H-Pipe/X-Pipe Suggestions

[miksax]

Hey guys, you may remember me from all of the poor gas milage questions. Well good news (hopefully), I took it to a mustang guy here in Florida and he said that the cats were cashed. He said this was probably causing the horrible gas milage, and he said the car felt a little sluggish. Well, if this is the case, then I'm pumped. Bad Cats means fixing the problem with a performance upgrade. I have stock headers (exhaust manifold?) and a stock cat-back with flowmaster mufflers. I pretty sure all of this stuff is 2 1/4 inch piping. I wanna get rid of the cats and put on an off road H-Pipe or X-pipe. What are the differences b/t the two and do you have any reccomedations? Thanks so much for your help, this is a valuable resource to me, as I'm new to the mustang game.

Thanks
Mike

 

[legalize420]

Hey guys, you may remember me from all of the poor gas milage questions. Well good news (hopefully), I took it to a mustang guy here in Florida and he said that the cats were cashed. He said this was probably causing the horrible gas milage, and he said the car felt a little sluggish. Well, if this is the case, then I'm pumped. Bad Cats means fixing the problem with a performance upgrade. I have stock headers (exhaust manifold?) and a stock cat-back with flowmaster mufflers. I pretty sure all of this stuff is 2 1/4 inch piping. I wanna get rid of the cats and put on an off road H-Pipe or X-pipe. What are the differences b/t the two and do you have any reccomedations? Thanks so much for your help, this is a valuable resource to me, as I'm new to the mustang game.

Thanks
Mike

get a pro-chamber

 

[tjm73]

get a pro-chamber

Defintily get a Pro-Chamber if going with an off road type pipe.

H-pipes suck. They are crap. They are a design that dates back to the 30's/40's. They are outdated. X-pipes are wayyyyyyy better. The Pro-Chamber is a modified X-pipe kind of design. I've read many tech articles and test articles on the X and Pro-Chamber mid pipes. IN everyone the performance has been far and above that of the H-pipe design and the X and Pro-C are with in a couple hp of each other everytime with the edge always falling to the Pro-C.

 

[FORCED2DV8]

If you have stock headers, it isnt going to have hardly any difference if you go with a 150 dollar bbk h pipe or a 300 x pipe. If you want to see noticable gains go with full length headers and a matching x pipe.

 

[87MustangGT5.0]

Yeah the pro-chamber is kinda awesome even though I have a BBk

 

[White35thAnn.GT]

i think the bassani is a great choice i had it on my 5.0

 

[tunedin302]

http://forums.stangnet.com/showthread.php?t=561792

 

[TheBocSez]

I have the UPR X pipe, great fit and sound compared to my old MAC H pipe.

 

[ninety15.0]

I have had a h pipe with high flow cats and an O/R h pipe and i can find almost no differences between the two in terms of power but the sound difference is crazy...O/R mid pipes really make the car sound like it should.

 

[Insane3D]

IMO, you can't beat the fit or qaulity of a stainless steel Bassani X pipe...

The horsepower differences between any of the common pipes, including the prochamber should be nothing you notice...

 

[Metalcop]

I prefer the sound of my off-road H pipe (MAC) to that of the X pipe. The H pipe sounds more deep and gutteral, the X pipe is more raspy. To my ears the off-road H pipe makes my car sound like a 60's muscle car -- the classic small block sound that it was meant to have.

 

[PeteyAce]

i prefer an o/r h since i enjoy setting car alarms off (nnot that you wouldnt with a x though). i dont enjoy that exotic mustang sound. i prefer the original mustang sound

 

[Project89]

H-pipe=Classic sound. Your best bet is to try to find Stangs w/either pipe and listen for yourself.

 

[Black 93 Fox]

I like my mac off road h pipe with flowmasters.