exhaust system

[h949h]

anyone ever run no y pipe? just a straight exhaust?

 

[NotSoSlowSHO]

Yeah, and it is WAAAYYY louder than you would ever imagine.

Enough to rattle windows at idle.

And need ear muffs at revs.

 

[Eric VerValin]

Yea but it sounds like a damn stock car... and is sexy as ****! I remember when my Y pipe pooped on me, and I went with the "free flow" mod...

Nothing subtle at all with the car at that point. I think the sound waves at the back of the car actually help push you forward creating "horsepower" lol I dunno I liked it, but yelling at the person sitting next to you inside the car gets old kinda quick.

 

[h949h]

nice. yea i knew it would be loud! are there any horsepower gains, im thinking its better since it eliminates the pesky y pipe. im making a track car, so i dont really need to talk tot eh person next to me!

 

[SHOtime2511]

nice. yea i knew it would be loud! are there any horsepower gains, im thinking its better since it eliminates the pesky y pipe. im making a track car, so i dont really need to talk tot eh person next to me!

no its not better.
you will loose horsepower,torque,functioning o2 sensors,hearing,money(tickets),friendliness of your neighbors,ext.

 

[LOUDSHO92]

Also a lot of tracks have some sort of noise restrictions.

You could go with a free flowing y-pipe and catback from SHO Source...

 

[NewSHOdriver]

I've always wanted to retain the dual exhaust look but i think straight pipes would be sick I would love to see someone make a x-pipe for the SHO so i could have dual exhaust. Maybe some CUSTOM exhaust would seem cool. I've always wondered if you would lose power with a x pipe compared to Y-pipe (in v'8s i think you gain but you don't need as much back pressure) Since i've heard you lose power from swapping out?

 

[jedhead]

An X-Pipe is harder to design since you should have an equal length of pipe to the "X". Also where the "X" is makes a difference. Here is a link to a custom race exhaust for highly modded SHO (Ernie's).

https://www.drgas.net/mediaitem.php?itemid=40

Youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sEp8bhnd7bo

Bob

 

[h949h]

well, im thinking about putting the SHo in a front mounted kit car, but i was gonna do a side exauhst like the shelby cobra, just straight from the headers out. would i lose?

 

[LOUDSHO92]

Yes but some sort of exhaust on. Supertraps will work like on the SHO Gun.

 

[h949h]

ok, well thanks for the input guys

 

[SHO_ROLLER_2]

I miss my straight pipes. NO CATs or anything.


It did sound like a stock car though. I'll never forget the looks on peoples faces when they saw where that noise was coming from!