Anyone using Bassani X w/o cats?

[Johnny Random]

Today I went to the muffler shop to get my x-pipe installed on my 03. I really wanted to know what it would sound like w/o the cats. The guy said $2000 a piece to install w/o the cats and then laughed and said he would do it anyway. The fine in NC is pretty high for shops that install systems w/o the cats.

Well I got it on and with the new Borla system in it sounds crazy loud. I almost got a headache on the ride home. Kinda like the first time I rode around town with my MAC system on my 00GT.

The weird part is I get this strange vibration from somewhere under the car when I get on it WOT and it is in gear. In neutral it makes a slight vibe sound. Anyone know what could be vibrating and causing the rattling sound? Maybe someone has something similar. Please let me know.

I called back a little while after I left and told em about it and I am going in again tomorrow. The cats will be going on this time.

 

[OKC03Cobra]

I have Bassani headers, Bassani X-pipes and Borla cat-backs and have had no problems. The header bolts had to be retorqued after installation, but that is normal. The exhaust sound is awesome without being too loud. I suspect your installer is incompitent.

 

[missile man]

I am running the O/R X pipe with the stock mufflers. It is pretty docile at idle but sounds pretty wicked at WOT. have no drone or vibrations.

 

[HotRodHarry]

Here is my car....video and sound...

http://www.modularfords.com/storage/HRHexhaust.mpg

http://mywebpages.comcast.net/hotrodharry/HotRodHarrysCobraDiamondStarRedlight.mpg

Forgot to say...my car has the Bassani Headers,X pipe(no cats) and Bassani catback.

Harry
www.HotRodHarrys.com
2003 Cobra (22 lbs of boost and nitrous...stock Eaton)

 

[Fast01Cobra]

Check to make sure the O2s are not touching the floor board some where.... I've had my Bassani for a little while now, and everything seems ok... Smells like hell in the car though.... Thinking about getting the CATS for it, 'cause I can't stand the smell....

 

[Johnny Random]

yeah i just got home from getting my cats put on. i have to make a trip this weekend for a few hours on the highway and i don't think that i could handle it without cats. i was going about 75 on the highway this afternoon nearly went deaf. the smell was pretty rough too.

the smell of new cats in the garage is a strange one too. atleast that is what i hope that smell is.

 

[Johnny Random]

by the way it sounds like the old system without the x-pipe to me. i am sure it does not but after riding around without the cats on...

 

[KHsonic03]

That smell is the oil they use in the mandrel bend process burning off. It smells like that for a few hundred miles. It's not the cats. It will go away.

 

[Orange Poison]

03BlackCoupe,

Is your catback the Borla Stinger or the regular Borla catback?

 

[Johnny Random]

Just regular Borla. However there is a guy on here that said he is having trouble getting the regular system with the 4" rolled tips from Amazon. Something about Borla production not too sure. So I might be getting the Stinger and selling him mine. Still don't know what I want. I could handle something a little louder than what I have now.

I did here a vid of the stinger system with o/r x and it had a lot of crackle to it. It could have been the x-pipe.

http://home.hawaii.rr.com/pasture/files/MOV00834.MPG

I really like the sound the x-pipe w/o cats for cruising around. It was pretty mean. But IMO not good at all for highway.