Hey Gang!
O.K. Here's the question for all of you exhaust experts out there (gal's included, of course!):
At the car wash today a guy came in with a '98 Mustang with the 4.6 Liter Mill under the hood. It sounded real nice. Deep low, but not excessively loud rumble. Asked him to pump the throttle a couple of times so I could here how it sounded at different rev's. Had a sweet sound to it. Sort of reminded me of the old 351 Cleveland's with mellowtone muffler's (no I'm not getting old! just older!)
Anyhow, he had nice looking stainless steel tips welded to the end of the exhaust system. Funny thing! When I looked under the car there were'nt any mufflers in site! He said that all he had done was to have the mufflers removed but kept the catalytic converters on for enough back pressure for the engine! Claims that he had it done at a professional exhaust shop and that the shop claimed that the catalytic converters will last lots longer without the mufflers to restrict the rearward flow.
Also, the only thing added to this deal was replacing the mufflers with exhaust pipes conformed to the angles of the mufflers.
Anyone ever heard or seen this setup?? ....Jack....
O.K. Here's the question for all of you exhaust experts out there (gal's included, of course!):
At the car wash today a guy came in with a '98 Mustang with the 4.6 Liter Mill under the hood. It sounded real nice. Deep low, but not excessively loud rumble. Asked him to pump the throttle a couple of times so I could here how it sounded at different rev's. Had a sweet sound to it. Sort of reminded me of the old 351 Cleveland's with mellowtone muffler's (no I'm not getting old! just older!)
Anyhow, he had nice looking stainless steel tips welded to the end of the exhaust system. Funny thing! When I looked under the car there were'nt any mufflers in site! He said that all he had done was to have the mufflers removed but kept the catalytic converters on for enough back pressure for the engine! Claims that he had it done at a professional exhaust shop and that the shop claimed that the catalytic converters will last lots longer without the mufflers to restrict the rearward flow.
Also, the only thing added to this deal was replacing the mufflers with exhaust pipes conformed to the angles of the mufflers.
Anyone ever heard or seen this setup?? ....Jack....