Muffler delete?

[serpint]

Has anyone with a 3" exhaust done a muffler delete? My fricken flowmaster 80 muffler keeps causing my exhaust to break its mount points (it managed to break 5 solid welds this time). So I have gotten tired of having to get everything re-welded every 2 months and am now contemplating deleting the heavy muffler and adding a bullet muffler (or no muffler) inline with the I-pipe and then taking the over the axle pipe, running it into a Y back out to dual tips. Has anyone done this? How does it sound? Got any clips?

Also, I did a search, but it only went back to June of last year, and no one had posted any clips since.

[RallyRed 98]

since ohio does not have state inspection... go for it. who knows how the police will react to it, though.

i know eric (mustangeater) cut his exhaust off and i guess it sounded okay, but it still sounded like a 3.8 [img]redface.gif[/img] he had the stock 2.25" pipe, BTW. consider putting a resonator on there instead... you would at least get rid of some of the "noise" associated with straight pipes.

[serpint]

Well I am keeping the cat, but that muffler is really making me mad. The shear strength on the steel rods we used (I was told) were 80lbs each. So I had about 240lbs of combined shear strength at two hardpoints. Kind of scares me how easily they were broken.

['98 BlackBird]

I have the same exact muffler and I have not had any problem at all and our car goes over alot of bumps. Were the correct brackets welded correctly?

[serpint]

Yep, the brackets hold for a little bit, but you can see the stress points forming on them after about a week of daily driving. I suspect my suspension is a bit harder than most peoples as its designed for auto-x. That is probably a big part of the problem - but not exactly one I can remove.

[T-Punk]

i would also recomend a resonator or a glass pack to lower the noise. there arent any inspections here in florida either but the cops do listen for this kind of stuff. i know a guy with a v6 mustang that just got a ticket for it. so yeah you do still have to worry about them, plus ive driven through Ohio and the cops there are total *******s imo.

[serpint]

How well do dynomax 16" bullet mufflers lower exhaust noise? I may wind up installing two of those (one on each end of the post-cat Y pipe) if I can't get my exhaust fixed permanently.

[99BlueSuperSix]

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eB...category=33636

[serpint]

Would work great, except I don't have a stock exhaust by any means [img]smile.gif[/img]

[2000camarostud]

it'll be VERY loud and prolly rhaspy if you do that.

[serpint]

i figured as much after doing some more searching. hopefully the shop i am taking it to tomorrow can rebuild the broken supports or put new ones in place. said they estimated 1 hours worth of work (last shop i had it to did it in 30 minutes) plus i got a 15% off coupon for the place and they seem to do a ton of work, so i figured why not.