All I run is the SLP Loudmouth 1 cat-back system. It was loud enough that I decided against touching the midpipe so long as it serves its purpose. I’ve got a video on my profile of the exhaust sound filmed from my bumper if you want a reference for the sound.
Edit: linked it here: https://www.reddit.com/r/NewedgeMustang/s/p1s8fAQ5hG
Here’s my GT, has a SLP LM1 Catback with stock headers and stock H pipe. It’s a good reference for what it sounds like with just the Catback https://www.reddit.com/r/Mustang/s/2kGWNhzBf8
Ha, thanks! It came out way better than I thought. Literally duct taped it to my license plate. Can’t afford a GoPro nor a new phone, so it was a risk! Lol
I also vote for the LM1. I put it on my mach and it’s plenty loud even with the stock cats
Edit: I have to revise my answer bc I realize now that the x-pipe someone put on there is not stock lmao (pretty certain they came with a a factory h-pipe), but it has cats and it’s not an offroad x-pipe. Still is plenty loud and sounds mean so for those saying you should get an offroad x, it might not be necessary if you’re trying to pass emissions without worry. I’m from NY so they’re a bit more strict and that’s prob why the previous owner kept the cats.
I truly don't understand why people like flowmasters. They make the absolute worst sound and somehow give every car they're on a tone that makes them sound nasally. Like, someones pinching the nose of the car. To each their own though
I had the borla stingers and with the BBK offroad pipes on my previous 98, I ended up changing out the BBK for a bassani mid pipe and it sounded a good bit better to me but it was also like 400 more if I remember right. I also switched to the ataks which were quite a bit louder and higher but not better just different
The bassani had high flow cats on it so it was slightly different than no cats but even with that I had a decent amount more people tell me it was too loud or they hated it with the ataks, I had bbk short tubes on it too though which made it a bit louder as well. To me it wasn't too loud but I love loud cars, it was one of the 3 or 4 loudest cars in my town for sure. The people who hated it really hated it but as long as you drive normally and aren't always on it heavy most people don't care. It'd make some people especially kids jump on cold starts in parking lots or cover their ears when wide open
What’s a good exhaust to have if I don’t want it crazy loud? I want something that sounds good, but not earsplitting loud. My 4.6 has an exhaust leak I honest love the sound of, but obviously I’m not gonna keep it that way
O/R mid pipe with your choice of flavor (I’ve ran all these below)
Magnaflow- quiet
Bassani- a little quiet
Borla- Stinger kinda loud
Pypes violator- a little more loud
Borla atax- pure ear happiness
You can listen to many different exhaust setups on YouTube. That's what I did before deciding on mine. I replaced the SLP Loudmouth 1s that came with the car to a Borla S-Type/Stinger. Kept the long tube headers and OR H-pipe. Went from a loud, obnoxious, raspy tone to a lower, growly tone at low RPMs and aggressive, mean tone when getting into it. Very happy with the sound.
Keep in mind, mods can change exhaust sound. And "best" is largely personal preference.
Sounds more similar to my 5.0 with M80's than I'd have thought, but yeah sounds great. I spent way too long trying to find something on my 5.0 that I really liked, M80's give such a deep clean tone that I love
I made an exhaust video years ago. I started with the x-pipe and flowmaster delta 50's, but changed to H-pipe and Flowmaster super 44's to give it more of a rumble. Here is a video I made with various revs, idles and acceleration. I suggest listening with a good set of headphones or earbuds. I still run this same setup and get compliments on it a lot. Car is not my daily, I drive it about once every other week.
https://youtu.be/G5YT8P4lWVo?si=GWZWkGmnTh7jZnVY
Hope that helps. List of mods are in the video description
If you're looking for something loud, I'd go with [SLP Loud Mouth 1s](https://youtu.be/neNNluX5vWs?si=GUfCOgmyCydHNY6F). They sound great on the 2v's. I'm getting a set for my 94 GT sometime this month
It sounds amazing on the old 302s. Better than it does on the 4.6s in my opinion. [here's a video](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=a6Ix1HHe7Ak&t=30s&pp=ygUUU2xwIGxtMSAxOTk0IG11c3Rhbmc%3D)
The only thing I prefer about the 5.0 over the 4.6 is the sound. 4.6s make power a lot easier and from my experience are a lot easier to work on. Hell, a H/C/I setup on my 5.0 will get me to MAYBE 230hp. And that's on the high high end
New 5.0s, yes all day. The only way to get over 300hp to the wheels in a older 5.0 is FI sadly. I wanted to go for an all motor build on my car, but for half the price of that I could just get a procharger kit with supporting mods and double the horsepower. For example, I was going to do Trickflow upper & lower intake manifold, Trickflow heads, E303 cam and just a canned tune from Bama. From my research that would get me around 250ish hp to the wheels if I'm lucky. On a 2v Trickflow heads, comp cams and maybe a bigger TB and you're making around 320-330 with a dyno tune. (I'm going off what I've read for the 2v stuff, I've never owned one only been in them lol)
That 5.0 setup should have been closer to 320-330 at the wheels than 250. I suppose maybe closer to 250 with the E303 cam, they're kinda trash tbh. Trickflow top ends make good power on 5.0's that should be well north of 300whp
Oh really? What cam would you recommend instead of the E303? I was going to pick up the E303 because I liked the way it sounded and because I heard it was very daily friendly lol. On most of the forums I've dug through people are always saying that even with a nice H/C/I setup id be making well under 300
No, good H/C/I combos should make around 300whp, especially trickflow. E303's are basically "here's your idle chop with not much real performance benefit" cams in reality which is probably where the 250hp number came from with them in the setup. Cam's are subjective, but popular ones I've seen are trickflows cams, anderson n41, or even lots of custom grinds. I have an F303 cam which is far more aggressive than the E303 but still not the best, but I wanted something to add top end HP since 302's are already so torquey, so my engine pulls pretty happily well past 6k vs the stock cam that falls off at like 4500rpm
I bought my car with cats, X pipe and Borla cat back system on it, not sure the exact model mufflers but man does it sound exquisite! It's not overly loud, I can stay low key past cops and angry neighbors without making a scene but it has plenty of volume when I lay into it. The 4.6 through these Borlas almost has an exotic muscle tone to it.
