give some advice on exhaust

[DigitalGhost]

So I need a new exstem pretty soon, and I could use some advice on what works best for you guys. I wanted to get a bassani system, but I can never find any pictures of what they look like and I sure as hell am not buying an exhaust system I have never seen.

Anyone have any advice on what I should get? What do you have on your stang, how does it sound, and what does it look like?
1990 LX 5.0

 

[Aryan15]

As far as mufflers go , flowmasters(with pipes) sound the coolest to me.

 

[90mustangGT]

To start out, get Longtube headers. A system might sound real good with shorties, but not as good as with LT's.

H/X/ Pro-chamber, they all sound good in the right combo. O/R only, your car just won't sound that good through cats.

Mufflers, Flows are tried and true, but there are so many other options.

 

[SteedaGT9150]

magnaflow

 

[U2SLO450]

well you can never go wrong with the classic original 40s and off road h.

 

[DigitalGhost]

Well I have a set of flows now, which don't sound that bad, but they have a really bad drone at 2k rpms. Not only that they're ugly as sin.

Anyone have any experience with PYPES?

 

[strtrcr50]

bbk shorties, pypes catted x and violator catback here. sounds good. pain in the ass to put in, but pypes has redesigned their catback so it shouldn't be bad now.

 

[Darkwriter77]

Pypes Violators. Pypes Violators. Pypes Violators. C'mon, say it with me. Pypes Violators. Pypes Violators...

 

[FrankenStang]

Pypes Violators. Pypes Violators. Pypes Violators. C'mon, say it with me. Pypes Violators. Pypes Violators...

PYPES VIOLATORS FTW.

And I'm not just saying that either....

I'm in LOVE with the sound of your Notch. We were talking last night about the exhaust on my Capri, well, I've decided that when I DO get a new catback (Flowmaster ftl. Sounds decent but fits like ****) I definitely want what you have.

 

[CRASH7772]

This might help some if your modded at all or plan to....

MUFFLER SHOOTOUT:

Results based on 5.0 Mustang Magazine December 2002 issue (page 55). Test car is a ’90 Coupe with 370 HP and 11 second potential. A number of 66 pulls were made to compile this information. Where does your muffler stack up?

The results in HP order:

1.Flowtech Warlock (open) 374.2 hp/ 333.1 tq
2.Bassani Real Street 373.7 hp/ 333.8 tq
3.Hooker Maxflow 373.5 hp/ 333 tq
4.Borla XS 373.3 hp/ 332.6 tq
5.Magnaflow 372.8 / 332.5 tq
6.MAC 372.3 hp / 331.5 tq
7.Flowtech Afterburner 372.3 hp/ 330.1 tq
8.Hooker Aerochamber 372.1 hp/ 330.4 tq
9.Bassani 372 hp/ 333.5 tq
10.Spintech 371.6 hp/ 332.2 tq
11.Edelbrock Performer RPM 370.9 hp / 331.3 tq
12.Borla XR1 370 hp/ 334 tq
13.Flowtech Terminator 369.5 hp / 331.3 tq
14.Dynomax Ultra Flo 369.4 / 333.2 tq
15.Flowmaster 369.4 hp / 331.8 tq
16.Flowtech Warlock 366.3 hp / 325.3 tq
17.No muffs 365.2 hp / 330.1 tq

Sound Off in Quietest to Loudest (Decibels):

