cheap;loud; exhuast route help

[TransAm95]

Hey guys, I hope everyones summer is going great! Well I have decided to keep my LT1 TA for now and won't go LS1 until I graduate high school and get better paying job which will be this year. My birth day is coming up on the 25th and I will have some cash, and I am wanting to get a cat-back. My orginal plan was to do Lts and full exhuast, but I realized it isn't wrth it since I will be selling car and I don't want to dish out alot for a pricy cat-back. So pretty much what I am asking is what can you guys sugest for me, I am wanting LOUD!! I have thought about maybe a cutout after the y-pipe when I get my catback. But defantly want something cheaper, good-ole stock system just isn't cutting it!! Esspecialy now that we put Lts on my buddys Z28!! As always; Thanks for any help!

[1sickbird]

Hey guys, I hope everyones summer is going great! Well I have decided to keep my LT1 TA for now and won't go LS1 until I graduate high school and get better paying job which will be this year. My birth day is coming up on the 25th and I will have some cash, and I am wanting to get a cat-back. My orginal plan was to do Lts and full exhuast, but I realized it isn't wrth it since I will be selling car and I don't want to dish out alot for a pricy cat-back. So pretty much what I am asking is what can you guys sugest for me, I am wanting LOUD!! I have thought about maybe a cutout after the y-pipe when I get my catback. But defantly want something cheaper, good-ole stock system just isn't cutting it!! Esspecialy now that we put Lts on my buddys Z28!! As always; Thanks for any help!

just to let you know there is no cat back flow better than cutout.plus you wanting LOUD just get cutout put it between I- pipe and you are done, cut out cost about 35-45 bucks and if you want to get electric one its about 135 bucks.

[Blazer]

Loud will get cops at your age witch will = tickets witch will = money witch will = no LS1. But go for it I was a young kid once.An as you get older you will think boy was that dumb.Just my 2 cents
Have fun Blazer

[Christopherrr]

Don't go for loud...go for clean sound. Trust me, you'll be tired of the loud early on. Loud is good...but not for day in day out driving.

[Joe 1320]

just to let you know there is no cat back flow better than cutout.plus you wanting LOUD just get cutout put it between I- pipe and you are done, cut out cost about 35-45 bucks and if you want to get electric one its about 135 bucks.

Yup. Quiet when you want it, loud when you want to really be heard.

[LS1 TA]

Don't go for loud...go for clean sound. Trust me, you'll be tired of the loud early on. Loud is good...but not for day in day out driving.

I agree, I thought driving around with open headers was a cool thing. Then I decided to take a road trip to SanDiego (10 hrs away), I was hating life by the time I got to tucson. Not to mention the tickets I got while I was there. I guess when I was 18 I thought loud was great, now I prefer the smooth sound of the borla cat back.

[TransAm95]

Yup. Quiet when you want it, loud when you want to really be heard.

That is why I am going to pickup a cheap flowmaster 80 series ( I no not best flowing out there!) and take it to my buddys exhuast shop and have em' fabricate the pipeing and also get an electric cutout and I will have nice somber tone and then with the flip of a switch become very loud!

[TransAm95]

I agree, I thought driving around with open headers was a cool thing. Then I decided to take a road trip to SanDiego (10 hrs away), I was hating life by the time I got to tucson. Not to mention the tickets I got while I was there. I guess when I was 18 I thought loud was great, now I prefer the smooth sound of the borla cat back.

O yea I love the sound of open headers!! When we put LTs on my buddys Z he ran it open for a few days! Then he put the pacesetter y-pipe on and it still was very loud but more likely not to attract $$$$$ in tickets from the police.

[Steel2686]

I love my SLP LoudMouth system, but I also don't drive my car every day. It is a very loud system, and I think it sounds great... especially at WOT.

With that said, I couldn't deal with it as a daily driver. Even on a long trip I could see this system, or one like it, growing very old - very fast. As Joe and Chris said, go for a nice clean sound with a decent grumble. The nicest system I've heard on either an LT1 or LS1 is the Corsa catback. It's clean, easy-going, but wakes right up when needed.

[toddwirges]

Just get a cutout. LT1's are a lot more forgiving with exhaust tones than LS1's. The exhaust note is about the only thing I miss from my LT1 days, but boy, do I miss it.

Buying a catback now, knowing you're going to sell the car shortly doesn't make a lot of sense. $300-500 is a pretty large chunk of change. It'll get you a full-life cycle catback when you go to an LS1, or a better car to start.

[TransAm95]

Just get a cutout. LT1's are a lot more forgiving with exhaust tones than LS1's. The exhaust note is about the only thing I miss from my LT1 days, but boy, do I miss it.

Buying a catback now, knowing you're going to sell the car shortly doesn't make a lot of sense. $300-500 is a pretty large chunk of change. It'll get you a full-life cycle catback when you go to an LS1, or a better car to start.

Yeah, well I can get a flowmaster 80series muffler decently cheap and can get it welded up for 25$ and I am gonna get a cutout as well. ... JEeez 300-500 for catback plus a good 6-700 for headers and all the goodies to go with header install means I better start saving now to put them on my LS1 in a year!

[TransAm95]

I love my SLP LoudMouth system, but I also don't drive my car every day. It is a very loud system, and I think it sounds great... especially at WOT.

With that said, I couldn't deal with it as a daily driver. Even on a long trip I could see this system, or one like it, growing very old - very fast. As Joe and Chris said, go for a nice clean sound with a decent grumble. The nicest system I've heard on either an LT1 or LS1 is the Corsa catback. It's clean, easy-going, but wakes right up when needed.

If I wasn't planning on selling in a year I would most likely go with the LM, I love its tone, and of course you don't have a problem hearing it!

[Joe 1320]

Just another worthy part of the topic........ I have SLP headers, Random Tech high flow Y pipe, bullet cats, 4" mufflex cat back. On the throttle, it will rattle your chest. At cruise it purrs like a tiger at anything other than between 2000 and 2500 rpm. in that range the drone at cruise isn't something I could deal with as a daily driver. One has to be careful when selecting an exhaust. Automatic cars will cruise at a different rpm than stick cars. In general, I've found that stick shift cars can get by with a wilder exhaust than an automatic for daily use. You can always choose a different gear with a stick and cut some of the drone. With an auto pretty much always being under a little more load, combined with different cruise rpm you'll find a louder exhaust on an automatic gets tiresome pretty quick on long trips.