is a manual cutout before a bullet muffler worth it?
 

ive been thinking about this setup for awhile... im gonna have my exhaust welded onto my car within the next week and have the guys (theyre my brothers friends) chop my cat off and replace it with a bullet muffler. ive been thinkin about putting a manual cutout before the bullet for track use only. would this really be worth the $50+? would i see any gains at all?

Probably barely any.

i doubt it would help, bullet mufflers are plenty efficiant for your application. do you still have a cat on the cat? putting it before the cat would be a big help.

cat on the cat tim?? :lol: yea the stock cats still on there thats why when im gettin the exhaust welded up is said "theyre choppin the cat off" put your glasses on and read next time old man! :twisted:

ive read places (mainly on fullthrottle) that the muffler is also a bottleneck in the exhaust so thats where the cutout b4 the cat idea came from...

Bullet mufflers aren't really mufflers. :twisted:

Why manual!?

that i know :twisted:

cuz i cant justify spending +/- $160 for something im barely ever gonna use and that will give me minimal gains (if any) plus ive heard that they crap out eventually (was it you that had theirs crap out when it was like 3/4 of the way closed??)

Yeppers. You probably won't gain much from the cutout which makes buying an electric one a waste of money.

uhm....your car will sound fawking awful with a cutout...please dont

:stupid:

the 98 V6 car had one...sounded like crap above 1200 rpms :lol:

the 00 GTP has one...sounds like crap when open period.

But won't it add 1 hp? :nod:

The electric cut-out on my car has been a champ, the only time It gave me trouble was when I had a ****** turn-down on it that the butterfly plate got cought on a few times.

i remember when kasey and i were messin around with his bullet muffler and he had the bright idea to turn his car on when i was sitting right next to the y pipe, i was loud as all hell at idle and didnt sound that bad but then again he barely revved it up. i guess ill just save my money for other stuff

3800 sounds like garbage save your money **** the bullet just put a straight pipe in place of the cat really no differece!

open y on my car sounds decent at idle and crap at anything else

mine sounded hawt and you all know it. well, up until about 2800rpm

my car sounds good with an open y

trust me, there is a huge difference in teh tone and volume if there is no bullet muffler there. the bullet quiets it down a lot.