So im thinking about hallowing out one of my cats on my 2008 lancer gts. i have the works exhuast on there right now. the thing is i want my car louder, ha without putting one of those big can exhausts on my car. The only thing i am affraid of it sounding like one of those ricey hondas. i hate that high pitch annoying sound lol. i need some opinions on what should i do. i know my CEL will go off but i can easily make that go away. so thats not the problem. im just looking for a deeper tone and little louder then it is with out it costing my an arm and leg. please let me know what u guys think! thanks( i would plan to do this today!)
Re: hallowing out my cat rrm sells a straight pipe aka test pipe tat eliminates the cat...u cood try tat out prob..im not sure how they sound tho wit them on i never heard it
Re: hallowing out my cat Why buy a test pipe, when you can just make your own, ya know? I was thinking about doing that to my stock cat, but can't get the bolts off easily because they're all rusted.
Re: hallowing out my cat why pay for a test pipe, when you can just hallow it out and leave the cat. i looked under my car and one side has bolts and the other side is welded to the rest of the piping (toward the rear bumber). the only thing is i dont wana hallow it out and then have it sound like shit lol. then im screwed and there will be no tuirning back u no? lol
Re: hallowing out my cat the works exhaust is just a muffler delete isnt it? you would get a nicer all over sound with a test pipe like everyone else has mentioned, and an axle-back exhaust.
Re: hallowing out my cat instead of the test pipe what if i just hollow out the cat? wouldnt that be almost the same sound overall?
Re: hallowing out my cat it would be i suppose, you just have to factor in the compromise of that part if you start altering it. the thing might rattle a lot, or be much weaker, you never know, plus just a straight pipe the same dimensions as the rest of your exhaust would'nt be too expensive. its really all up to you
Re: hallowing out my cat and a shaking cat is the most terrible noise in the world, next to bad brakes. if you're smart about it im sure it would work out fine.
Re: hallowing out my cat well thanks everyone for the help! Im going to go to a shop to see if they would do that, bc in my state having no cat is iligal
They don't make a test pipe for the new lancers... but if they did what kind of gains would you see with a axle back
not much, but something. and i was commenting on the quality of sound, rather than that created by just having no muffler at all.
so i looked under my car last night (2008 lancer gts), we have a small cat in our down pipe. Then we have our big cat in our exhuast with a sensor before the cat and after the cat... then at the end we have a resinator then our muffler. so i took the muffler off already and put the WORKS axle back. Today im going to go to a shop and get the resinator off and ask them to just put a strieght pipe in there. it shud not throw my CEL cuz there are no sesors after that. I think this is what makes our car really quite. I know they make a magnaflow cat back exhuast for our car. which means the magnaflow goes on AFTER the big cat. thats why this will not throw codes. but the magnaflow still has a resinator. thats why its still so quite. cuz i no they are ment for quiteness pluss actual performance. so i think by taking the resinator out, it will enhance the sound i have now! lol
I just made a axle back on mine using a cheap thrush muffler ($27 at autozone) and elimated the first resonator, the result was a deep and solid sound
