Throaty exhaust with cats

[Gautam]

Hi,
Living in Ontario,Canada, we have to put up
with emission laws, and therefore, we are forced to run with our catalyctic-converters.

I have heard several off-road H-pipe setups and think they are some of the coolest sounding exhaust, regardless of the mufflers (although I think American Thunder or Mac Flowpaths sound the best).

I currently run my stock cats and headers with a Mac Flowpath cat-back (and a mild cam)and am pleased with my exhaust, however, its loud and has a lot of drone. What I would rather have is a throaty/gurgle/rumble sound.

So, what is the cheapest way to get this type of sound, while still running stock headers & cats?

Bye!



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Gautam N. Lad
http://www.cubicdesign.com
http://www.cubicdesign.com/mustang/

[95mustanggt]

If you already have a cat-back system you should go with an aftermarket H-pipe or X-pipe with Cats.
Other than that you might want to swap your headers out for some long tubes, but I think the best gain in power is by removing all 4 of those stock cats. I scrapped my cats and that made a HUGE difference. Now, I know that you can't scrap them, but I'd go with high flow cats atleast.

Plus the sound is awesome

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Driving: 1998 F-150
Far way in Edmonton==>
1995 Mustang GT

[Gautam]

Hi,
How are you getting away with it? I mean, what do you do when you have to go for your emission tests? Or when a cop pulls you over?

Bye!

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Gautam N. Lad
http://www.cubicdesign.com
http://www.cubicdesign.com/mustang/

[95mustanggt]

Originally posted by Gautam:
Hi,
How are you getting away with it? I mean, what do you do when you have to go for your emission tests? Or when a cop pulls you over?

Bye!

Well I kinda cheat the system (well not really). See I'm from Alberta. We don't car about the environment and therefore we are allowed to go with off-road pipes.

My car is not here, it's in Edmonton. And when I move to Dallas I'm still keeping my Alberta plates and registration as I'm going down for less than the legal time to change my stuff over the Texas system.

So I don't worry about all that emmissions stuff. I'm just going to get burned when I finally pick a spot to move to and it's not Alberta

[Gautam]

Hi,
The following is a dumb idea.

I was looking around and found info on exhaust cut-outs. Basically its a T-shaped pipe that's got an extra opening for exhaust to exit through the opening, rather then through the cats/mufflers. This t-pipe would go right after the headers.

This looks like the cheapest alternative:
http://www.thunderracing.com/lt1exhaust.htm#CUT

Oh well, will see whatI can do. =)

Bye!


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Gautam N. Lad
http://www.cubicdesign.com
http://www.cubicdesign.com/mustang/

[95mustanggt]

Originally posted by Gautam:
Hi,
The following is a dumb idea.

I was looking around and found info on exhaust cut-outs. Basically its a T-shaped pipe that's got an extra opening for exhaust to exit through the opening, rather then through the cats/mufflers. This t-pipe would go right after the headers.

This looks like the cheapest alternative:

Oh well, will see whatI can do. =)

Bye!

I don't know if that is such a dumb idea. Many of the guys that I work with that had muscle cars when they were young used to do that. Kind of like using Nitrous, you look (sound) like a sleeper, but when the light turns green.....