Straight Pipes

[dak360rt]

Im thinking of just doing straight pipes on my car for the time being, until i can figure out what exhaust i want and until i can scrape up the cash for it.

I kinda like the stealthiness of the non-existant exhaust note, but i want more grunt and i am doing piggies in the near future and would like to free up those extra 2+ ponies.

So in an effort to stay somewhat quieter i think im only going to delete one resonator and then reassess the situation and maybe hack off the 2nd one if i feel it needs to be louder or whatever.

Basically i dont want drone, so will straight pipes drone? and if i were to cut off only one muffler should i leave the mid pipe muffler there to eliminate drone?

Thanks for the help as always
Marty

[Sleeeper X]

Umm... straight pipes mean, no mufflers, cats or resonators.... so yes. Straight pipes WILL drone

[BlkdoutS4]

if your just going to cut one muffler out, leave the center one and cut out the rear one. i did this with my SSAC and have no drone and is somewhat loud at WOT.

[RogueStatus]

Umm... straight pipes mean, no mufflers, cats or resonators.... so yes. Straight pipes WILL drone

not true. mine dont drone... 3" catless DPs to two 2.25" straight pipes.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YyuTNU2tTaQ

[jukesandz]

not true. mine dont drone... 3" catless DPs to two 2.25" straight pipes.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YyuTNU2tTaQ

Dang that sounds good.

I started up my car with no exhaust a couple days ago. It was awesome, but I don't think I could deal with the loudness all the time...maybe most. Little video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QnU1QZlWguA

[AielloS4]

2.5" dual straight pipes>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=25BZMR8ycmI

[espo4442]

2.5" dual straight pipes>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=25BZMR8ycmI

No resonators at all?

Any vids pulling away?

[RogueStatus]

No resonators at all?

Any vids pulling away?

here ya go
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KCfig4CRMeI

straight pipes all day

[jesterekim]

Damn, I want straight pipes w/ piggies now.

[RogueStatus]

i get dirty looks from everyone

[dak360rt]

I know straight pipes mean no mufflers at all, but like I said I'm not sure if that would be louder than what I want, kinda like the stealth.

Sounds like if I want more agressive with no drone keep the mid pipe

Thanks

And if that doesn't do, hack em both off.


What would I be looking at price wise for dual 2.5" from the cats??

[RogueStatus]

dual 2.5" straight pipes? i was quoted $500 and also told it couldnt be done by some places haha which is just them being lazy

[HOFFY11]

if your car doesn not have rediculous power..your gonna sound like a honda civic with a 6 inch exhasut tip..and we dont want that now do we?

[RogueStatus]

if your car doesn not have rediculous power..your gonna sound like a honda civic with a 6 inch exhasut tip..and we dont want that now do we?

not true. we drive Audis not Hondas.

youre telling me the cars in the videos above sound like this?:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vW_1JdhP8Ko

[will175]

^^^Agree it sounds good. When I had mine I was only stage 2 but it sounded sick. Very aggressive.

[So_NAudi]

keep you stock exhaust as is, and put electric cutouts right after the DP's... thats what im doing :D

[Sleeeper X]

keep you stock exhaust as is, and put electric cutouts right after the DP's... thats what im doing :D

then you think.... well 400 for the cutouts + 200 to have em installed could get me.....

1 an SSAC full turbo back exhaust.
2. HP Plus pads
3. ecs 2 piece rotors
4. used Ecodes
5. Bilstin Shocks
6. H&R springs
7. a used set of rims.......

then you decide against getting cutouts...... I was in the same boat not too long ago.

[will175]

I think like that all the time, best bang for the buck.lol. I plan on doing cut outs on my SSAC exhaust.

[espo4442]

not true. we drive Audis not Hondas.

youre telling me the cars in the videos above sound like this?:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vW_1JdhP8Ko

You have any video's of outside with standing revs? I'm putting my dual 2.5 together soon, but I'm prob going with dynomax resonators.

[Boosted-S4]

straight pipes= bye bye o2 sensors
be ready to change them often!

[Faceman]

straight pipes= bye bye o2 sensors
be ready to change them often!

Wrong.

[RogueStatus]

i love when people assume

[Boosted-S4]

i aint assuming my friend!!! 2 of my friends who own s4 went straight pipes and their o2 kept on going>>after putting bacck the cats problem solved!!! i dont think it was coincidence..instead why not go high flow cats?

[dak360rt]

I'm doing piggie pipes so I will still have the main cats, I'm just talking about the portion after the cats

[RogueStatus]

ive had no problems,havent heard of any either. who needs cats anyway?

[Das General]

i aint assuming my friend!!! 2 of my friends who own s4 went straight pipes and their o2 kept on going>>after putting bacck the cats problem solved!!! i dont think it was coincidence..instead why not go high flow cats?

Plenty of people have run test pipes without any issues.

Here is quick bit of my old setup, just during start-up and a little bit of load.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDOz7FKX4VM

[will175]

Deb thats sounds just like how mine used to be. I miss it so much. But it is nice to be able to talk normally on the cell phone.

[Militant-Grunt]

Me and Tommy got pulled over for no exhaust last night.. Yeeah straight pipes in a city don't work. I'd be all for cutouts though.

[RogueStatus]

derek it sounds quiet! no baffling back fires like mine kicks out haha

[jukesandz]

Plenty of people have run test pipes without any issues.

Here is quick bit of my old setup, just during start-up and a little bit of load.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDOz7FKX4VM

Is this straight pipes all the way back? It sounds awesome. I wish I went for a spin when I had the exhaust removed. It sounded so bad ass.

[S-Power]

Plenty of people have run test pipes without any issues.

Here is quick bit of my old setup, just during start-up and a little bit of load.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDOz7FKX4VM

Deb what setup were you runnin ?

[S-Power]

if your car doesn not have rediculous power..your gonna sound like a honda civic with a 6 inch exhasut tip..and we dont want that now do we?

300AWHP is no slouch

we are talking about here

[s vier]

Is this straight pipes all the way back? It sounds awesome. I wish I went for a spin when I had the exhaust removed. It sounded so bad ass.

I drove mine like 20 minutes to the exhaust shop and it almost blew out my grey matter. It was beyond ridiculous.

[RogueStatus]

derek (deb) had 3" DPs with a 3" catless all the way back.

[Das General]

Is this straight pipes all the way back? It sounds awesome. I wish I went for a spin when I had the exhaust removed. It sounded so bad ass.

Correct. No pre-cats, no main cats, no mufflers or resonators. Just pipe.

It is actually 2.25 at first as part of the old downpipes are used, then it is filled in with 3" test pipes merging into a single 3".

Kyle. The exhaust backfires a lot. With the new injectors/tune it didn't do it as much at cruising. But during WOT you would get the ridiculously loud backfire and a monster flame.