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Old 06-14-2005, 05:26 PM
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Old 06-14-2005, 05:33 PM
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it would make the car very loud its like having no muffleron the car you can use it for racing but not for street use and you have to use a muffler when you get your car inspection it the law and you dont want to get pulled over by the cops

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Plus, the computers in our cars figure on some sort of muffler being there. I believe it would actually hurt performance for use.

But I could be way off....
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Yea that would be ungodly loud and I really dont think the sound would be very nice from at least from our engines anyway.
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It'* be loud, but it'd sound like ****.

I've run my engine with just headers, and when the engine was running kinda shitty, it sounded REAL nice. But now that I have her tuned up and everything working properly, she just sounds like a ricer with just headers. It sucks.. badly. Trust me, you won't want that. It isn't that loud, anyways.. like I mean it won't hurt your ears or anything, but as long as you keep the RPMs low in town, you could probably get away with it. But I wouldn't do it. Like MOS Said, it'd decrease performance, because of a loss of backpressure.

Not worth it. Leave it to the guys with 400ci engines, moving 4x more air than we are.


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dude, trust me, it will sound terrible. i ran around w/ an open exhaust. It sounds cool at idle but as soon as you give it gas it sounds like garbage.
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Idle is garbage on my car..

it sucks, it sounded so cool when I initially fired her up [Don can agree with me, he heard it!], but now it sounds so shitty. Guess the loose rockers really made a difference in the beast.

Like I said, things like that are great on cars that move a lot of air [larger displacment engines], but for our cars, it isn't quite as cool.


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as OSG and 95nasta said, loud as hell, but sounds like crap
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Notice that it is not mandrel bent. A good performance mufler would out flow it and sound better.
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