ok well i guess i should ask this before i get too far along with the dumps. how loud are these compared to a full cat back? most of my driving is in and around town, spending most of the time in the 1100-1700 rpm range, with some highway driving every once in a while. it takes like 25 minutes to get to school, so i'm in the car for a good bit of time sometimes. would the dumps be unbearably loud?

 

Depends on the muffler choice, but its going to be louder in the car with dumps if they are dumped around the back seat area (like most are setup). But I like it and I daily drive my car with off road H-pipe and dumped Mac's. You can run the pipes over the rear axle and dump them before the bumper. A lot like the old 5.0 GT's were setup.

Also pipe size is not going to effect the sound much.

 

alright...i posted the same thing on 3.8mustang and there were a bunch of people that said it was pretty loud inside the car...but i guess if i dumped them around the axle and angled them out like you said it wouldnt be a nuisance? lol i just cant make up my mind, now i think i may just go with like a gt takeoff catback and swap in the mac mufflers

 

probably the best bet.

 

yeah i think thats what im gonna do...theres a pretty big salvage yard in mobile which is like an hour from here so i'll call them and see if they have anything

 

Its up to you man anything is better then stock to me.

 

yeah dude i never realized how quiet the stock was until i was getting something out of my dads truck after i had already started my car...i couldnt believe it

so with a catback it will still be reasonably loud i assume?

 

Even with a catback, the v6 at idle is still going to be pretty quite.

 

gay lol...so other than looks is there any point in upgrading your exhaust then?

 

Im not saying it's always quite lol, just at idle. It sounds a lot louder while cruising and of course at wide open throttle, but not unbearably loud at all like your worried about, still pretty quite at low rpm's though.

 

sorry... i have to make a correction here. it is going to be quiet when at idle. quiet.
and yes... sadly it is quiet at idle. big disappointment.

 

****...yeah I meant QUIET, don't know why I kept spelling it quite.

 

ha i figuredhats what you meant...and o well i dont spend a lot of time sitting around letting it idle anyway

 

bumping this cause i have one more question

how do yall think straight pipes would sound on a v6?

 

It sounds like crap. We started up Teal Beasts v6 when it was procharged with just the long tubes and H-pipe and it was horrible.

 

ah crap...o well the mach's have rolled tips as opposed to gt's having just tips right?
and i'm still planning on mac's so i'll weld them in