Lux
Dedicated LVC Member
I've been around quite a few different exhaust setups on the Mark VIII's but none like this. I'm upgrading my exhaust to 2.5" stainless and want to see if anyone is running this setup.
For one day I had an x pipe (in place of 3rd cat) and straight pipes on my 97LSC, it was the most obnoxious fart canny rice sounding POS that i've ever heard. Lasted one day.
I got a pair of LMS mufflers for the rear and it really quieted it down giving it a great sound but I am sick of the grand theft auto sh!t cans hanging out of the rear of my car. Yes, I can get mufflers installed so I would not see them as much out of the rear but I would like to really clean up the tail out back with straight pipes only or dumps.
I've heard a 97 base (single y pipe) sounds GREAT with no mufflers out the back and most guys that run straight pipes only do not have dual exhaust, if they do they have the 3rd cat in place not removed.
I have been in DLF's car with Kooks, magnaflow X mid muffler, 2 magnaflow rears and that is a GREAT sounding car. Resembles my current setup but much healthier and throatier, as it should be. Yet quiet while cruising.
The LMS exhaust, dual x pipes to double rear mufflers also sounds great and that is more of the sound I am going for, partly in reason for having some gargle and popping in the exhaust under high rpm deceleration. However as mentioned earlier, i do not want those mufflers hanging out back, i'd like to clean it up, lose weight, and save money if possible, that is the least of my concerns however, but would be nice. I only want to make one trip to the exhaust shop, order the parts, have it put on and be done.
I'm thinking of running kooks with 2.5" dual exhaust, high flow cats, to an x pipe, immediately after a single magnaflow x muffler, then straight tubing the rest of they way out to tips or dumps.
It will mimic the LMS exhaust with the dual x, yet incorpate an x muffler into the mix.
OR
I could also run two dual x magnaflow mufflers back to back then out to straight pipes. That way i can still run two mufflers to quiet down the raspy fart can sound, i still get the dual xpipe and i lose "junk" out at the rear
Every little thing on these cars affects the exhaust note, from the pipe sizing to the muffler location/quanity, use of resonators, cats, or x pipes and the location of these items. I only want to do the exhaust one time and have the pipes cut once.
So are any of you running dual exhaust, with or without kooks, to a single MID muffler, whether it be an x muffler or not, with or without an x pipe, and straight piped all the way out the tail?
Thanks in advance
For one day I had an x pipe (in place of 3rd cat) and straight pipes on my 97LSC, it was the most obnoxious fart canny rice sounding POS that i've ever heard. Lasted one day.
I got a pair of LMS mufflers for the rear and it really quieted it down giving it a great sound but I am sick of the grand theft auto sh!t cans hanging out of the rear of my car. Yes, I can get mufflers installed so I would not see them as much out of the rear but I would like to really clean up the tail out back with straight pipes only or dumps.
I've heard a 97 base (single y pipe) sounds GREAT with no mufflers out the back and most guys that run straight pipes only do not have dual exhaust, if they do they have the 3rd cat in place not removed.
I have been in DLF's car with Kooks, magnaflow X mid muffler, 2 magnaflow rears and that is a GREAT sounding car. Resembles my current setup but much healthier and throatier, as it should be. Yet quiet while cruising.
The LMS exhaust, dual x pipes to double rear mufflers also sounds great and that is more of the sound I am going for, partly in reason for having some gargle and popping in the exhaust under high rpm deceleration. However as mentioned earlier, i do not want those mufflers hanging out back, i'd like to clean it up, lose weight, and save money if possible, that is the least of my concerns however, but would be nice. I only want to make one trip to the exhaust shop, order the parts, have it put on and be done.
I'm thinking of running kooks with 2.5" dual exhaust, high flow cats, to an x pipe, immediately after a single magnaflow x muffler, then straight tubing the rest of they way out to tips or dumps.
It will mimic the LMS exhaust with the dual x, yet incorpate an x muffler into the mix.
OR
I could also run two dual x magnaflow mufflers back to back then out to straight pipes. That way i can still run two mufflers to quiet down the raspy fart can sound, i still get the dual xpipe and i lose "junk" out at the rear
Every little thing on these cars affects the exhaust note, from the pipe sizing to the muffler location/quanity, use of resonators, cats, or x pipes and the location of these items. I only want to do the exhaust one time and have the pipes cut once.
So are any of you running dual exhaust, with or without kooks, to a single MID muffler, whether it be an x muffler or not, with or without an x pipe, and straight piped all the way out the tail?
Thanks in advance
