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What I'm thinking of doing is cutting the exhaust off just before the muffler, that way it still has a hanger. Then, I'm going to cut off the curved section from the end. It looks wide enough to just slide over the other end. Then I can just clamp it down and that's it. Either that, or I can just slide a turn down over the cutoff section, and turn it to the side at a 45 degree angle. What do you think? That should be nice and loud.

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Loud and obnoxiously noisy. It'd be like a monster truck driving up and down your street. It could also be breaking noise restriction laws. Also don't plan on holding any conversation insidde the cab, it would be deafening in there. Imagine the tail pipes of Harley Davidson on each side of your face pointed at your ears... Which also are loud and obnoxiously noisy.

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Well, it was just a thought. Maybe I'll rig that up before I go to the muffler shop just to see what it sounds like. I'm going to have them make a true dual exhaust w/ an x-pipe and exit in front of the rear passenger tire. Should be pretty good. Just gotta find some good mufflers.

carneyman Senior Enthusiast

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Loud and obnoxiously noisy. It'd be like a monster truck driving up and down your street. It could also be breaking noise restriction laws. Also don't plan on holding any conversation insidde the cab, it would be deafening in there. Imagine the tail pipes of Harley Davidson on each side of your face pointed at your ears... Which also are loud and obnoxiously noisy.

 

 

 

 

Yeah, you would go deaf pretty quick. We had to put homemade mufflers on our irrigation motors (454's and such) for the sake of our hearing.

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It's easy to rig just unbolt the system at the Y-pipe. It's loud, I did before my cat-back system arrived to see what it sounded like.

 

And it's loud.

 

 

 

 

 

I think I'll try that after work tomorrow. Easy enough. And that should sound the same as if I cut the muffler off, and leave all that extra pipe on?

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Well, as promised today I unbolted the catback section, and fired her up. Oh, man...........It was amazing. That is totally the sound I'm looking for. True, it's a little loud but a welcome sound nevertheless. Coming from a GTO where the exhaust note was fantastic to a Sierra where the tone is mellow, and way too quiet, this was totally mind blowing. I think tomorrow, I'm going to drive around with it unbolted.

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