I finally found a shop with enough time to take my money. I got 2.25" piping from the main cat back to a straight through tseudo muffler. It gave me a noticible difference in power and a nice deep bassey(sp?) tone to it.
it is noticably loud, depending on what kind of throttle I am giving it. I want more power but am happy with how my exhaust sounds now. if i replaced my precats with headers and kept the main cat or went with a more free-flowing one would that make my car much louder?

 

yes!

 

I just got back from lunch and it refreshed my memory on how burl my car sounds now. and as an odd coincidence I can hardly tell that the clutch is slipping