will i see any gains from this swap?

[romgolferman]

I have a catted bbk x-pipe on now and im going to put a offroad bassini x-pipe on. will it make any difference.

 

[EPIK]

I personally prefer the sound of a catted pipe over an off road peice. The catted pipes have a cleaner, less raspy sound, and on a mostly stock vehicle you are gonna lose some low end with the off road pipe. I personally have used a Bassani catted x, and an off road x, and I didnt like either one of them as much as my MRT catted H pipe I am currently running. It gave the car more of the deep musclecar tone I was looking for. As far as gains go, Im not too sure. I think the off road x will give you the most peak HP gains, but i think its gonna be top end power. I chose my exhaust more for the sound anyway because your only gonna gain a few horses that you probably wont even feel, but you gotta live with the sound all the time.

 

[EPIK]

Ooops.. I didnt even look at your mods. Maybe with the mods you have it might benefit you more to have an off road x??

 

[BurningRubber]

Probaly not.

The big step in using an aftermarket mid pipe is moving up to 2.5" piping.

It will probaly make a slight bump in moving your powerband up, but again probaly nothing noitceable.

Id do it though, let her breath and sound like a beast.

Keep in mind though, the Bassani and BBK X pipes are very similar in design.

 

[04YELLOWGT]

Wont be much if a gain but I personally think O/R X pipes sound a hell of alot better than with cats.

 

[mrvax]

From all I've seen here over the years, it seems that an off-road pipe gives about 5 more RWHP than a good quality hi-flow catted pipe. An x pipe seems to give close to 5 over an H.