straight pipes

Does anybody know the pros and cons to straight pipes versus an exhaust system? Thanks!!!!

just get cutouts and you can have both.

i got my catback stainless $800 installed

i was going to go with flowmaster or magnaflow but there a little expensive. I looked into straight pipes and installed for 200.

get the cutouts at least you dont want to run staights 24/7

Problem with cutouts is they always fail. I went with catless midpipes. Will see what that turns out like.

08 RT wrote:

i was going to go with flowmaster or magnaflow but there a little expensive. I looked into straight pipes and installed for 200.

Straight pipes will be loud to the point where you will probably get a ticket, also I dont think you will pass emissions.

U can get ur suitcase muffler replaced with 2 flowmasters for about $250 installed. It will sound much better than stock and will cost u way less than a full catback system.

if u go balls out straight pipes - no mufllers, no cats, you will lose too much back pressure and with a stock engine you'd end up losing power.

Replace stock suitcase with some aftermarket mufflers, delete resonators, change your midpipes to hi flow's (catless will be hard to pass emissions - not undoable, but hard) you can also change headers for shorties or long tubes and then get the mids to fit...otherwise you can just replace mufflers and kill the resonators.

what if i just change the mufflers? any suggestions to a brand? thanks everyone!!

I know of a place where you can get the Magnaflow hf cats and the Magnaflow catback system delivered to your door for $1030 then about $200 to get them installed. I did it and never looked back...just had to buy bigdaddies spacers for the front o2 sensors like $28 from http://www.bigdaddiesgarage.com/straight-cel-fix.html my car sounds like a Hemi now!

08 RT wrote:

what if i just change the mufflers? any suggestions to a brand? thanks everyone!!

See LilJoes post

When I was partying out my 5.7L 350cid LT1 Chevy I fired it up with just the exhaust manifolds on it.
initial startup you can hear everything: intake and exhaust.
Initial explosions sound scarry loud and iddle sounds like a pure scarry muscle car racer but given some gas and it sounds like crap.

In Elmwood Park there was a cop who had a '96 LT1 retired car that was all straight pipes and he started it up for me. It was late at night and he only revved it for a moment.

IMHO straight pipes need something done to the motor to sound good. A little lope in the cam to make it sound good.
Now the Flowmaster mufflers sounded good on a GM LT1 and Dynomax on a GM TBI I had.

IMHO the Hemi needs a Magnaflow.