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The cat definitely keeps the sound from being too much… I have a cat bypass on my 911SC and occasionally run a muffler bypass as well.
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You get the muffler bypass set on Amazon for $120 or so?
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I've seen the inserts you can use, just don't know which would suit me, my mufflers were very rusty and the chrome looks better there.
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Muffler delete on a 996 is loud, drones and the tone sounds like a$$. Better option is to add that little partial bypass on each muffler, AKA gundo hack. If you want it loud but with a good tone the cats have to go and tuned equal length headers added. My opinion others may vary.
My 996 has aftermarket headers , catless x-pipe and some aftermarket SS mufflers of unknown manufacturer . I bought the mufflers used and cheap . Around town she's docile , mash the throttle and she has a nice growl with no resonance and not too loud .
well I got such a good deal on the set up with nice tips,I'm going to do it.we will hear how it goes, there's a full set of mufflers and pipes for s lot more cash i saw, but can't do that one.
wanted the gundo hack but being disabled it was not for me.Theses pipes came along and my son did them. the are too loud like a 10 but I prefer an 8 .
I've seen the inserts you can use, just don't know which would suit me, my mufflers were very rusty and the chrome looks better there. I ll look at car chemisrtry
and others
You get the muffler bypass set on Amazon for $120 or so? The Fabspeed version for $700 just seemed ridiculously overpriced for a few feet of tubing and tips. The reviews for the presumably Chinese made ones on Amazon were good, and it’s not like they are some critical stressed piece. The look great and fit up well, have had it on my 996 cabriolet for about a year and ~5k miles. It sounds incredible, particularly at high RPM.
Installation is really simple… I just jacked it up enough to take off the rear wheel on each side as I put them on. It’s maybe an hour project if you take a long time about it. Would be easy to swap the factory mufflers back on if I wanted but haven’t bothered yet.
Only time it’s been a bit too much was on a ~1,500 mile road trip. I had the removable hard top on the car which didn’t quite cut the sound as much as I thought it might. For daily driving it’s great, it’s my usual commute car when the weather is decent.
The cat definitely keeps the sound from being too much… I have a cat bypass on my 911SC and occasionally run a muffler bypass as well. It sounds amazing but it is hearing damage loud if you get on it much so most of the time I have a Fabspeed SuperCup on it. The SC with cat bypass and supercup is louder than 996 with cats but with muffler bypass.
Go on the Car Chemistry website you will see what ASD is asking about . My opinion is go 3 disc's if they will physically fit . I would also wrap the perforated tube with exhaust rated fiberglass . I wish the CC discs/tubes were made of stainless steel .
I bought the car chemistry baffles, got a few emails back and forth with the owner.
I also got the fiber glass exhaust wrap to compensate the size
.Both pipes with chrome tips were 100 bucks, the baffles are cheap too I'm a bit of a miser.
I'm excited to get them on, the pipes alone are too loud for me, but you don't know until you know.
the cc baffles were too big, the size was 2.5" I sent them back got the 2" they're to small,I feel like
goldilocks, I'll order the 2.25" that seems to be the one.
I'll be visiting a Porsche shop near me for their opinion.
well I ordered the 2.25 baffles and they fit very nicely.
Drone is mostly nil,overall sound is still loud but tolerable.Car Chemistry was helpful, and responsive.
And no I couldnt measure as I only have one usable hand,thank you.//
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