will I lose anything?

[302fordracer]

will I loose power or torque...or will I move the power band higher or what....I am thinking of dumping my mufflers...I was just told that the western states have removed their sound requirements regulations and I wanna take off my mufflers...my car is mostly stock right now accept CAI and some flowmasters but I got a trickflow street heat manifold I am about ready to install (i hope)..but before I just go ahead and cut away my mufflers I wanna know if I will lose anything and if so how much??

 

[wytstang]

You will lose torque and horse power if you remove the mufflers completely. You need some back pressure that's created by mufflers. Example what happend when you bend a water hose to a 90* angle? It forces the water out at a stronger rate. You didn't increase the water out put just created some back pressure. Apply that with your exhaust same concept.

 

[AznStanger3v]

the only way to move your powerband is to adjust either mechanical or ignition timing

 

[302fordracer]

I figured I would lose some power because of the very same concept of the hose and water....I was just wondering if anyone knew how much would be lost...

 

[Mrgreen94gt]

Just running open h-pipe feels very turdlike at lowspeed and not too great at higher speeds. If you want loud, get yourself an SLP catback.

Loud seems to get old after a while. I've grown out of it a lot sooner than I expected to.