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Originally Posted by JamesNoBrakes
Why are you doing an axle-back exhaust in the first place? It adds no power at all. It can make the exhaust louder, but some of that has to do with what is happening upstream of the axles as well. It makes a lot more sense to save up a bit more money and change out more of the system.
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This is the primary reason for the question. If there is no power gain, then the only point of changing the exhaust is to change the exhaust tone. I can't replace any components before or including the cats without affecting smog compliance (I don't want to go that route anymore).
In all of my previous cat-backs from a '88 Fox Body Mustang, '98 Camaro Z28, to a '04 Corvette Coupe, all of the bolted on to an existing flange of the OEM exhaust. I would be willing to do and cat-back that was a simple bolt in bolt out.
While I would like to change the exhaust sound to be more muscle car like, I don't want to cut up the stock pipes to do this. I see no real advantage to changing the muffler. So I will probably just keep it stock.