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Exhaust upgrade?

Reply #60 –
I called my buddy back home who has done 100's of these exhausts on Mustangs at his exhaust shop and he said that the full exhaust system off a 94-95 Mustang will work as well.  Just another source if you are having a hard time locating Fox stuff.  The headers and H-pipe from a 96+ car will not work due to the 4.6L motor but the cat back might but I did not ask him about that.  To answer that you could check Summit and see if the cat back is the same for the 94-95 and 96+ cars.  If you are not in a bind and have to have the exhaust now then definitely shop around.  For me finding the stock 2-1/4" cat back stuff would be next to impossible as they have all been ditched for 2-1/2" stuff long ago around here.  The trick is to find someone who has pulled their cat back or at least the tail pipes off in favor of dumps.  Alot of guys would keep the stock shorties and H-Pipe and just bolt up a 2-1/2" cat back.  I think that is where you are going to find yourself heading and it will be a great exhaust for the money you spend and it will even work really well with a HCI swap.

Darren

83 351W TKO'd T-Bird on the bottle


93 331 Mustang Coupe - 368 rwhp

Exhaust upgrade?

Reply #61 –
'87-95 5.0 will have the basic same H or X pipe...after 95 the Stang was of course the 4.6, those used a wider pipe up front to accommodate the wider engine.

I've got a set of stock 5.0 Stang headers...sitting here collecting dust. For that matter, if you plan to have a stronger engine later on, may as well toss on a set of good aftermarket headers...BBK1515 come to mind, and not only will they bolt to So or HO heads, they will also work great with GT40P's as well.

Or you can buy me a set of the 151's, and I'll send you my 1-5/8" Flowtech's..they won't work on P heads, but they fit great on everything else. :D

EDIT: post above mine...'nuff said.
/thread.
'98 Explorer 5.0
'20 Malibu (I know, Chevy, but, 35MPG. Let's go brandon, eh)

Exhaust upgrade?

Reply #62 –
Quote from: Aerocoupe;411010
I called my buddy back home who has done 100's of these exhausts on Mustangs at his exhaust shop and he said that the full exhaust system off a 94-95 Mustang will work as well.  Just another source if you are having a hard time locating Fox stuff.  The headers and H-pipe from a 96+ car will not work due to the 4.6L motor but the cat back might but I did not ask him about that.  To answer that you could check Summit and see if the cat back is the same for the 94-95 and 96+ cars.  If you are not in a bind and have to have the exhaust now then definitely shop around.  For me finding the stock 2-1/4" cat back stuff would be next to impossible as they have all been ditched for 2-1/2" stuff long ago around here.  The trick is to find someone who has pulled their cat back or at least the tail pipes off in favor of dumps.  Alot of guys would keep the stock shorties and H-Pipe and just bolt up a 2-1/2" cat back.  I think that is where you are going to find yourself heading and it will be a great exhaust for the money you spend and it will even work really well with a HCI swap.

Darren

Thanks for going to the trouble of checking on this. If I could find a complete setup off a mustang locally at the right price I think I'd have to do it. Time is really on my side since I don't have to do anything this year. I could just drive the car this summer with the hole in my ler. I live in a tough area to find anything. It's a very high cost of living area with no junk yards or exhaust shops within several counties. The nearest exhaust shop is 75 miles away near Denver. Getting anything worked on here is horrible, I stopped by a truck shop today to see if they'd be willing to install the X pipe if I brought it in. Sure at $138 per hour.
I think my best bet is to keep checking Craigslist around Denver and see what comes up. I could pick something up and take it to an exhaust shop down there in the same day.

302 I appreciate the offer but I think with shipping I'd be better off finding something locally. I found 2 sets of headers now on Craigslist, one for $35 and one for $50.

I didn't ask but would I be giving up any clearance with the x or h? Roads here in the mountains are very kind to low clearance.

Exhaust upgrade?

Reply #63 –
No more than a conventional exhaust.  Unless your car is lowered then it will be fine with regards to clearance.  One thing I did think of is that you will most likely play hell trying to find a stock H-Pipe with cats in the Denver area as most keep them to pass emissions and then throw on the off road pipes.