1.Borla XS, 80db at idle, 90db at 2,000 rpm, 110db at WOT.
2.Hooker Maxflow, 80db at idle, 90db at 2,000 rpm, 120db at WOT.
3.Magnaflow, 82db at idle, 91 at 2,000 rpm, 114db at WOT.
4.Flowmaster, 82db at idle, 93 at 2,000 rpm, 115db at WOT.
5.Flowtech Warlock, 83db at idle, 92 at 2,000 rpm, 112db at WOT.
6.Dynomax UltraFlo, 83db at idle, 94 at 2,000 rpm, 113db at WOT.
7.Borla XR1, 83db at idle, 96db at 2,000 rpm, 118db at WOT.
8.Bassani Street, 83db at idle, 96db at 2,000 rpm, 120db at WOT.
9.Edelbrock RPM, 84db at idle, 93db at 2,000 rpm, 118db at WOT.
10.Bassani Real Street, 84db at idle, 96db at 2,000 rpm, MAX. (120+db).
11.Flowtech Afterburner, 86db at idle, 94db at 2,000 rpm, 115db at WOT.
12.Flowtech Terminator, 86db at idle, 94db at 2,000 rpm, 119db at WOT.
13.Hooker Aerochamber, 87db at idle, 94db at 2,000 rpm, 114db at WOT.
14.SpinTech, 87db at idle, 97db at 2,000 rpm, 116db at WOT.
15.MAC, 87db at idle, 98db at 2,000 rpm, 119db at WOT.
16.No Muffler, 91db at idle, 103db at 2,000 rpm, MAX. (120+db).

I went with Magnaflow myself.....

 

[25thmustang]

You will NOT be disappointed with the Bassani set up, and I dont even have Bassanis (yet)!

 

[DigitalGhost]

I've heard that pypes violator catback sounds good before, so I may give that a shot. Anyone have pics of what their pypes setup looks like?

 

[Paul Perreca]

advice... buy ur system in peices, its cheaper - i bought my tailpipes seperately from my mufflers and my h pipe, and my mid pipes - from the HEADS back, headers and all, i spent less money than buying a bassani system - i used flowmaster tail pipes and mid pipes, spintech prostreet mufflers, offroad H, and mac headers - and i did the math back when i remembered how much they all cost, and it came out less than a cat back -

 

[DigitalGhost]

advice... buy ur system in peices, its cheaper - i bought my tailpipes seperately from my mufflers and my h pipe, and my mid pipes - from the HEADS back, headers and all, i spent less money than buying a bassani system - i used flowmaster tail pipes and mid pipes, spintech prostreet mufflers, offroad H, and mac headers - and i did the math back when i remembered how much they all cost, and it came out less than a cat back -

Where did you get most of your stuff?

 

[Darkwriter77]

I could repost pics of mine, but it's not a Pypes cat-back, per se. It's a Dynomax cat-back with the mufflers swapped out for the ORIGINAL design Pypes Violator mufflers (before they shortened them and made them in stainless - got 'em at WFC9 for $80 a pair). But then again, the look should be about the same, really, since they use stainless tailpipes, as well. Peek in My Garage, I think there's a couple of slightly larger pics in there...

I think I still have a video or two of my exhaust on my Myspace page, too. I need to get around to making/posting some new stuff, one of these days - video/audio of inside, outside, startup, idle, driveby, etc. ...

 

[DigitalGhost]

Well one of the things I'm worried about with the cat back systems I've seen is that none of them look like the polished tips go back far enough. I want to see nothing but a perfectly straight polished exhaust pipe coming back from from behind the tires. (just like the ones you have Darkwriter)

I don't want to end up with anything remotely close to my current pipes, which have 6in polished tips that look like *****. I'll edit and post a picture soon.

 

[DigitalGhost]

Okay so I just went to the store and back, and I officially HATE those tailpipes. One rattles against the gas tank or the bumper cover I'm not sure which, but it's annoying as hell.

Please someone give me a pic or two of their pypes exhaust so I can figure out which one to get and finally rid my mustang of this ugly (and noisy) freakin' exhaust!

 

[MrStang123]

Anyone have any good video clips of the violators?

 

[It's a 5_0 HO]

Here is the sound clips from their website just scroll down to the violators and click clip1 or clip 2 im getting a set of these too... damn they sound bad ass

http://www.pypesexhaust.com/mufflers.html

 

[It's a 5_0 HO]

i will give u their site. they have a saleen fox convert with the whole pypes system done. Just scroll down to the white fox its a ways down there but it has full under body pics of the system.

Here you go
http://pypesexhaust.com/pictures.html