Well it feels good to have the car back on the road. I drove it back home today from the exhaust shop and I love the way it sounds. Gotta do a few maintenance things like bleed the brakes and so forth.
I wasn't able to get a video clip which I'll try and get one soon, but It does have a nice muscle sound to it


Here are some pics of the setup.

Hawks long-tubes with 3" collectors. Goes from the dual 3" into a flowmaster merge 3" into 4"



Made the 4" cutout dump out the side. After cutout it then goes into a 3" piping all the way out.



3" over the axle into a flowmaster 3"in/out and dumped at the rear.



Kinda bad pics, but shows the clearance. Its pretty tucked up which is nice, so I'm good to go.



My new license plate haha:

 

Excellent! I have nearly the exact same setup (same y-pipe), but with a 3" QTP cutout. I don't have a whole lot of experience with various y-pipe, but I know mine has no weird rasp like I read a lot of people complaining about.

Anyway, looks great, and there will be absolutely no HP loss through that setup.

 

What y pipe are you using?

 

It's a custom made one from the collectors to the flowmaster merge

 

looks good man i hope to get mine made up next week to I can finally get my car tuned

 

Nice set up!

 

Looks good. I have the Hawks 3/4 w/ 3" collectors and similar set up as well. I have a long way to go before they get bolted and i open up the cut out though. GL

 

Looking forward to the sound video clip.

Where did you get the cool 5.7L LS1 license plate frame?

Is it metal or chrome covered plastic?

 

Thanks guys, I'll try and get a video clip this weekend.

The license plate was $15 shipped off eBay. It's a chrome plastic and looks pretty good when it's on.

 

That Looks Sweet!

Looking forward to some open and closed sound clips.

 

Just a question, but why reduce from 4" after the cutout to single 3" again? Dual 3" has the same flow area as a single 4", so wouldnt it choke up the exhaust at that point?

 

I used the 3" to help tame the noise and drive around the street. I'll eventually get an electric 4" cutout and just flip the switch when I want all my ponies

 

Whoops... I forgot to post the video clips. Here is one with the full exhaust:



And here is one with no exhaust

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSbWl...ature=youtu.be

 

Very nice and clean! Love the black on black to.. reminds me of my car for the rims.. how did you do them? They look very nice and mine are pretty faded so I might do what you did

 

how, may i ask, are you passing CA emissions with the swap and exhaust?

 

Thanks. The paint is actually a dark midnight blue, looks good when the sun hits it. The rims are factory just had them polished out which turned out awesome, though I'm thinking of selling them to get some ZR1's.

 

It's all in the tune lol

 

HA.. yeah we both know thats NOT true