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Originally Posted by OUR BEE
So it looks to me like the J pipe takes the place of having mufflers. Which is going to be louder, but with no drone ? My Magnaflow mufflers don't have drone, but they are not as loud as most of the other exhaust system out there.
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"Kinda".
The SOLO offering of "Muffler" on their catback systems, is the single mid-muffler that has an integral X-pipe design (and some other "magic") inside it. The rear pipes, however, where GM saught to further silence it with a set of "rear can mufflers" ... SOLO decided to have "just stright pipes and shiny cool looking tips". Then some flavors of cars had drone, so the J-pipes were introduced to combat the drone.
So the solo system has the mid muffler (a straight pipe system with no mufflers sounds terrible on most cars!) as the central point, but aft of that, no mufflers, just straight pipes and a device that targets a certain unplesant frequency to keep the permasmile applied and the accellerator pedal applied.
And by the way guys, although I don't own a camaro, I totally understand what some of you are saying with the fuel mileage. While adding SOLO exhaust products to your car is making it somewhat more efficient, your gas mileage goes down because you find yourself always tromping the car to get those wonderful new exhaust sounds to come out in full force. Happens with SOLO G8's too, so don't feel like it's just you. We should start a support group or something, lol.
Hope this helps, fellas.
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--zep