Just stay patient and even if you have to drive a couple hundred miles round trip the cost savings will be well worth it.

Darren

83 351W TKO'd T-Bird on the bottle


93 331 Mustang Coupe - 368 rwhp

Exhaust upgrade?

Reply #64 –
I found a cat back setup in the Denver area. It's an aftermarket flowmaster cat back with that came off a 94 mustang. 2 1/2 inch wtih H pipe high flow cats and lers. It doesn't include the headers but the price is right and from what I'm reading here it sounds like 94 would still fit with some minor pipe extensions to the manifolds or headers if I buy those. I'm going to look at these this Sunday. Let me know if this is a bad move before I pull the trigger on it but I think I'm going for it if it looks as good as the guy says. He said the setup only had about 10k on it.

Exhaust upgrade?

Reply #65 –
10k on flowmasters is going to mean "rotted out", probably still worth a look, though. You MAY have to extend the pipes between the h-pipe and lers, and you MAY have to make the tails longer, but you can add chrome extensions easily. You'll want aftermarket headers, because in addition to having too small of an outlet to fit the h-pipe, your manifolds will have too narrow of a spread between the studs, ask me how I know. Even the stock HO headers I was running on my engine were too small to fit my 2.5" h-pipe s.

My new exhaust setup as it waits to be transplanted:
X

Exhaust upgrade?

Reply #66 –
That's good to know since the headers I was thinking about getting were stock shorty headers. I did see a set of Mac headers on craigslist, I don't know if they would work though.
I can't believe the lers would be shot with 10,000 miles. I get 200,000 out of a new stock ler. Do they make these flowmasters that poorly?

Quote from: TheFoeYouKnow;411604
10k on flowmasters is going to mean "rotted out", probably still worth a look, though. You MAY have to extend the pipes between the h-pipe and lers, and you MAY have to make the tails longer, but you can add chrome extensions easily. You'll want aftermarket headers, because in addition to having too small of an outlet to fit the h-pipe, your manifolds will have too narrow of a spread between the studs, ask me how I know. Even the stock HO headers I was running on my engine were too small to fit my 2.5" h-pipe s.

My new exhaust setup as it waits to be transplanted:
X
 

Exhaust upgrade?

Reply #68 –
Either way lers are cheap. It's all the pipe and mandrel bends that cost the money. DO NOT get the MAC shorties, cannot say enough on how shiznitty they are for fitment at the heads.

Darren

83 351W TKO'd T-Bird on the bottle


93 331 Mustang Coupe - 368 rwhp

Exhaust upgrade?

Reply #69 –
We had a little too much snow to check out the exhaust in Denver this week. I may check it out next week but I saw another listed today. It was taken of a 2013 mustang with the new 302 boss. I don't know anything about the changes they made when reintroducing the 302 but it's the complete system, I guess the guy just upgraded his entire exhaust. Anyone know if this would bolt up?

Exhaust upgrade?

Reply #70 –
Not in a hundred thousand years.  Sorry.  Like the rest of the car, the engine is 100 percent different, throttle body to the drain plug.  The only thing in common is suck, squish, bang, blow.

Exhaust upgrade?

Reply #72 –
The 5.0 Coyote motor is a modular motor and entirely different block than the Windsor family.  Stick with the one you found earlier as it will be your best bet with it being 2-1/2" there is room to grow.

Darren

83 351W TKO'd T-Bird on the bottle


93 331 Mustang Coupe - 368 rwhp

Exhaust upgrade?

Reply #73 –
Quote from: TheFoeYouKnow;411807
Not in a hundred thousand years.  Sorry.  Like the rest of the car, the engine is 100 percent different, throttle body to the drain plug.  The only thing in common is suck, squish, bang, blow.

I know a few women like that! lol

Exhaust upgrade?

Reply #74 –
Thanks for the info. It's a shame though, the guy just bought the car and took it home to start working on it. He said the exhaust has around 30 on it. I'll keep looking and may go for the Flowmaster set up.