Good Exhaust for 06 V6
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RE: Good Exhaust for 06 V6
ORIGINAL: RedAlertlb
I just installed it last night and i love it the y pipe ok because you can just change it out later. I paid $414 all together shipped from www.rpmoutlet.com
I just installed it last night and i love it the y pipe ok because you can just change it out later. I paid $414 all together shipped from www.rpmoutlet.com
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From: Naperville
RE: Good Exhaust for 06 V6
I went to a dealer today for exhaust and the guy at one place told me Magnaflow is more for european cars and really doesn't sound that good on the mustang. He also told me that it is imposibble to get dual exhaust on the V6, can anyone confirm this. Then I went to a different garage and he told me about a company named V-Tech? My friend told me that Borla and Flowmaster are also good companies for exhaust. Which should I get? I'm looking for a non-ricer mean sounding exhaust with good performance.
Thanks in adavance
Thanks in adavance
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RE: Good Exhaust for 06 V6
ORIGINAL: StupidTodd
I finally made a recording of my exhaust:
http://www.hedkrash.com/Recording1.wav
This is true duals (no X or H crossmember), there are 2 glasspacks midcar, and 2 really long 3.5" tips where the original muffler was that help to resonate the drone everyone complains about.
The recording was made with my cellphone (it's a really good PDA cellphone, but all the same, still just a phone), so the quality isn't great and there's a 'cracklyness' too it that is from the phone and not the exhaust.
The glasspacks didn't sound this good when they were first installed. There was a higher pitched raspyness too them, but that has completely faded away. They just took time to break in.
The exhaust sounds a lot better when it's under load, but I'm not taping my phone under my car and driving it around.
I finally made a recording of my exhaust:
http://www.hedkrash.com/Recording1.wav
This is true duals (no X or H crossmember), there are 2 glasspacks midcar, and 2 really long 3.5" tips where the original muffler was that help to resonate the drone everyone complains about.
The recording was made with my cellphone (it's a really good PDA cellphone, but all the same, still just a phone), so the quality isn't great and there's a 'cracklyness' too it that is from the phone and not the exhaust.
The glasspacks didn't sound this good when they were first installed. There was a higher pitched raspyness too them, but that has completely faded away. They just took time to break in.
The exhaust sounds a lot better when it's under load, but I'm not taping my phone under my car and driving it around.
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RE: Good Exhaust for 06 V6
put an axle back jba on my 05 v6 and it sounds like a v8 for 185.00 if you do not plan to do to many mods a dual is a waste of money it does not add any signifant amount of hp. get a cai and a tuner especially for the slow moving first gear and you will spin the tire halfway down the block.
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From: Fayetteville, NC
RE: Good Exhaust for 06 V6
ORIGINAL: Phillips1847
I went to a dealer today for exhaust and the guy at one place told me Magnaflow is more for european cars and really doesn't sound that good on the mustang. He also told me that it is imposibble to get dual exhaust on the V6, can anyone confirm this. Then I went to a different garage and he told me about a company named V-Tech? My friend told me that Borla and Flowmaster are also good companies for exhaust. Which should I get? I'm looking for a non-ricer mean sounding exhaust with good performance.
Thanks in adavance
I went to a dealer today for exhaust and the guy at one place told me Magnaflow is more for european cars and really doesn't sound that good on the mustang. He also told me that it is imposibble to get dual exhaust on the V6, can anyone confirm this. Then I went to a different garage and he told me about a company named V-Tech? My friend told me that Borla and Flowmaster are also good companies for exhaust. Which should I get? I'm looking for a non-ricer mean sounding exhaust with good performance.
Thanks in adavance
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RE: Good Exhaust for 06 V6
When I first started shopping around for an exhaust, some shops told me it was illegal to put true duals on a V6, that it would not pass inspections. I'm not sure if that is just a TX thing, but I decided to stick with my Y pipe for now. My car sounds nothing like a ricer, but it is hard to make good sound clips that sound deep.
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From: Naperville
RE: Good Exhaust for 06 V6
As far as installation is conserned, do you know where a very detailed step by step guide woud be? Maybe come with the exhaust? I have decided to go with the Magnaflow duals
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RE: Good Exhaust for 06 V6
The installation instructions that come with the muffler are pretty straight forward. They are the same instructions located on the web site. You are just unbolting like 5 claps and moving over one of the mounting brackets from the passenger side that currently hold your stock bumper. It is a pretty easy install, but you will have to cut the stock pipe if you don't have your car up high enough. I demonstrate this on my web site.
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RE: Good Exhaust for 06 V6
ORIGINAL: stangman53
put an axle back jba on my 05 v6 and it sounds like a v8 for 185.00 if you do not plan to do to many mods a dual is a waste of money it does not add any signifant amount of hp. get a cai and a tuner especially for the slow moving first gear and you will spin the tire halfway down the block.
put an axle back jba on my 05 v6 and it sounds like a v8 for 185.00 if you do not plan to do to many mods a dual is a waste of money it does not add any signifant amount of hp. get a cai and a tuner especially for the slow moving first gear and you will spin the tire halfway down the block.
I went duals for a future twin turbo project I plan on undertaking sometime in the future (once everything else that already on the list gets done). I didn't notice any power increase with the duals compared to the high flow Pypes ProV, but they'll be much more effective when I'm charged.