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Originally Posted by Firebird67dude
Mine is liek that. its not asloud as the one with the puipe thru it was but i have a much better tone out of it.
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I have cats on my car that are gutted. After the "brick material" came loose inside the shell and rattled I just pulled down the y-pipe, cut it at the cat, broke the brick material up let it fall out and then did the same to the good cat. Welded it all back up and bolted it back up without a pipe through it. Sounds fine to me, it is a little raspy, but not horrible. In fact I don't really think its that noticeable. But my memory is kinda shot.
Right now, I have it dumping at the end of the bullet muffler plumbed into my intermediate pipe because my electric cut-out died so i just took it off and now the car sounds really good and it screams from 2500 to 6200 when the big yellow light says shift.....It is a little on the loud side at full throttle, but no worse that anything else on the road (ricers/harleys with drag pipes/hot rodded diesel trucks, etc.) and there is a bit of drone in sixth gear on the highway, but it's a trade off I like. If the cutout was working and I was making use of the full exhaust system, you would not suspect anything and the sound would be near stock.
Your car will smell if you gut the cats....Kinda like old school muscle cars. There will a gas odor, so don't be surprised.
Chris