I picked up the bassani xpipe no cats with the magnaflow magnapack catback and when I fired it up I couldnt believe how freaking loud and crappy it sounded, it sounded like it was running off open headers. I drove it home then to the muffler shop in the morning they welded in 1 stock cat on each side of the xpipe and now its a nice low rumble and at WOT is very loud. Ive put 50k miles on the car and some winter driving the magnapacks still look brand new with no rust and the rest of the pipe has a light coat of rust on it. The Xpipe still looks brand new with zero rust.
No. After reading my response I realize I was a bit vague. I only race at the track. In Vegas we have what's called midnight madness where anyone can race just about anything at LV International Raceway strip. You run into all kinds of cars that aren't what they appear to be. Everyone checks out everyone else's rides trying to match up a good race. Having more than meets the eye (or ears) is a definate advantage.