Interesting exhaust best sound i ever heard.
06-23-2005, 01:29 PM
#1
Le Mans Master
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Interesting exhaust best sound i ever heard.
Last saturday I was in a cruz in with about twenty other corvettes in Decatur, Ala. I was behing a pewter C5 with a Univ of ALA lic. plates and my son and both said that was the best sounding exhaust we had ever heard.... When we got to the cruz in location at Steak and Shake I had to ask him what kind of exhaust did he have? About that time several other corvette owners were asking him the same question and he just laughed and said my exhaust only cost about 85-100 dollars and that he had done it himself. Then he showed us the lower side of his vette where he had drilled two holes and places pipes into his exhaust and he also had a place where he could place caps on the pipes when he didnt want that mean sound. I told him he should go into the business of building those things and he just laughed!!!!!!!. 
06-23-2005, 04:30 PM
#6
Le Mans Master
Originally Posted by Patches
I've got a set of QTEC electric cutouts I installed on my x-pipe.
06-23-2005, 05:09 PM
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We used to do that when we were kids....
Go to the junk yard and buy a couple of gas tank fillers with caps intact and just weld 'em on the exhaust pipes before the mufflers. When we wanted the sound just crawl under the car and remove the gas caps.....
Go to the junk yard and buy a couple of gas tank fillers with caps intact and just weld 'em on the exhaust pipes before the mufflers. When we wanted the sound just crawl under the car and remove the gas caps.....
06-23-2005, 05:19 PM
#10
Melting Slicks
Just love cut-outs. Can just barely crack them open for a really nice tone or zing um all the way and shake your teeth out of your head!
Nothing sounds better than two 3 inch pipes pumping out ponies! At highway speed I close um down to stop the rather dramatic drone / resonance - it's deafening inside!
Nothing sounds better than two 3 inch pipes pumping out ponies! At highway speed I close um down to stop the rather dramatic drone / resonance - it's deafening inside!
06-23-2005, 05:24 PM
#11
Team Owner
Originally Posted by Patches
06-23-2005, 05:54 PM
#13
Drifting
Originally Posted by Sandra Bigwoode
So he invented 'lake pipes' like California hot rodders used on the dry lakes in the 20's and 30's?
Wow! After nearly 50 years of knowing the term 'lakers' and 'lake pipes' and seeing them on cars in late '50s - early 60s, I never knew until today (your post). Where the term came from!
Wow, wow, wow! Learn somethin' new everyday!
Do you know more than that about the origins of lakers? I thought they became popular in the '50s. You say '20s-30s. Are you sure about the 20s? Cars weren't to cool in the 20s. And what kid had $$$ for a car in the 20's? Then the Depression. You sure it wasn't 40's?
Do you have any further historical background? What I imagine is, kids wanted to hear unrestricted exhaust so they tapped into the exhaust system with a long straight pipe then went out on the dry lakes as you mentioned away from their neighborhoods so they could hear them unplugged.
Do you know where that might have started more specifically?
..rickko..
06-23-2005, 06:32 PM
#14
Really great Patches, I'd also like to know where and how much and how to install. Assume you can control from the cockpit and can shut them off completely to return to "normal sound" I have corsa and x pipe from magnaflow and assume it would work well on this. Thanks for the info.
06-23-2005, 06:58 PM
#15
Team Owner
The video I posted previously is with my cats still in place. I have the FLP header system with the quick-change setup where I can easily swap in a set of straight pipes in place of the cats for a racing setup. I've been meaning to try that with the cutouts open and shoot another video. 
It was roughly $400 for the electric cutouts and to have the turndowns fabbed and welded on at a local exhaust shop. I did the wiring and harness routing myself at home before taking it to the exhaust shop. I bought the cutouts from forum vendor QTP (look under Headers in the vendor list at the left).
I did a CAD drawing of what I wanted so the exhaust guy knew what to fab.
The electric valves are controlled by a single switch in the car.
Here's a website with some pics of the install.
http://redshift.homestead.com/cutouts.html
It was roughly $400 for the electric cutouts and to have the turndowns fabbed and welded on at a local exhaust shop. I did the wiring and harness routing myself at home before taking it to the exhaust shop. I bought the cutouts from forum vendor QTP (look under Headers in the vendor list at the left).
I did a CAD drawing of what I wanted so the exhaust guy knew what to fab.
The electric valves are controlled by a single switch in the car.
Here's a website with some pics of the install.
http://redshift.homestead.com/cutouts.html
06-23-2005, 10:49 PM
#19
Team Owner
cool!
you guy's are too much!!!you're going to make me start doing all my own work...and i ain't no mechanic!!~!that exhaust setup is real nice!so,i get the gas filler thing,cut a hole in the pipe under the car,weld the gas thing on and that's it???
