If you mean no resnonator and no muffler than it sounds deeper, not sure on if it has a raspier sound.
yea this is the kind of crackle that i want out of it, i dnt kno how many times a week i watch this video I even threw it on my phone, haha
plus this is tha video where i heard of the worlds greatest forum!
YouTube- 2003 Lincoln LS V8 Bassani Exhaust
being that it's a duratec engine, good luck with making it sound good. however, you might wanna take a look at stock 05+ Mustang GT mufflers. SHO and Duratec Taurus guys have been having decent results with those without it sounding like a 2 stroke blender with light bulbs in it.
something to take in mind unlike what Alax7 first said is that his Gen II has 2.25" piping stock whereas our Gen I have only 2.00" piping...so it is best to replace the pipes right after the cats. I for one have stainless steel straight pipes from the back of the cats to my magnaflow mufflers and then magnaflow tips. sounds very nice and even in hard or uphill acceleration, it's so loud ppl behind me start driving slower to allow a bigger gap
plus upping from 2.00" piping to 2.25" piping will grant you more power.
My '02 V-8 came with 2.25 pipes---measured at the time I installed a Magnaflow cat-back system.
KS