CL55 X Pipe or H pipe or??
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CL55 X Pipe or H pipe or??
Hello everyone I have a 2003 CL55 and it has the stock exhaust but it is a little too silent for me coming from a straight piped CL500 anyways I have been reading around to find out whats best to do. My idea was to remove the resonators and in its place put an X pipe or an H pipe, from what I read online one gives you more low end torque and one more higher rpm peak power,
but I also read that both reduce back pressure which lowers the supercharger psi but its a good thing which from what I read means that even with lower psi you make more power. I also saw that one gives it a more American v8 sound and the other one a more exotic v8 sound. Which do you guys think would be best to do? my car is still stock but I will eventually be moving into cooling upgrades then pulley and all that good stuff, I also wanted to ask for which ever one I go for what size x pipe or h pipe do I have to buy so it fits good? I do not know what size the stock exhaust is right before the resonators. If there is a better option for me to do please let me know this is what I had in mind but there could be something else to do.
Thanks!
but I also read that both reduce back pressure which lowers the supercharger psi but its a good thing which from what I read means that even with lower psi you make more power. I also saw that one gives it a more American v8 sound and the other one a more exotic v8 sound. Which do you guys think would be best to do? my car is still stock but I will eventually be moving into cooling upgrades then pulley and all that good stuff, I also wanted to ask for which ever one I go for what size x pipe or h pipe do I have to buy so it fits good? I do not know what size the stock exhaust is right before the resonators. If there is a better option for me to do please let me know this is what I had in mind but there could be something else to do.
Thanks!
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So did you get your exhaust done yet? I was thinking of trying to put some cut-outs in upstream of the resonators and see how it sounds.
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did them today, I put an x pipe where the secondary cats went and straight pipes for the resonators, it sounds good gonna post a video tomorrow
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Nice! Did you fab this up or did you find a kit for it? Did you install it? Got any pictures of the install? Ready for the video and I bet it does sound good.
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It was fabricated for my car pretty easy I have all the videos of when they where doing it gonna post them up soon just need last couple sound clips.
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