exhaust questions for 2005 v6

Since you said mufflers, i'm assuming you had installed or bought the car with dual exhaust. If you take both off, you can drive with it and it will be somewhat loud when you get on it. Not deafening, but enough to turn heads. You will lose some back pressure and thus some low end power too.

I ran SLP dual axle backs for awhile, and those are basically straight pipes with nice tips (made for GT). After a while I started getting annoyed by the drone inside the car, and was more worried about back pressure and the possibility of burning my valves. So I put my GT Takeoffs back on. I should invest in some proper dual V6 mufflers for my car someday as the GT Takeoffs are a tad too quite.

Check out the videos in my YouTube Channel. A few videos in there relating to how my exhaust sounds with and without axle backs.

In the video that I raced against that white mustang, I was using the SLP Loudmouths. He had stock exhaust, so what you heard was all me.

You can take it off and drive it around to see how it sounds for a bit. I can vouch driving around a couple a thousand miles on my Dual SLP's. And a single exhaust would have more back pressure than them. No harm done. But of course you will want to have some sort of muffler on there eventually for support and for looks.

Yeah, the V6's don't sound that bad at all. Just don't stand behind someone else's V8 and have them start it up. It makes you go "eww, mine doesn't sound as dreamy as this!" lol. I always think mine sounds like a V8 until I hear a real one, lol.