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Side Exit Exhaust on lowered 8

Old 05-28-2010, 04:25 PM
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Lightbulb Side Exit Exhaust on lowered 8

Hey guys I'm contemplating a side exit exhaust for my 8, kind of like the ones on the 99 mustang Roush (pictured below). My car is lowered though. The setup I want to use is a 3" resonator after the header, after that a "y" pipe splitting the 3" piping to 2.25" to the sides, then a smaller resonator for each side and finally a silencer for both sides.

Looking into resonator and silencer diameters the smallest I could find that might work were 4" in diameter. This would give me zero ground clearance. If somebody has any input or knows of different components that might work please let me know.
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do it.
you could send it out the stone guard at the bottom the rear fenders
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unless you're planning on cutting into the body to recess the pipes it's going to look stupid beyond what words could describe. stick some pipe underneath the car in the area you want to do this.. stand a few feet back, then think to yourself "how bad does this look?"

I know everyone wants their car to be a unique snowflake, but there are some things that require more work then others to pull off. This is one of those things.
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Screw the side exhaust and just run 3 straight pipes from the exhaust ports right up out the top of the hood.
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already looked into it with my mazdaspeed sides and there is not enough clearance to cut out a hole to make it flush, which is the only way it would look good. So unless you plan on cutting into the body panels like stated above, then just stay away.
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Originally Posted by laythor
unless you're planning on cutting into the body to recess the pipes it's going to look stupid beyond what words could describe. stick some pipe underneath the car in the area you want to do this.. stand a few feet back, then think to yourself "how bad *** does this look?"

I know everyone wants their car to be a unique snowflake, but there are some things that require more work then others to pull off. This is one of those things.
Yea and doing nothing because of jackasses like yourself who are just pushing there post count with inept responses would help. I AM AWARE THAT THIS WOULD REQUIRE MORE WORK "THAN" OTHERS TO PULL OFF. That's the purpose of this thread.
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If you want your car to look terrible, just get the failside body kit and call it a day.
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Originally Posted by Spoolin8
already looked into it with my mazdaspeed sides and there is not enough clearance to cut out a hole to make it flush, which is the only way it would look good. So unless you plan on cutting into the body panels like stated above, then just stay away.
I'm going to purchase some cheapo side skirts so I can cut a hole into them and not feel so bad about it. And if I need to cut into some of the body panels that will be fine with me just worried about the subframe.
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Originally Posted by mysql101
If you want your car to look terrible, just get the failside body kit and call it a day.
When are side exit exhaust eye sores?
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Originally Posted by tonedef
Yea and doing nothing because of jackasses like yourself who are just pushing there post count with inept responses would help. I AM AWARE THAT THIS WOULD REQUIRE MORE WORK "THAN" OTHERS TO PULL OFF. That's the purpose of this thread.
Lighten up Francis. You asked for opinions and you got it.
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Originally Posted by tonedef
When are side exit exhaust eye sores?
when they are on a car they dont belong on

get smokestacks instead
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Originally Posted by alnielsen
Lighten up Francis. You asked for opinions and you got it.
I know just looking for ideas more than opinions though.

Originally Posted by deadphoenix52
when they are on a car they dont belong on

get smokestacks instead
But still, there's people stuffing V8s that sure as hell don't belong in cars too.
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Originally Posted by laythor
I know everyone wants their car to be a unique snowflake, but there are some things that require more work then others to pull off. This is one of those things.
That was good for a laugh, thank you!
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Who said it don't look good?
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Originally Posted by Joshua_06Shinka



Who said it don't look good?
I'll say it.
That's one of the ugliest 8's I've ever seen.
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Originally Posted by BigCajun
I'll say it.
That's one of the ugliest 8's I've ever seen.
Lol why would you lie to me and everyone else on here? ��
What does your girl look like?
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Only someone who watched too many Fast & Furious movies and thought they were real would route their exhaust under the PPF/driveshaft in the process of putting it out the side, which is what the picture above indicates. How does that make any more sense than routing it out the back? This is ignoring all the other JDM boy racer stylng mods the car is out-fitted in.

Real race cars with side exhausts either pass it through a stripped interior boxed inside sheetmetal or rework the floorpan sheet metal with a tunnel for it to pass through. It doesn't get routed under the floor pan with only 2" of ground clearance.



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