v6 with straight pipes?

IMO I think it'll just be loud and obnoxious! Plus you'll just get laughed at and embarrassed by guys in faster cars...

No mufflers? Ehhhh...

I don't think the v6 engine is meant to run well if you do not have the sides balanced (X pipe, H pipe, something like that where the pressure balances out). I could be wrong, but I am pretty sure I remember reading this a while back when looking into the v6 engines. You could ditch the muffler(s) though.

rushtrader said:

I don't think the v6 engine is meant to run well if you do not have the sides balanced (X pipe, H pipe, something like that where the pressure balances out). I could be wrong, but I am pretty sure I remember reading this a while back when looking into the v6 engines. You could ditch the muffler(s) though.

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Our sixxers are even firing engines. Straight pipes are a great choice for us.

OK, nevermind then. I'll happily defer to you. Sorry.

Divorced duals with mufflers are fine.

Most people say straight pipes and mean no mufflers, which will sound like A$$!

I have run cars without mufflers, or pipes, before

It's fun for a day or two, and you certainly can drown out any other car, freight train or super stereo! There is some special warm feeling feeling driving a car without any noise control at all :yes

But is gets real old pretty fast... Sort of like driving with the horn on all the time... You can't really drive it hard in normal traffic either. You might be the loudest, but you are also the lightest on the peddle... Now, with all the other drivers having cell phones, the cops are not far off either. Mine were all big V-8s, but the big 6s are prolly just as loud.

If your working on the car anyway, give it a try and enjoy for awhile. But you will be the very first to finally say "no". It might be funky with the computer controlled cars too. All mine were carbureted non-computer old timers that did not care.

If for nothing else, just so you can say, "been there, done that..."

Gandolf

True story our cars are louder with open headers than GT's with open headers.

i think i'll take the muffler off this saturday and run it all weekend just to see how i like it. i'm sure it wont be louder than the ricers i hear runnin around with fart cannons and such.

Our cars are louder because we have more "rasp" then muscle tone.IMO,i ran no exhaust at all only my ,ac longtubes and it was fun until i got to the muffler man lolz

iammclovin804 said:

i think i'll take the muffler off this saturday and run it all weekend just to see how i like it. i'm sure it wont be louder than the ricers i hear runnin around with fart cannons and such.

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click my cam video, thats my car with cutouts open

see that sounds pretty awesome. i doubt i could get away with running that all the time though. did you have the cats on for that?

iammclovin804 said:

see that sounds pretty awesome. i doubt i could get away with running that all the time though. did you have the cats on for that?

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Cats, what are cats?
I haven't had cats on my car since I learned how to remove them. But yeah the sound was interesting to say the least. You could always tell the old guys at the gas station "boy I remember when a v8 used to smell and sound like that..." And then they would ask me what form of ford big block and 3/4 race cam was i running

haha awesome. i was looking at some other videos and most of them really dont sound much louder or different than running dual flowmasters.

will cats make the sound like deeper and more rumbly or would no cats do that better? and how much torque would you lose?

clidefr0g said:

will cats make the sound like deeper and more rumbly or would no cats do that better? and how much torque would you lose?

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from what i've read up on, the cats restrict the flow of exhaust. so you could take them off and it would sound a whole lot more loud. i think...

Correct. Depending on the rest of your exhaust system that may be a loud, raspiness, or, more preferably, a loud, throaty sounds. LT headers and something like Flow 40's will give you the closest to that. Most people who upgrade exhaust go catless as long as they don't have to pass emissions.

goren813 said:

Correct. Depending on the rest of your exhaust system that may be a loud, raspiness, or, more preferably, a loud, throaty sounds. LT headers and something like Flow 40's will give you the closest to that. Most people who upgrade exhaust go catless as long as they don't have to pass emissions.

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i would take the cats off but i think im gonna get stationed in california when i get out of boot camp so i dont wanna mess with that now. if i took the cats off and ran it straight, wouldn't that hurt the engine? i read somewhere that taking off the cats causes the engine to lose backpressure (not sure what that is)