Borla Exhaust for the SHO

[PonySHO]

Exactly what I noticed. NESHO needs to update their page to the latest facts after they found out the stock exhaust flows better than they thought.

Oh, I see now what SHO Continental was rofl about.

 

[xxSHONUFFxx]

For those who wanted to know the Borla is a 2.25" exhaust.

 

[SHOsc]

Borla = 2.25" What is stock? what is NESHO's?

What is the correlation between the turbo and the exhaust that makes it most efficient? (Yes i have some idea, but would like to see some opinions)


-J

 

[beefcake]

i had heard magnaflows was going to be released around 22dec as well

 

[SHOsc]

Just called Magnaflow and the gentleman said they are in the plans, but don't have a donor vehicle yet. He said it will generally take 30 days after that.

Or maybe he just had to tell me that...

 

[beefcake]

Just called Magnaflow and the gentleman said they are in the plans, but don't have a donor vehicle yet. He said it will generally take 30 days after that.

Or maybe he just had to tell me that...

they told me the same thing last month, a guy i know says they are all done with it, so who knows

 

[xxSHONUFFxx]

The vendor I purchased said they expect shipment in 2-3 weeks, which means I may have it delivered and installed before I go on vacation....plz, plz, plz...

 

[PonySHO]

I'm looking at modifying the catbacks only to get a little bit of a cool sound, emphasis on little bit. For you old fogies like me, they still make cherry bombs. I was thinking, replace the exhaust from the 3rd cat to the muffler with an X-pipe and a couple cherry bombs, leave the rest the same. JEGS still sells them! They're $30 for the 2.25"ers. It's a glasspack muffler, 2.25" straight inlet/outlet, body length 18", 23" overall.

 

[PonySHO]

I made a quick picture using Kirk's picture of the stock exhaust. This isn't to scale, but it'll give you an idea of what I mean:

 

[PonySHO]

I had a bit of an epiphany. The cherry bombs are just painted, I assume, and would rust. Summit makes a glasspack for $23, but I'm also assuming this is bare. Thrush makes a polished stainless glasspack, but the price reflects that finish, $95.

 

[expy916]

Lose the cat, glasspacks and straight pipes after that.

 

[typhoon5000]

I'm looking at modifying the catbacks only to get a little bit of a cool sound, emphasis on little bit. For you old fogies like me, they still make cherry bombs. I was thinking, replace the exhaust from the 3rd cat to the muffler with an X-pipe and a couple cherry bombs, leave the rest the same. JEGS still sells them! They're $30 for the 2.25"ers. It's a glasspack muffler, 2.25" straight inlet/outlet, body length 18", 23" overall.

That sounds like a plan, but FYI, Cherry bombs will probably give you a lot more sound, not a little bit, as you emphasized. IIRC Cherry bombs just came back a few years ago after a bit of a hiatus. With the stock mufflers and cats, it might keep it farely quiet, by my experience is that Cherry Bombs make a lot more noise and are a bit too raspy for me .

 

[PonySHO]

That sounds like a plan, but FYI, Cherry bombs will probably give you a lot more sound, not a little bit, as you emphasized. IIRC Cherry bombs just came back a few years ago after a bit of a hiatus. With the stock mufflers and cats, it might keep it fairly quiet, by my experience is that Cherry Bombs make a lot more noise and are a bit too raspy for me .

Hey buddy! What gave me the idea was Kirk's video of his first version of catbacks posted a few weeks ago, http://www.nesho.com/Nesho Catback Exhaust.wmv Using that as a starting point, my intent was to quiet that down. I was thinking a combination of glasspacks and an X-pipe would change the characteristic of the sound some. Maybe an H-pipe would even have a different sound. Again, everything after the glasspacks would be stock. I'm looking for that "perfect sound", which is pretty subjective.

 

[warmonger]

turbos help quiet it down a good bit. with stock cats and turbos you'd be fine running them i bet. btw,advanced auto sells glasspacks for like 20 dollars..have for many years

 

[SHODWN]

Its a V6, glass packs will sound like crap! It will sound like a heard of bees coming at you.

I recently just got back from Dearborn, had some great meetings and got to see some amazing stuff..

Part of the discussions was about the exhaust, I was told again the the stock exhaust has very minimal backpressure, espically the cat back system. This coincides with my findings after doing a complete cat back.. I got nothing to speak of for all that money spent.

So with that being said.. if I was to do it again knwing what I know now and knowing that your only going to get sound, I would do what I did with my v8sho.

Remove the third cat and resonator and replace them with a x-pipe only, and keep the stock mufflers.

 

[PonySHO]

It was an idea I wanted opinions on. Guess that it's not going to do what I want.

 

[shobob]

I took the car over to my friend's muffler shop and I got my first look under the car. I am going to take SHODWN add vice and just do the X pipe for now.

 

[PonySHO]

I took the car over to my friend's muffler shop and I got my first look under the car. I am going to take SHODWN add vice and just do the X pipe for now.

Are you going to also remove the 3rd cat, the muffler behind it and leave the rest stock?

 

[shobob]

Yes that is the plan.

 

[SHOsc]

Can't wait to hear how it turns out. you getting it done this week?