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H-pipe | 12 | 30.00% | |
X-pipe | 28 | 70.00% | |
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02-23-2016, 10:18 AM | #15 |
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Love loud..... not going to quiet down my car if it means a piece of mind for my neighbors but cost me happiness with my car
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02-23-2016, 10:23 AM | #16 | |
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Hindsight is 20/20
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02-23-2016, 10:30 AM | #17 |
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I personally prefer the sound of an x-pipe but purposely avoided the resonated x-pipe for the very reason the OP mentioned. I've changed my exhaust setup many times and finally settled on something I really like. I currently have Kooks 2" headers with faux cats (I fabed some straight through resonators that bolt in place of the cats), BBK 2.75" X-pipe which actually replaces the exhaust from behind the cats to in front of the mufflers. My previous setup was Kooks 1 7/8" headers with cats and the Magnaflow regular x-pipe and stock 2.5" exhaust. The new set up has a slightly deeper tone and less rasp and is no louder (actually slightly quieter) which I measured using a decibel meter app.
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02-23-2016, 10:32 AM | #18 | |
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02-23-2016, 11:36 AM | #19 |
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I haven't been back on the dyno after doing the Magnaflow x-pipe but, for what it's worth, my 60' times at the track are the same as before.
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02-23-2016, 09:36 PM | #20 |
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My car is a good bit louder than yours, and I have the xpipe. I do have my fuse to the flaps pulled though. My car was way too loud with headers and no cats. I think it's perfect now with the xpipe, maybe it's the cam, I don't know.
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02-23-2016, 10:22 PM | #21 | |
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And designed for better flow than the cheap ones.
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02-24-2016, 05:25 AM | #22 |
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I noticed the length of the middle portion of the "x" where the two converge is quite a bit longer than others and that's all that I could think. I really do like it, but not sure if I want to justify spending that much for the design and not knowing what the hp/tq curves look like compared to others. Other T304 stainless pipes going for right about $100 give or take a few.
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02-24-2016, 01:14 PM | #23 |
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The benefit of our resonated X's is that they give a deeper tone, and help the guys running aggressive exhaust setups to keep a tolerable volume for daily driving. If you want your car to be louder and don't plan to modify your catback, a non-resonated may work better. We offer 2 different styles:
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02-24-2016, 06:50 PM | #24 | |
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Made from T304? For $100? I doubt it. Just because it's says stainless doesn't mean it's the good stuff.
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02-25-2016, 05:46 AM | #25 |
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Sorry, but you're correct. The one I looked at uses 400 series SS. And let's not turn this into a SS discussion. I'm ok with 400 series, excellent product.
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02-27-2016, 03:54 PM | #26 |
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I just installed Kooks headers with off-road pipes and it's a bit too loud at WOT. Do you have any flyby video clips with the resonated x pipe?
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02-27-2016, 05:20 PM | #27 |
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Magnaflow offers 2 different sizes of resonated x pipes....5x8x18......5x11x22. The larger one really quiets down the car. If you want to keep your car louder without rasp and also give it a deeper tone get the smaller one. I have the tru x on my car with hi flow cats and muffler delete. I'm going with the smaller resonated x pipe in the spring. Imo my car is a little to high pitched with some rasp.
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02-29-2016, 05:41 AM | #28 |
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The rasp is what I wanted to get rid of, and I installed the smaller of the 2 resonated x-pipes. I still feel that it is too quiet. FYI, I'm running 2" ARH, cat delete pipes and NPP.
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