[arpad_m]

Those crushed pipe sections aren't a restriction up to a very high power level, which has been proven over and over again.

The one removal scenario that might help in any way (apart from esthetics of course) is if you get longtube headers and want to install a resonator in place of the crushed pipe sections to quiet the car down at WOT and make cold starts less earth shattering, maybe even take the edge of the rasp off a bit. I kept the stock NPP muffler, too, and I see how someone may want that.