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Old 31st July 2012, 00:17   #11
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Rogue x-pipe with "their" resonators. I did not alter the Rogue pipe at all.
Ok. That's kind of what I thought.

So it is still unknown what a car that has headers + cat delete + stock resonator + muffler delete sounds like?

Btw, your car DOES sound amazing.
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Old 31st July 2012, 00:22   #12
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Ok. That's kind of what I thought.

So it is still unknown what a car that has headers + cat delete + stock resonator + muffler delete sounds like?

Btw, your car DOES sound amazing.
I still think it will be extremely loud, especially at hwy speeds. Removing the cats added lots of volume to every setup other than the stock cans which we know are very quiet.
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I still think it will be extremely loud, especially at hwy speeds. Removing the cats added lots of volume to every setup other than the stock cans which we know are very quiet.
Interesting.. I thought that the screaming came from just removing the resonator and that the cats did very little for sound..

So many different configurations for sound.... lol
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well....ive got one person telling me it will sound like it has just a muffler delete and one person saying taking the cats off will make it much louder
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well....ive got one person telling me it will sound like it has just a muffler delete and one person saying taking the cats off will make it much louder
???Who is saying this? I have personal experience with removing the cats with many different mufflers and I will tell you 100% removing the cats will make the car conciderably louder. Especially with a free flowing muffler or no muffler at all.
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???Who is saying this? I have personal experience with removing the cats with many different mufflers and I will tell you 100% removing the cats will make the car conciderably louder. Especially with a free flowing muffler or no muffler at all.
If you go back 4 posts I said that.. Oops lol.

You are probably right though because my experience with removing cats was on a turbo car..
I had a 300zx twin turbo that had no cats.. I put oem cats back on the car and the sound didn't change..
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it depends how sensitive your ears are, "way too loud" for you may just be perfect for me or him
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just had a thought, and my logic may be flawed here but its a theory:

when the car is cold, the cats haven't had a chance to warm up-so its almost like they're not there right? would the volume level during cold start be comparable to having the cats removed? keep in mind the mufflers are already off.


just a thought. the car is getting them off soon enough, so ill take some videos for everyone and then there will be concrete results.
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No. Cold start volume has nothing to do with cold cats. Ask anyone with the quiet start tune from Evolve.
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No. Cold start volume has nothing to do with cold cats. Ask anyone with the quiet start tune from Evolve.
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