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Just got a pair of SLP resonators, BBK shorties already installed...running cats...question is will my exhaust be enormously quieter by running tailpipes as compared to just dumps?

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IT WILL BE A LITTLE QUIETER WITH THE TAILPIPES
 

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Is it like night and day or is it usually very minimal

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Its going to be a lot quieter at idle and cruise...but at WOT they will be just as loud. The SLP's sound excellent with tailpipes, you will not be disappointed. My brother runs them on his stock 5.0 with two cats removed and stock headers and his car just as loud as mine with a built motor, LT's, O/R H, and 40 series flows. The tails are a must in my opinion! Dumps sound like an old truck and don't belong on street cars IMO. I used to run dumps but the gas smell and vibrations at idle just got annoying! Tails have a much cleaner and nicer tone to them!
 

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ninety15.0 said:
Its going to be a lot quieter at idle and cruise...but at WOT they will be just as loud. The SLP's sound excellent with tailpipes, you will not be disappointed. My brother runs them on his stock 5.0 with two cats removed and stock headers and his car just as loud as mine with a built motor, LT's, O/R H, and 40 series flows. The tails are a must in my opinion! Dumps sound like an old truck and don't belong on street cars IMO. I used to run dumps but the gas smell and vibrations at idle just got annoying! Tails have a much cleaner and nicer tone to them!
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i second that! i've run several variations and my dumps and 40's were so deep, my cd player would skip and i was high on fumes at stops. sounded ok but tailpipes are more refined sounding.
 

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ninety15.0 said:
Its going to be a lot quieter at idle and cruise...but at WOT they will be just as loud. The SLP's sound excellent with tailpipes, you will not be disappointed. My brother runs them on his stock 5.0 with two cats removed and stock headers and his car just as loud as mine with a built motor, LT's, O/R H, and 40 series flows. The tails are a must in my opinion! Dumps sound like an old truck and don't belong on street cars IMO. I used to run dumps but the gas smell and vibrations at idle just got annoying! Tails have a much cleaner and nicer tone to them!
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Well the dumps I have now the sound level is about how I like it but I like the looks of tailpipes as well I just hate to get it done and it be quiet as a mouse. Will tailpipes change the tone at all?

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yes, more of a trumpety sound in my case but as i said, cases are specific. but thats listening from the outside cause what you here from inside is a little different from what you here inside. logically speaking anyways.
 

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It's gonna sound quieter to you, and for the most part it will be, but that's mainly because the sound is now behind the car and not under your seat. To everyone else it's still gonna be really loud, although not quite as loud.

Exhaust harmonics are a funny thing....i just recently cut my tail pipes back off again because they're for a '94+ and really didn't fit too well, and when i cut them off i left about 4 inches of pipe coming out of the back of the mufflers. The car sounded like absolute crap. That really didn't make sense to me because i've ran these mufflers plenty of times without tail pipes. So, just out of curiosity i cut off that 4 inches and ran them just open at the back of the muffler, and bingo it was back to how it always sounded. With the 4 inch pipes coming out the back of the mufflers, it would pop and cackle and sounded like a hillbilly truck. Now it's smooth and rippy sounding without. Who would've guessed 4 inches of pipe could make that big of a difference? In a lot of ways an exhaust system is just like a musical instrument, and changes in the pipes make a huge difference on the sound they make. My mufflers sound totally different with tail pipes too, but i think it's a better sound.
 

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ha, i used the wrong hear, i put here! drugs from the dentist wearing off finally!
85 hit it dead on tho. thats how my second stang was, cut off right past the muffs and not turned down like my first stang and it was rippy like he said. i'll probably continue to run pipes tho. i like the way they sound from behind. imo.
 

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Plus there is nothing like the two cones of rubber chunks that are formed behind the car from the exhaust blowing them away after doing a dirty 2nd gear burnout! You just dont get that with dumps! Im sure some of you know exactly what I'm talking about!
 

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and when you scare the ***** outta people when they walk behind your car and you let the pipes rip and the exhaust hits em. satisfying in a juvenile way if you know what i mean.
 

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85_SS_302_Coupe said:
It's gonna sound quieter to you, and for the most part it will be, but that's mainly because the sound is now behind the car and not under your seat. To everyone else it's still gonna be really loud, although not quite as loud.

Exhaust harmonics are a funny thing....i just recently cut my tail pipes back off again because they're for a '94+ and really didn't fit too well, and when i cut them off i left about 4 inches of pipe coming out of the back of the mufflers. The car sounded like absolute crap. That really didn't make sense to me because i've ran these mufflers plenty of times without tail pipes. So, just out of curiosity i cut off that 4 inches and ran them just open at the back of the muffler, and bingo it was back to how it always sounded. With the 4 inch pipes coming out the back of the mufflers, it would pop and cackle and sounded like a hillbilly truck. Now it's smooth and rippy sounding without. Who would've guessed 4 inches of pipe could make that big of a difference? In a lot of ways an exhaust system is just like a musical instrument, and changes in the pipes make a huge difference on the sound they make. My mufflers sound totally different with tail pipes too, but i think it's a better sound.
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Ok cool, think Ill go that route....thanks for all the help
 

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ninety15.0 said:
Its going to be a lot quieter at idle and cruise...but at WOT they will be just as loud. The SLP's sound excellent with tailpipes, you will not be disappointed. My brother runs them on his stock 5.0 with two cats removed and stock headers and his car just as loud as mine with a built motor, LT's, O/R H, and 40 series flows. The tails are a must in my opinion! Dumps sound like an old truck and don't belong on street cars IMO. I used to run dumps but the gas smell and vibrations at idle just got annoying! Tails have a much cleaner and nicer tone to them!
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You were right...tried the dumps and it sounded like a Sanford & Son truck getting the tailpipes today. Thanks for all the feedback
 

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Sound Clip

I tossed the dumps and went with the tailpipes...all the folks here that helped me the least I could do was post a sound clip of the new exhaust

http://www.geocities.com/larryj1285/exh.mp3

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would you mind putting up a clip of it revving? Thanks
 

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would you mind putting up a clip of it revving? Thanks
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Sorry such a short rev but it's the middle of the night here and don't need the cops called on me

http://www.geocities.com/larryj1285/rev.mp3


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