right, so I'm going to get the main cats chopped out and straight pipes welded in. I'm looking at the exhaust system diagram however, and the O2 sensors are *before* the cats...do I need to get these coded out? Or leave them and have them installed into the straight pipes?
And any thoughts about chopping out the resonators? My understanding has usually been that the resonators got rid of drone, and the end mufflers took care of silencing. Loudness is good, but droning exhausts on the highway gets pretty annoying.
Anyone with non-res exhausts, comments on the exhaust volume when cruising at 80mph for long periods of time? Is it still pretty quiet? (stock, it's dead silent, I can't even hear wind buffeting, just tire noise really).
What is going to be most cost-effective for me at this point to reduce backpressure and open up the exhaust note is to "cut and paste" - cut out the resonators and underbody cats, and weld in straight pipes. The SE muffler section will remain unmolested, and I'll eventually get around to getting rid of the precats and maybe even fab up a straight pipe final section so I can swap the SE mufflers in and out, for when I really want to raise hell....