NORTON98

Hello im new to this forum,
I just bought a 98 gt mustang and as I understand it exhaust should be your first mod. Im planning on taking my stang to the local muffler shop and having headers(LT), H pipe, hi flow cats and mufflers, and new tubing. I wanted to know if all this can be done on a 1500 dollar budget. My local muffler shop has nice prices too. Also from what I heard X pipes are illegal or are the catted ones ok.

PS: im pretty set on BBK but im open to other brands

sprostang

You wont get all of that done for $1500. You should do just a catback and gears first. You will notice a better gain with the gears. X pipes arent illegal for street as long as they are catted.

2000GT4.6

Have you looked into doing a PI swap? 1500 might get you there if you by the parts used and find a decent mustang only shop.

MustangChris04

for 1500 I was able to get full exhaust.

500 for headers, 350 for exhaust and 150 for h pipe. I then had 500 for labor and thats exactly what it costed...

karmstrong_2

I think exhaust is a great first mod, but a lot of people are going to tell you to go with gears first. You'll probably see better gains with gears. With that being said if you do go with exhaust you're on the right track. Definitely go with LT headers because Shorties are worthless. If you are set on BBK, I would rethink that at least for the mid-pipe. BBK mid-pipes are VERY raspy (my buddy had one on his 98 GT and I thought it was really obnoxious). Personally I am looking to Bassani or Magnaflow for my x-pipe and I would DEFINITELY reccomend getting a catted x. One because it is still legal and two, they just sound better in my opinion. For the cat-back, I don't know much about BBK but I have Magnaflow and I love it. Everyone has their own opinion about the exhaust though, brands that will come up a lot are SLP, Magnaflow, and Flowmasters. If you are interested at all in saving some money on labor costs, the x-pipe, and cat-back are relatively easy projects to take on yourself. Just cut out the old and bolt in the new. Personally I would pay to have the headers installed because that isn't quite so easy. Those are just a few thought, and good luck.

meebix

You can get the parts for a full exhaust and labor for about $1500-1600.

2000GT4.6

what does a pi swap run though?

meebix

From what Ive heard, it would be about $1500, so theoretically same as it would cost for exhaust, give or take, so it depends on what he wanted to do.

2000GT4.6

the PI swap would be 10x better on his car than full exhaust.

Norton, you should look into this. Freshens the engine and you have more power than a stock 99-04. Plus, if you do the exhaust later on you will pick up even more power.

gt96stang

$1500 will just buy you all the parts you need for the swap... The labor is what kills people because they are not usually able to perform something like this on their own.

Plus, if the heads are coming off, you would be an idiot not to swap in some longtubes..