Exhaust Cutouts?

[FidyStang]

I have a friend who has a V6 Mustang with FRPP Dual Exhaust and a BBK Cold Air intake and he is considering installing Electric Cutouts..

Does anyone have any input on how these would sound on a V6?

Any and all input is appreciated. Thanks.

 

[07stangcs]

Cutouts sound like shit on a V8... Cant imagine how shitty it would sound on a V6! Cutouts are only good for a turbo car with a dumped downtube...

 

[RED09GT]

Try and talk him out of it. Please! Although they will certainly make more noise (and it will sound ear bleedingly terrible), 99.9% of people will say "what a douche!" rather than "damn that sounds cool!" when he uses them.
I've started a SOHC 4.0L explorer motor with just the manifolds and y-pipe for testing and it was a memorably painful experience.
What is it with kids these days all wanting electric cut-outs?

 

[Hawgman]

Probably going to sound like a pissed off bumble bee in an empty beer can

 

[FidyStang]

Hahaha. ya I have told him that. Maybe now that he will hear from other people he will believe us. Thanks guys. any other comments or suggestions are appreciated.

 

[ChiDiddy]

Cutouts sound like shit on a V8... Cant imagine how shitty it would sound on a V6! Cutouts are only good for a turbo car with a dumped downtube...

Id have to disagree. I have dual cutouts on my car along with LTs and no cats and it is only really loud when i start the car with them open. Other than that, i think they sound better then loud mouths, boomtubes, etc on my friends car. When you rev it up, its just plain scary, muscle loudness.... Nothing bad about it.

 

[Charlie Sheen]

Cutouts sound like shit on a V8... Cant imagine how shitty it would sound on a V6! Cutouts are only good for a turbo car with a dumped downtube...

Id have to disagree. I have dual cutouts on my car along with LTs and no cats and it is only really loud when i start the car with them open. Other than that, i think they sound better then loud mouths, boomtubes, etc on my friends car. When you rev it up, its just plain scary, muscle loudness.... Nothing bad about it.

What ChiDidy said.

 

[hamish]

Id have to disagree. I have dual cutouts on my car along with LTs and no cats and it is only really loud when i start the car with them open. Other than that, i think they sound better then loud mouths, boomtubes, etc on my friends car. When you rev it up, its just plain scary, muscle loudness.... Nothing bad about it.

That's right brotha' nothin but a bunch of haters.

 

[robs]

If it's too loud, you're too old!

With LT... it would be freaking awesome on a 4.6..

 

[RED09GT]

If it's too loud, you're too old!

With LT... it would be freaking awesome on a 4.6..

If it's loud and doesn't run 10's, it's just gay...

 

[Charlie Sheen]

If it's loud and doesn't run 10's, it's just gay...

Bullshit.

 

[don_w]

I had the electric cutouts on mine for a while, and I loved them. They sounded awesome. BUT... they don't last forever. Mine quit sealing right after a year or so, and I just capped the pipes off. To expensive to have to replace every year.

 

[moostang09]

I beg to differ.. here is my v6 with an S&B intake and tune with dual exhaust and dual cutouts..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4E_PwTPqoJw

 

[bolted3v]

Try and talk him out of it. Please! Although they will certainly make more noise (and it will sound ear bleedingly terrible), 99.9% of people will say "what a douche!" rather than "damn that sounds cool!" when he uses them.
I've started a SOHC 4.0L explorer motor with just the manifolds and y-pipe for testing and it was a memorably painful experience.
What is it with kids these days all wanting electric cut-outs?

one question? is there such thing as crystallizing the valves too? there a guy with a camaro that had them and "surprisingly he crystallized a valve in the winter time" ? never heard that before or unlesss they're full of caca.

 

[BSell]

Bullshit.

Why is it BS if a slow car has straight pipes for an exhaust?

I figure the average Joe can appreciate a car that rips ass and is loud over some slow shitbox with the same loud exhaust.

Think of me putting cutouts on my wife's 4 door Focus auto...totally BS!

Do the same to many of the seriously built cars on this forum and tell me which one you'd want to hear coming down the road...I figure 'Joe' could appreciate those.

 

[BSell]

one question? is there such thing as crystallizing the valves too? there a guy with a camaro that had them and "surprisingly he crystallized a valve in the winter time" ? never heard that before or unlesss they're full of caca.

Gasoline burned properly makes water (H2O) and carbon dioxide (CO2) and some other minor amounts of nitrogen based stuff.

So, all that steam you see out the tailpipes on cold mornings is a visual reminder of the dead dinosaurs you are burning up.

Besides driving a Chevy (why?), having cutouts become frozen shut for a period of time is believable and joking aside, not brand picky. Driving down the road a bit should fix the frozen flappers as the heat in the exhaust must surely travel to the cutoffs, thawing the accumulated ice from all of the 'steam' created.

I figure either the cutoffs are so far from the engine and the temps are so cold the cutoffs never get above freezing. If so, that's just poor engineering and pretty damn cold weather! Plus, the cutoffs are probably downhill from the rest of the exhaust, making them natural moisture catch-cans. Bad design if you ask me.

If I were to do cutouts, they would be close to the header collectors (LT), with pipes to extend the cutouts' dumps so they exhaust to the side of the car. Of course with a downhill run from header to tip so they naturally drain 'steam' accumulation.

 

[BSell]

I beg to differ.. here is my v6 with an S&B intake and tune with dual exhaust and dual cutouts..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4E_PwTPqoJw

Need more cowbell on that one... Who can hear the car for all that whining going on?

Try it again without music if you are proud of your sound...

 

[moostang09]

the music is turned down pretty low when i made the vid... it was also my first vid i have ever made so thx for the feed back. next time itll be more car less music...

 

[redstangs9308gt]

I call bs on moostang09. How about no music next time? My wife and I both have 08 stangs. Hers is a v6 and I don't care what kind of exhaust or lack there of you have on the car a V6 is a v6 is a v6 you can't make it sound like anything else. You might come close but there is still that v6 sound to it. Sorry..OH and PS I had my 8 sounding like a 4 for a while.....

 

[Charlie Sheen]

Why is it BS if a slow car has straight pipes for an exhaust?

I figure the average Joe can appreciate a car that rips ass and is loud over some slow shitbox with the same loud exhaust.

Think of me putting cutouts on my wife's 4 door Focus auto...totally BS!

Do the same to many of the seriously built cars on this forum and tell me which one you'd want to hear coming down the road...I figure 'Joe' could appreciate those.

So any car that "only" runs 11s should have stock exhaust or your buddy thinks it will sound gay? And check out the new multi-quote feature, it's like magic!