X-Pipe and Cats

[corvette00]

I own a 2000 C5. I wanted to know what some of you are using in terms of an X- Pipe and Hi Flow Cats. Also what diam?? Any help would be great, thanks...

 

[Mr. Lucky]

Magnaflow and Bassani are considered to be among the best. Go with stock diameter unless you have high flow demands (i.e., big cubes or supercharger) or a larger than stock OD catback.

Oh yeah... congrats on post #1 and welcome to

 

[johnm]

I installed a corsa indy pace car edition cat back with tiger shark quad tips.Stayed with the stock X pipe. The car sounds fantastic, low growl at idle, thunderous roar on wot, and quieter than the stock system at cruise.I love it. And oh ya, it looks bad *ss too! johnm.

 

[jrose7004]

I have a Corsa X-Pipe with my Corsa Pace Car System!

 

[Glenn W.]

bassani best

There are lots of threads here as to opinions on exhaust systems.....if you do a thread search, you will have more information than you can read in a day.....
BUT..........as long as we're here.....I've got the Corsa Indy's with Pro Tips and the Bassani X-Pipe. Take a look at the "X" section of the pipes you look at, and I think that you can see that the Bassani has the smoothest section with the most possibility of good scavenging from side to side. Some of the X pipes look like they were just a section of pipe cut from the inside of each and then welded together --- does not look to me like there would be much cross flow on these. Bassani's section is custom made to be a full X, with each side's flow scavenging the other......that's where you get the most effect and the most evening of the sound from side-to-side....
I LOVE the sound of my system....a DEEP idle with no motorboat burble...you can hold your hands over the ends and feel that the pulses are even....WOT inside of a tunnel with the top off is something you will have to hear to beleive.....the goosebumps should last several minutes if you are a gearhead at all.................

 

[Pac-man]

There is no stock x-pipe. C-5's come with an H-pipe. While installing an X-pipe will eliminate some burble on idle, and popping on decel, you will lose some backpressure and low end torque. You will gain some top-end hp. It depends on what you like. I love the popping on decel and the burble sound. Also, I would never add anything to my car that would reduce backpressure and low end torque. On the street, low-end is what it's all about. I don't care about the top-end. To me, with the minor mods that some of us have the X-pipe is useless. With that said, if you mod the car more extensively, there are possible applications for the X-pipe. Some of the top small block tuners stay with the H-pipe. Do a little research. By the way, whenever we get into these debates I always laugh to myself because the 3 or 4 lb/ft of torque that you either lose or gain is probably irrelevant in a real world application. It's fun talking about it though.

 

[Remo]

There By the way, whenever we get into these debates I always laugh to myself because the 3 or 4 lb/ft of torque that you either lose or gain is probably irrelevant in a real world application. It's fun talking about it though.

Pac-man,
I agree with you 100%. As for me I wasn't a big fan of the poping on decel so I added an x-pipe and it cleaned up the issue a little. I'm running the Borla Stingers and they tend to be a little on the aggressive sound when compared to the Corsa Touring system. So I get a great low burble on idle, a very smooth but aggressive sound on accel and a nice semi-smooth sound on decel. Works for me - love the car.

Remo:cool