Seems a lot of people are less than thrilled with some of the catbacks they've tried on their cars. Correspondingly, there appear to be many who like the stock mufflers (myself included), apart from the fact they're too quiet.
I've seen that several people are running their stock mufflers with an offroad x-pipe, like the one from Lethal. I'd like to keep the cats, and so far have spoken with one member who has '10 mufflers on his 05-09 car, with a catted x-pipe.
Anyone else running a catted x-pipe on their '10-'12 GT500 with the stock mufflers? If so, I'd like to gather as much feedback about the idle/accelerating/WOT volume (approx % increase vs. bone stock), changes (if any) to tone/depth, and drone while crusing (if any).
As an example, I saw this pipe available locally, and was wondering if anyone knew anything about it:
Magnaflow 2011-2012 Shelby GT500 Tru-X Pipe (With Metallic Cats) [16459] : Lethal Performance, Performance parts for Ford Mustangs
With metallic cats, though, this pipe is essentially illegal/off-road use only, if I'm reading correctly? I suppose I could swap it back when emissions testing time came, down the road. Also, it's listed as a 3" midpipe, but it's described as "direct replacement" on many sites I've seen. I see that Bassani also makes a similar pipe, but it looks as though it's also a 3" pipe. They make it clear it will only work if you have their (or maybe another) 3" catback. Any other options I'm missing?
Thanks in advance for any advice. Oh, and here are a couple pics of the car - just got it Monday and am loving it so far!
I've seen that several people are running their stock mufflers with an offroad x-pipe, like the one from Lethal. I'd like to keep the cats, and so far have spoken with one member who has '10 mufflers on his 05-09 car, with a catted x-pipe.
Anyone else running a catted x-pipe on their '10-'12 GT500 with the stock mufflers? If so, I'd like to gather as much feedback about the idle/accelerating/WOT volume (approx % increase vs. bone stock), changes (if any) to tone/depth, and drone while crusing (if any).
As an example, I saw this pipe available locally, and was wondering if anyone knew anything about it:
Magnaflow 2011-2012 Shelby GT500 Tru-X Pipe (With Metallic Cats) [16459] : Lethal Performance, Performance parts for Ford Mustangs
With metallic cats, though, this pipe is essentially illegal/off-road use only, if I'm reading correctly? I suppose I could swap it back when emissions testing time came, down the road. Also, it's listed as a 3" midpipe, but it's described as "direct replacement" on many sites I've seen. I see that Bassani also makes a similar pipe, but it looks as though it's also a 3" pipe. They make it clear it will only work if you have their (or maybe another) 3" catback. Any other options I'm missing?
Thanks in advance for any advice. Oh, and here are a couple pics of the car - just got it Monday and am loving it so far!
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