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Old 09-15-2017, 12:58 PM
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To start, I will become an S550 owner on Saturday. I love everything about the car except one thing, the exhaust is horrendous. I've contacted multiple people at Ford and continue to get different answers. I want to put an exhaust on my new S550 ASAP but one person told me I can only do a cat back, and one person said anything short of a full exhaust is fine, and one man said Axle Backs are fine. I don't want to do anything to void my brand new warranty, any answers? Don't mind dropping the extra cash for a catback, but honestly like the axle backs better anyways.
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Old 09-15-2017, 06:44 PM
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You are going to get 40 different opinions on this ranging from horsepower gains to sound and what manufacturer. Who do you believe? When you hear a Mustang you like, stop the guy and ask him about his exhaust. I like Borla, Borla makes Ford Racing's exhaust and you can get it in several different configurations from cat back to axle back, with and without resonator, with or without x-pipe. You can get three different mufflers with 3 different sound levels. It goes on and on. Trust me, you gotta hear for yourself in person before you will be happy with the results. Listening to them on a computer just doesn't do them justice. If you just want a little more sound, go with the axle back. If you want the all out **** off your neighbors and get tickets, get the cat-back resonator delete attack series.
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Old 09-16-2017, 12:01 AM
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I would leave it stock for at least 10,000 miles.

Be sure to save what you take off.

When going to sell it some buyers want it stock. I am one of them.

Congrats on new Mustang. Break it in gently for first 1,000 miles.
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Old 09-16-2017, 11:29 AM
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Originally Posted by movielover40
I would leave it stock for at least 10,000 miles.

Be sure to save what you take off.

When going to sell it some buyers want it stock. I am one of them.

Congrats on new Mustang. Break it in gently for first 1,000 miles.
Word!
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GT500 axle backs from 11-12 Shelby sounds good. Matched to an xpipe still sounds great. All for less than 500 bucks.

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Old 09-18-2017, 07:50 PM
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Originally Posted by darkmach1
GT500 axle backs from 11-12 Shelby sounds good. Matched to an xpipe still sounds great. All for less than 500 bucks.
Will a S197 exhaust fit on a S550 platform?
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Originally Posted by JimC
Will a S197 exhaust fit on a S550 platform?
Cut off hangers on GT500 muffler, weld one new one to match s550.
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Originally Posted by JimC
Will a S197 exhaust fit on a S550 platform?
Will you know if it sounds great to you before you go to all that trouble?
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There's plenty of videos on YouTube. I have a couple as well.
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Originally Posted by darkmach1
There's plenty of videos on YouTube. I have a couple as well.
See my previous post where I indicated that listening to them on the computer doesn't do them justice, at least for me. Personally, I can barely tell the difference when listening to all the different systems from Borla's and Magnaflow's websites. When I first heard the GT350 system on YouTube, I wasn't really all that impressed. Now that I own one and get to listen to it everyday, I really love it and wouldn't change it for nothing.
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