Anyone ever tried Stright pipes on there SHO?

[802SHO]

Picked the car up last night from the Exhaust Shop.  It sounds awesome!  Louder ✔ but honestly its quiter than my old Audi A6 4.2 custom exhaust I had.  To me it has a deeper tone than a raspy one.  Only complaint I have is they did not remove my 3rd .  A bit dismayed really mostly bc they never once mentioned that they felt they legally could not remove it.  Ive been very specific about removing 3rd cat and resonator...in conversation as well as emails.  Only after it was done that I saw the 3rd cat still there that he said he couldn't legally remove it.  So it's 2.5" stainless catless downpipes to 3rd cat to 2.5 stainless custom xpipe and straight out stainless pipe all throughout to stainless quad 4" tips.  Someone tell me the ugly 3rd isnt restrictive ...clearly my goal was least restricitve

Sound clip coming soon.  Wanted to clean it up but its not a detail contest...so probably just do the sound clip as it is.

Teaser Pic!!!

 

[Jordan]

Picked the car up last night from the Exhaust Shop.  It sounds awesome!  Louder ✔ but honestly its quiter than my old Audi A6 4.2 custom exhaust I had.  To me it has a deeper tone than a raspy one.  Only complaint I have is they did not remove my 3rd .  A bit dismayed really mostly bc they never once mentioned that they felt they legally could not remove it.  Ive been very specific about removing 3rd cat and resonator...in conversation as well as emails.  Only after it was done that I saw the 3rd cat still there that he said he couldn't legally remove it.  So it's 2.5" stainless catless downpipes to 3rd cat to 2.5 stainless custom xpipe and straight out stainless pipe all throughout to stainless quad 4" tips.  Someone tell me the ugly 3rd isnt restrictive ...clearly my goal was least restricitve

Sound clip coming soon.  Wanted to clean it up but its not a detail contest...so probably just do the sound clip as it is.

Teaser Pic!!!

You can cut the third cat fairly easily if you wanted to. Unbolt the exhaust and jam a piece of like rebar or a giant pry bar in there and it'll break up pretty easily. However I feel like that third cat is resonating it a hair so it will probably sound worse without it. However the third cat is 2.25" so you are going 2.5" to 2.25" to 2.5" again

 

[802SHO]

I'm really not happy with the way the shop owner handled the 3rd cat.  He literally never said anything about NOT being able to do it...or NOT feeling comfortable to do it.  It was done and he said..I took pics check this out.  I'm looking at the pics and I asked him...is that the 3rd cat?  Yes I cant legally remove that, federal law.  ????????????  Really?  Yes.  Its not restrictive, if you did a before and adtwr dyno it wouldnt be anything.  If it came in and it never had one, well thats different. 

??????? Uhm if you would have communicated that I would have made sure it didnt.  I told him everything I wanted to do to the exhaust weeks in advance.  Never said a word about the cat. 

After the money spent right now I'm done with it for now.  I'll have my friend who did my original muffler deletes cut it out and weld some straight 2.5" stainless in its place sometime soon.  I'm happy with everything they did..its what they didnt do that I'm very displeased about and bc there was no communication. 

 

[802SHO]

Cold Start and some revs


https://youtu.be/IVDPcotk4dI

 

[18SHO]

Thank you guys for the input.  I will be going with an xpipe!

Thought I might add this. This is full 2.5" with an x pipe. So it's what you should expect it to look like in the end. This is with pie cuts though.

Love that setup, I'll be going with this x pipe! Did you mount the x pipe right where there he 3rd cat was or where the resonator was?
Also what mufflers are those ? MRT?

 

[Jordan]

Thank you guys for the input.  I will be going with an xpipe!

Thought I might add this. This is full 2.5" with an x pipe. So it's what you should expect it to look like in the end. This is with pie cuts though.

Love that setup, I'll be going with this x pipe! Did you mount the x pipe right where there he 3rd cat was or where the resonator was?
Also what mufflers are those ? MRT?

