Exhaust setup options

[FLASH]

I read previous posts about dual exhaust and the general consensus is that it causes a loss of HP and torque and is just for looks.
Perfect. I don't race my car, I just want to look and sound good, so a few HP loss wouldn't be a big deal to me. I want to, however, sound good, so I want to do a dual TRD Muffler Exhaust. What my plan is, to get 3" piping starting immediately after the cat, remove the resonator, and then have the shop set up a dual muffler setup. I'd leave the current TRD Muffler in place, and have them chop off the part that bends to the left and just weld it whats left onto the piping straight after the cat.

This may sound crazy, some may think ricey, but I do like the sound of the TRD Muffler, its just not loud enough for me, so I figured two of em, and no resonator should help, and it would look a heck of a lot better I thihnk. I plan on shopping around for places to do this and find a price somewheres around 300, probably more because there would be a lot of cutting and welding necessary.

If the dual is too much, I'll probaby just have a shop do the three inch piping with no resonator and hope that sounds louder...

[boneezy]

there may be some problems on where you can hang such large piping with the spare wheel in the way.. u can probably purchase one of those Y-pipes from your nearest Magnaflow dealer and have the piping run from there instead of just welding it into the piping leading from the cat... Also, 3-inch is pretty big and I do not think you would have as deep of a sound as you would like with the insufficient amount of backpressure stemming from such large piping.... 2 1/4 would be your best bet, plus you can tuck it in a lot better than 3

john

[HKSV6SLE]

unless your car is turbo...3inch piping is an absolute waste of money...get 2.5 and that will be good..anymore and you going to be losing power for sure.....why would you spend money and lose hp? if you want it louder remove the resonater..and get a shop to hollow out ur cat converter...tho..that's not legal in Ca..and im just bout everywhere..else...and is there even enuff spce for inch pipe down there..?

[Fletch]

I don't know about the styling or how they sound on 1mz-fe, but Borla mufflers have a loud and deep sound. It sound pretty good on my buddy's GTI VR6.

[64Galaxie]

Just go for broke and cut out the spare tire well. It makes a lovely home for a pair of stainless mufflers. Mine sounds nice and deep without any of the annoying "Swarm of bees" sound