O/R midpipes, how much do they really help?
06-21-2008, 09:43 AM
#11
RE: O/R midpipes, how much do they really help?
Well, you people certainly put a lot more doubt in my head that was already there...
I will be running the midpipe with the stock mufflers, I don't have the money for different mufflers right now. After reading a few of these posts, my major concern is the fumes. How bad will it be?
I will be running the midpipe with the stock mufflers, I don't have the money for different mufflers right now. After reading a few of these posts, my major concern is the fumes. How bad will it be?
06-21-2008, 11:28 AM
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RE: O/R midpipes, how much do they really help?
I put the pypes o/r H from Brenspeed on my car, and love it. The sound is awsome with stock muffs. I had planned on getting mufflers for the car, but after the H I said no way. I get compliments on the sound all the time. I dunno about the X, but think about the H this way. It is only $180 which is cheaper than any mufflers. Mufflers add no HP, and start at about $250. So if you go with the H pipe you get better sound + a claimed HP increase, and you don't need mufflers. If you go X you have to have some one weld it up permanent + you need mufflers, but you get slightly more HP. As for my own sotp dyno on the H. . . . hard to say, but the sound made me smile. O yeah, and the H is an easy install.
Fumes, no. Enviroment, what ever (really if you are so enviromentally concerned why the hell did you buy a V8?). If it makes you sleep better at night smile about the .5 mpg you will gain. Acid rain mu hahaha.
06-21-2008, 02:56 PM
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RE: O/R midpipes, how much do they really help?
Make sure you get your car tuned with your off road x. Getting some long tubes headers would be a nice idea. Throw both of those on and toss it on the dyno.
06-21-2008, 04:23 PM
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RE: O/R midpipes, how much do they really help?
ORIGINAL: blackS197
Make sure you get your car tuned with your off road x. Getting some long tubes headers would be a nice idea. Throw both of those on and toss it on the dyno.
Make sure you get your car tuned with your off road x. Getting some long tubes headers would be a nice idea. Throw both of those on and toss it on the dyno.
06-21-2008, 07:48 PM
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RE: O/R midpipes, how much do they really help?
ORIGINAL: acascianelli
Is there anything I should be concerned/aware of with driving with an O/R pipe through the winter?
Is there anything I should be concerned/aware of with driving with an O/R pipe through the winter?
Nothing special about winter driving. I found the fumes to be a minor annoyance the first week. Now I don't even notice it unless the car's idleing and I'm outside in the back.
You're definately not gonna like the sound of the off road pipe with stock mufflers. Trust me, any chambered muffler will sound terrible. You might want to wait until you get a set of straight through mufflers before you install the x.
06-22-2008, 11:26 PM
#18
RE: O/R midpipes, how much do they really help?
http://youtube.com/watch?v=pClp0l-aN2E
Is this what it will sound like? It doesn't sound bad at all in that video. I know that Youtube video's can hardly translate the actual sound but still...
Is this what it will sound like? It doesn't sound bad at all in that video. I know that Youtube video's can hardly translate the actual sound but still...
06-23-2008, 01:27 AM
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RE: O/R midpipes, how much do they really help?
ORIGINAL: fireguyty
I put the pypes o/r H from Brenspeed on my car, and love it. The sound is awsome with stock muffs. I had planned on getting mufflers for the car, but after the H I said no way. I get compliments on the sound all the time. I dunno about the X, but think about the H this way. It is only $180 which is cheaper than any mufflers. Mufflers add no HP, and start at about $250. So if you go with the H pipe you get better sound + a claimed HP increase, and you don't need mufflers. If you go X you have to have some one weld it up permanent + you need mufflers, but you get slightly more HP. As for my own sotp dyno on the H. . . . hard to say, but the sound made me smile. O yeah, and the H is an easy install.
Fumes, no. Enviroment, what ever (really if you are so enviromentally concerned why the hell did you buy a V8?). If it makes you sleep better at night smile about the .5 mpg you will gain. Acid rain mu hahaha.
I put the pypes o/r H from Brenspeed on my car, and love it. The sound is awsome with stock muffs. I had planned on getting mufflers for the car, but after the H I said no way. I get compliments on the sound all the time. I dunno about the X, but think about the H this way. It is only $180 which is cheaper than any mufflers. Mufflers add no HP, and start at about $250. So if you go with the H pipe you get better sound + a claimed HP increase, and you don't need mufflers. If you go X you have to have some one weld it up permanent + you need mufflers, but you get slightly more HP. As for my own sotp dyno on the H. . . . hard to say, but the sound made me smile. O yeah, and the H is an easy install.
Fumes, no. Enviroment, what ever (really if you are so enviromentally concerned why the hell did you buy a V8?). If it makes you sleep better at night smile about the .5 mpg you will gain. Acid rain mu hahaha.
06-23-2008, 01:30 AM
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RE: O/R midpipes, how much do they really help?
While were on the topic of O/Rs. I have my bassani X installed with the cats on. Love the sound, can't complain about the performance that I felt in the sotp dyno. How much would throwing the cat delete pipes help? I want to know performance/mileage gains. I just went on a cruise for 130 mile round trip and before that had 60 miles where I was on the pedal all around town... MPG=22.97. BOOYAH