I want to go duals. Not because the SRT4 has duals, but because I like duals. Any way, heres an old pic a played with in paint. The "photoshop-wannabe-paint-edited" pics aren't the best but its what I am capable of doing.

A. Original


B. Duals with just a new cut-out


or C. Duals with a rolled lip (cut out the center of our OEM lip)

 

looks good with the two!

 

Looks sweet!

 

Never been a fan of duals on a 4 banger. Especially if there fart cans

 

^^^Fart cans? I'm probably going to change the mufflers to borlas or just tips and have one big cherry bomb. we'll see....

 

Yes fart cans. Not saying the samples up top are but I've seen dual fart cans on a cobalt and its UGLY, and sounds like ****

 

ok. i got ya

 

i'm loving the duals on the stock ss/sc bumper -- it looks stock, and get rid of the fart cans and put some single 3" or so tips on each side, it'll look sick

 

I'm a v8 guy, actually a mustang guy. On my 5.0 I have dual flowmasters and love 'em. But it's a v8.

4cyl = single
some v6 - v8s = duals

But to your effort, it's doesn't look bad. I just hope the sound is just as nice.

 

^^ I here ya. It's just that I want to stand out a liitle bit more than I do now. VV now has 3 Cobalts, two of which are blue.

 

^^ Yah I hear ya too...

I am one of the two SS's in my town.... but WE HAVE BILLIONS of 2.2s. 4 of which are RED and look basically just like mine... same wing, but lil smaller wheels, minus ss kit.

But to the average person my ss and the other red ls look the same... I personally think the wing is what does it the most, but that's just me.

 

I lost count of how many non ss's there are. all I know is that there are 3 ss/sc's in vv and another 2 blue ones in vellejo where I work.

 

Too many 4cylinders are coming with duals anymore for that to be a limiting factor.

Besides all the F-bodies after 1974 had fake duals and it worked great for them! Its just for looks, everyone knows it, and it looks great IMO! Hell I had duals on my 04 Cavi.! All the flow of straight pipe with none of the noise! WIN WIN!

 

Except my nem outlet won't be a dummy pipe. f that! That's just dumb imo.

 

its a 4 banger so duals is pointless unless you have it going from the engine all the way back but hey its your money do what you want...rice rice baby

 

So then the exhaust on every Camaro and FireBird built after 1974 is rice? True they're no 4 bangers but they had single going into dual tails.

I never thought of Bandits Trans Am as being rice.

 

stupidest thing i've heard today on here (which is really saying something) duals on any car regardless of cyls is not needed...and rice is such a stupid term anymore

 

....you all overuse the term "rice"

But on a Forced Induction car (more so a turbo application vs a supercharged) Dual Exhaust (even a Y pipe) is better than a single exhaust unless granted you keep the same size exhaust pipe.

But in short, "rice burners" might sound loud, and alot of you are rice in your own way. But, keep in mind, im going to laugh when your souped up Camaro, or Mustang gets whooped when a 400+whp civic comes roamin by you.

And 400whp isnt to far off with civics or any import, granted its turbocharged with other supporting mods.

In short, I like the duals with the regular oem cutout style. Im doin the same to my 2.4, im gettin the stock cutout manipulated on the other side and doing a Y pipe settup.

 

I like option C because it gives the car a completely different look which is cool. Option B isn't bad either it just looks like it came that way from the foctory which doesn't make it stand out as much in my opinion.

 

C. Looks sick.... how did u do that in paint?

later

 

^^I just opened the picture with paint then took the paint brush (black) and painted over what I wanted to delete. As for the tip, I highlighted it, copy and pasted it, and flipped the coppied image.



^^ That's what I was thinking. it's simple.

I've noticed that nearly every car that has duals from the factory has the piping converge into one pipe before splitting again. It doesn't make sense to me but if it works then why not.

 

well, for v8 or any v-setup engines, it's a good idea to have both exhaust pipes coming out of the engine converge at some point in order to equalize the pressure between both banks of cylinders. plus, one pipe takes up less room than two pipes, so by combining both pipes into one, then re-splitting it at the end, this takes up less space along the bottom of the car.

 

That's what I was thinking today when I was pdi'ing a silverado today.

Another question for ya'll:

Which?
A) Another DC Sports muffler
http://sportcompactonly.com/DC-Sport...75_p-10982.htm
or
B) Two Borla's
http://borla.com/products/product_multi_detail.aspx?cat=2&type=44&desc=Unive rsal+Mufflers%2c+Tubing+%26+Hardware|Boomer+Muffle rs
1)Wailtail
2)Thumper
or
http://borla.com/products/product_multi_detail.aspx?cat=2&type=88&desc=Unive rsal+Mufflers%2c+Tubing+%26+Hardware|S-Type
3)W/ a 4.5" tip

 

I got duals on my 2.4. I just had somebody cut-out the plastic on the right side, and just have a Y pipe after the rear axle. It looks great!!! I have 2 Magnaflows.

 

I'd run 2 Dynomax Turbo style mufflers, thats what I had on my Cavi. it looked great & sounded awesome! Nice deep tone nothing too loud and no bumble bee sound either!