drive it like a granny and im proud of it!) i can hear the rumble pretty well, but i still hear the engine fan and power steering pump and stuff from the engine bay very well too and it kinda drowns the exhaust out:pbb: . when i had it straight from the cat back after driving for awhile i realized just how loud it was but i still felt what i felt when i first started it: it wasnt nearly as loud as i expected it to be. that setup i would say was a little excessive. id take it, but it would be nice to have it mellow when cruising or pulling in the driveway late at night for example :) but liven up when under some load. although, to be honest, i really did like hearing it drone on and on as i cruised at like 40 mph. i felt like i was finally in the "club" of all the guys with brand new pick-ups with all kinds of exhaust work (i REALLY like that trend!)

so, as long as itll be louder than it is now, think ill be really happy. i mean for those three weeks i had her wide open i was in heaven. and i found i was taking off harder too :eek: (only bad byproduct, but i just couldnt get enough of it!)

i have heard from many people ive talked to about this: headers headers headers. some even say with the stock exhaust, if i just had headers it would change it dramatically. someday that will definitely happen. in fact at that time ill probably do what most here do--headers and a true dual exhaust, with one of dem dair "h-pipes" and ill decide whether or not i want to just get another flowmaster 40 or use something else (i seem to remember reading here or on another site, soon after that new system was put on too, that flowmasters are actually py, and the worst for flow rates, and that magnaflow or something was actually the best)

thanks for all the info guys! no wonder i spend too much time on here lol...

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Reply #18 – October 11, 2006, 09:54:33 PM

flwos are not the best flowing but they in my oppinion hvae the best sound, (351w hooker headers 2 1/2 inch and super 40's) i love the way my set upsounds espicaily with my cam nice nice rumble to it and when u step on it thast ALL u hear but thast a 351 and i don't have to run cats

i love old cars lol