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Old 04-17-02, 09:21 AM
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Thumbs down 12A with just headers

Thats all I can say... Due to some flanges not fitting, I had to drive down to the exhaust shop and back with only headers installed. I swear that thing was louder than my 350 V8 van was with just headers. I got some NASTY looks.. never again!
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just add one of those ficey mufflers and strait pipes lol
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very nice,...
i have started my engine up before with no exhaust what so ever (a day or two before i got my headers and the rest of the exhaust).. that was loud enough for me...
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I had to drive 40 miles like that one time when my exhaust self-destructed at the dragstrip. I gave up trying to be quiet and just drove full-out trying to be off the road as quickly as possible My ears were still ringing the next day.

I race like that, but I started getting bad headaches so I started wearing my helmet to cut the noise making it to my ears... made it a little better. And that was only for maybe a minute tops of running!
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two words..... ear plugs
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AH-HAHAHAHAHAHAA!!!!!

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peejay, you'll be proud to know at a scoreboard manufacturer designer's desk in a galaxy far far away, white trash and the earplugs is now a desktop. hope it isn't copyrighted, doh!
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Originally posted by riffraff
very nice,...
i have started my engine up before with no exhaust what so ever (a day or two before i got my headers and the rest of the exhaust).. that was loud enough for me...
when you do it like that you get a swet seperated exhaust note like its caming
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oh it was definatly nice.. just too loud to drive around with.
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Driven a turbo FB lately?

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Yeah those damn things are LOUDER than hell w/o any exhasut
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Dude, just go to a junkyard and yoink an old exhaust off an 83 Rx-7. They might even just let you have it for nothing.
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I remember replacing the exhaust manifold on my sisters mustang, I removed it and realized that i needed it on ramps, drove it up the drive way onto car ramps with no exhaust manifold... THAT was loud.

cheers'
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I drove mine to the muffler shop with only a pacesetter header on there... the noise was bad enough, but I thought the incredible vibration from under the floorboards was going to rattle my teeth out! The flames shooting out when I decelerated were pretty cool though!

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A friend of mine wants to bet me that his F-150 is louder than my 7 with open headers. HA!
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when i checked to see if my cat was plugged, i ran it for a little with only headers, it was loud as hell. with only headers my car wont hold idle very well and has a very un-steady noise all the way through the rpm's, it still sounds sweet
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