No one asked but do you have a check engine light on at any time, if so start by checking your stored codes and go from there.
As far as making your sho sound "mean" like a V6 or V8 GM car forget it it, its not going to happen, That deep sound is from american pushrod motors and longer piston strokes, our shos are pure rice. We get higher RPMs but less growllll.If you get high flow cats, put on a wider catback, remove the resonator and install dual fart cans, youll sound just like a dual exhaust 6 cylinder CRX with fart cans and drop about 1200.00 bucks for the pleasure of decreased performance because of lost back pressure and most likely a couple of tickets for noise violations or at least unwanted attention from the authorities, plus your emmisions problems will have just begun. Just a few facts tossed in with my IMHO BTW before anyone gets insulted when I first bought my sho and didnt know better I dropped 1100.00 in high flow cats and dual high flow "Reactive" SS fart cans trying to get it to growl, it just sounds like a 6 cylinder CRX with fart cans, although IMO it looks good with the pipes, it really only turned out to be expensive cosmetics that get dragged on the asphalt everytime my car car breaks down and has to be towed home as I cringe. LOL