The Results are IN!!!

[93Rubie]

So I FINALLY got around to having my Brother make a few vids for youtube on my X pipe and muffler eliminator equipped Corvette, here are the results...let the questions of what is on it begin!!!

YouTube - C4 Corvette Muffler Eliminators

YouTube - C4 Corvette Acceleration

YouTube - C4 Corvette

REDLINE FOR A GOOD TIME!!!

GIVE'ER!!!

 

[dogfish246]

Sweet! Nice videos; we need more people with different exhausts showing their videos like you...

So your Vette is stock with cats, x-pipe, and straight pipes all the way back...

Hows the interior resonance?

 

[bucket]

sounds good and seems pretty quick for a C4....

 

[Derek]

Yeah...really cool the way you drove across the cross road...:ugh :eek

 

[93Rubie]

Yeah...really cool the way you drove across the cross road...:ugh :eek

Dude, if you observe carefully the other roads EACH have stop signs at the end of them. The road I am on has NONE at that intersection, I have right of way. Road is very rural only about 1 mile from my house, very little traffic. In fact we only saw one car while we where filming and that took about 15 minutes. There are more DEER on that road than cars, no joke.

When I had just the muffler eliminators on it with the stock resonator, the interior resonance was HORRIBLE. The x-pipe cut WAY THE HECK down. Very manageable, since I drive with the windows down and/or the top out most of the time, it is a non issue. However, it isn't bad with the car closed up at all, can carry on a conversation, listen to radio, etc...certain RPM' S create more, but at cruising speeds especially around 55 MPH it is basically non-existent just a nice low burble out back.

The car is a 6 speed so that may have a little to do with the appearance of quickness, not that it isnt quick, GM says its good for 14.0 or better in the 1/4 mile. I think the x pipe and muffler eliminator might have made it a little faster, hard to tell, from seat of the pants. SURE HAS HELL SOUNDS BETTER!!! YES IT STILL HAS THE CATS, would be louder than a Harley if it didnt.

I fired it up when I was putting on the x-pipe with nothing but open cats, you would be surpised how much muffling they do, was LOUD but not STUPID LOUD.

 

[bucket]

Dude, if you observe carefully the other roads EACH have stop signs at the end of them. The road I am on has NONE at that intersection, I have right of way. Road is very rural only about 1 mile from my house, very little traffic. In fact we only saw one car while we where filming and that took about 15 minutes. There are more DEER on that road than cars, no joke.

When I had just the muffler eliminators on it with the stock resonator, the interior resonance was HORRIBLE. The x-pipe cut WAY THE HECK down. Very manageable, since I drive with the windows down and/or the top out most of the time, it is a non issue. However, it isn't bad with the car closed up at all, can carry on a conversation, listen to radio, etc...certain RPM' S create more, but at cruising speeds especially around 55 MPH it is basically non-existent just a nice low burble out back.

The car is a 6 speed so that may have a little to do with the appearance of quickness, not that it isnt quick, GM says its good for 14.0 or better in the 1/4 mile. I think the x pipe and muffler eliminator might have made it a little faster, hard to tell, from seat of the pants. SURE HAS HELL SOUNDS BETTER!!! YES IT STILL HAS THE CATS, would be louder than a Harley if it didnt.

I fired it up when I was putting on the x-pipe with nothing but open cats, you would be surpised how much muffling they do, was LOUD but not STUPID LOUD.

.
word is, them Pennsylvania deer are monstrous big..
a full grown white tail in arkansas , from 150 to 200 lbs would be a big deer, and in texas anything over 100 lbs is a monster..
but i hear about 4 and 500 lb deer up north where you are..that would like hitting a cow..
ouch..lol..the loud pipes should keep you safe from that encounter..
i never had a problem with critters while driveing a loud vehicle..
God bless
s:cool

 

[mbwebb]

Components?

Could you list where you got all the parts for your exhaust and the total cost? BTW it sounds awesome!!!!!

 

[XLR8]

Sounds like a beast! Nice videos too.

Just thought I'd mention... have you guys heard of

VetteTube - Corvette Videos, Corvette Babes, Corvette Pics, Corvette Burnouts, Corvette Mods

Tought you may want to post them there also.

Jane Ann

 

[tonylong]

Damn !!!

 

[93Rubie]

Bucket, I don't know about 400 0r 500lb deer here in PA, they are bigger than Texas or Southern Deer, probably at least 150 or 200 on up for the bigger ones. We Pennsylvanians love our Deer Hunting.

I got the muffler eliminators from Corvette Central Exhaust for 150 plus shipping.

The X Pipe was from Advanced Automotive of Cape Coral

Was 75 plus shipping.

I used 4 stainless steel band clamps from Advanced Auto Parts 10 each. Two for the muffler eliminators, and 2 for the x pipe in the rear.

I used two 2.75" U clamps up front of the x pipe just back of cats to secure them in place, NOT enough room for a band clamp. THESE come with the ELIMINATORS but I decided to use them elsewhere.

I had a local muffler shop expand the ends of my x pipe where they fit over the pipes going to the stock resonator. I then had the rear pipe behind the resonator expanded so the x pipe fits inside it. DOES NOT LEAK ONE BIT.
ONE bit of WARNING: 16 year old exhuast systems do NOT like to expand one of mine split, but no big deal, it wasnt TOO big of one. A little exhuast cement and it was sealed up. FIND SOMEONE WHO IS GOOD at it, they guy that did mine was GOOD, he has been messing with Vettes for a long time, and knew what I was doing when I walked in.

Kind of cobbled together, I recommend just having a muffler shop weld it in. WARNING, you WILL have to cut the cross pieces that hold the stock system pipes together, so you can get the pipes spread enough to get them to fit to the X pipe.

I did this at home in my own garage on jack stands with nothing but a chain style exhaust pipe cutter, a few wrenches, a lot of swearing, a couple pry bars, and even a little blood. WAS A PAIN THE THE @$$, but as you can hear TOTALLY worth it.

So I spent a total of about 300 bucks in parts or so, will be a little more if you have someone else do the work.

I am an auto tech by profession so...that makes "customizing" my own exhaust easier than the average joe. For the not so mechanically inclined have it installed somewhere!!!