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Jan 8, 2013 | 11:52 AM

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maxwdg

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Jan 8, 2013 | 08:23 PM

#42

xenophobe

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Originally Posted by maxwdg

Has anybody out there "gutted" their cats? I mean, taken a big honkin' hammer and screwdriver and crush the material inside the cats - hollowing them out? How did that sound?

The stock cats are horribly designed. Even without internals, it's detrimental to performance to run the stock cats. It's a huge oval piece of sheet metal welded to a 90 degree iron bend at the bottom and a 45 at the top.

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Originally Posted by dinaros

Went to Meineke last week, removed the center resonator and left the rest intact. Not much difference in the sound. Then removed the next 2 mufflers leaving the rears. Sounded a little better. Went ahead and removed the rear two. Now it sounds like a tuner care, braaap. What can I do to get a better v8 sound??????????. Has an H pipe where the center resonator was removed.

Like I said previously, the stock cats are the problem if you want good sound. You can make it louder by removing/replacing mufflers, but to make it sound better, you need better cats. It makes a world of difference.