X pipe mounted basically where the third cat is and vibrant resonators

 

[18SHO]

Thank you guys for the input.  I will be going with an xpipe!

Thought I might add this. This is full 2.5" with an x pipe. So it's what you should expect it to look like in the end. This is with pie cuts though.

Love that setup, I'll be going with this x pipe! Did you mount the x pipe right where there he 3rd cat was or where the resonator was?
Also what mufflers are those ? MRT?

X pipe mounted basically where the third cat is and vibrant resonators

Very nice, any sound clips of the car? Gotta sound real good

 

[Jordan]

https://youtu.be/8Ecvw57OIx0 here is this set up in action

 

[18SHO]

https://youtu.be/8Ecvw57OIx0 here is this set up in action

You think if I have stock downpipes but setup past that like your running it's loud enough without any drone?

 

[Jordan]

With the catted downpipes it'll be a little bit more muffled. Honestly I think it would sound good. My biggest complaint about going to catless downpipes is it made it more prone to some rasp.

 

[802SHO]

With the catted downpipes it'll be a little bit more muffled. Honestly I think it would sound good. My biggest complaint about going to catless downpipes is it made it more prone to some rasp.

For drone I don't even consider it a problem.  I've owned a car before with some serious drone...this is nothing.  And I get some rasp but honestly not a whole lot of that either.

https://youtu.be/IVDPcotk4dI

 

[Jordan]

With the catted downpipes it'll be a little bit more muffled. Honestly I think it would sound good. My biggest complaint about going to catless downpipes is it made it more prone to some rasp.

For drone I don't even consider it a problem.  I've owned a car before with some serious drone...this is nothing.  And I get some rasp but honestly not a whole lot of that either.

https://youtu.be/IVDPcotk4dI

I drove 2 hours one way to the drag strip with open downpipes on the taurus. Never going to happen again. Learned my lesson

 

[802SHO]

With the catted downpipes it'll be a little bit more muffled. Honestly I think it would sound good. My biggest complaint about going to catless downpipes is it made it more prone to some rasp.

For drone I don't even consider it a problem.  I've owned a car before with some serious drone...this is nothing.  And I get some rasp but honestly not a whole lot of that either.

https://youtu.be/IVDPcotk4dI

I drove 2 hours one way to the drag strip with open downpipes on the taurus. Never going to happen again. Learned my lesson

I can only imagine how loud that was lol I'll take your word and not try that. 

 

[Jordan]

With the catted downpipes it'll be a little bit more muffled. Honestly I think it would sound good. My biggest complaint about going to catless downpipes is it made it more prone to some rasp.

For drone I don't even consider it a problem.  I've owned a car before with some serious drone...this is nothing.  And I get some rasp but honestly not a whole lot of that either.

https://youtu.be/IVDPcotk4dI

I drove 2 hours one way to the drag strip with open downpipes on the taurus. Never going to happen again. Learned my lesson

I can only imagine how loud that was lol I'll take your word and not try that.

Well the first two hours was very loud and I stuffed napkins in my ears. The two hours back I contemplated totalling out the SHO as that seemed like a good plan of action at the time LOL

 

[802SHO]

With the catted downpipes it'll be a little bit more muffled. Honestly I think it would sound good. My biggest complaint about going to catless downpipes is it made it more prone to some rasp.

For drone I don't even consider it a problem.  I've owned a car before with some serious drone...this is nothing.  And I get some rasp but honestly not a whole lot of that either.

https://youtu.be/IVDPcotk4dI

I drove 2 hours one way to the drag strip with open downpipes on the taurus. Never going to happen again. Learned my lesson

I can only imagine how loud that was lol I'll take your word and not try that.

Well the first two hours was very loud and I stuffed napkins in my ears. The two hours back I contemplated totalling out the SHO as that seemed like a good plan of action at the time LOL

Napkins in your ears!!    hahaha Holy $$$$!  That's loud!  I'm glad you didn't swerve off the road buddy

 

[Jordan]

What I get for trying to run a faster drag strip time LOL. Next time I will just pull it off at the strip bahaha