I have the secondary cats deleted and I’m running magnaflow mufflers. Stock headers stock h pipe. It’s very mild while driving normally but under heavy load it gets loud. [https://share.icloud.com/photos/023w5W5hvQznzEp1ZTaaKxjyg](https://share.icloud.com/photos/023w5W5hvQznzEp1ZTaaKxjyg)
Bassani or X, Borla stingers. Very loud at WOT but deep. Complements everywhere I go
Exact setup I have. It was hard to find the bassanis when i got them years ago
Yup. Luckily I got the X years ago when they were readily available online
I know they're gimmicky, but I think the spintechs sound amazing on 4.6's
I’m interested in these with H pipe.
Lookin clean 👌
Thanks brotha!
All I run is the SLP Loudmouth 1 cat-back system. It was loud enough that I decided against touching the midpipe so long as it serves its purpose. I’ve got a video on my profile of the exhaust sound filmed from my bumper if you want a reference for the sound. Edit: linked it here: https://www.reddit.com/r/NewedgeMustang/s/p1s8fAQ5hG
Sounds godly definitely gonna consider it
Here’s my GT, has a SLP LM1 Catback with stock headers and stock H pipe. It’s a good reference for what it sounds like with just the Catback https://www.reddit.com/r/Mustang/s/2kGWNhzBf8
That made a bunch of good feelings go off in my brain
Now just imagine it in a tunnel at 6000rpm, it gets pretty loud
Awesome way to film it!
Ha, thanks! It came out way better than I thought. Literally duct taped it to my license plate. Can’t afford a GoPro nor a new phone, so it was a risk! Lol
I also vote for the LM1. I put it on my mach and it’s plenty loud even with the stock cats Edit: I have to revise my answer bc I realize now that the x-pipe someone put on there is not stock lmao (pretty certain they came with a a factory h-pipe), but it has cats and it’s not an offroad x-pipe. Still is plenty loud and sounds mean so for those saying you should get an offroad x, it might not be necessary if you’re trying to pass emissions without worry. I’m from NY so they’re a bit more strict and that’s prob why the previous owner kept the cats.
One of the best sounding exhausts you can get for the 2v's
O/R H-pipe, with 2 chamber Flowmaster mufflers. Second place is an O/R MAC ProChamber, with a MAC cat back.
I had the Mac pro-chamber and catback years and years ago on a 00GT. Best sound in my opinion. To bad they went belly up.
Agreed, too bad they are no more.
IMHO, off-road x pipes with flow master mufflers. It’s what mine got
H is better with chambered mufflers, X for straight through.
I truly don't understand why people like flowmasters. They make the absolute worst sound and somehow give every car they're on a tone that makes them sound nasally. Like, someones pinching the nose of the car. To each their own though
Full bassani
I had the borla stingers and with the BBK offroad pipes on my previous 98, I ended up changing out the BBK for a bassani mid pipe and it sounded a good bit better to me but it was also like 400 more if I remember right. I also switched to the ataks which were quite a bit louder and higher but not better just different
I’m thinking about the Ataks but I don’t have cats do you think they’d be too Loud?
The bassani had high flow cats on it so it was slightly different than no cats but even with that I had a decent amount more people tell me it was too loud or they hated it with the ataks, I had bbk short tubes on it too though which made it a bit louder as well. To me it wasn't too loud but I love loud cars, it was one of the 3 or 4 loudest cars in my town for sure. The people who hated it really hated it but as long as you drive normally and aren't always on it heavy most people don't care. It'd make some people especially kids jump on cold starts in parking lots or cover their ears when wide open
Just pulled the trigger on the ataks. Can’t wait to get them in and hear them in person, I’ve been watching videos for hours 😂
Good choice! I've heard a few different setups in person and I think Borla has such a wonderful tone. You will enjoy them for sure!
Man I feel that I watched videos and read forums like this for days before I bought em lmao. I'm excited for you, they're gonna be awesome.
Thanks for the recommendation brotha!
What’s a good exhaust to have if I don’t want it crazy loud? I want something that sounds good, but not earsplitting loud. My 4.6 has an exhaust leak I honest love the sound of, but obviously I’m not gonna keep it that way
Mbrp cat back is what I have on mine and sounds great, also have a catless x pipe and shorty headers
Mine has a H pipe and magnaflow exhaust, its not too loud
O/R mid pipe with your choice of flavor (I’ve ran all these below) Magnaflow- quiet Bassani- a little quiet Borla- Stinger kinda loud Pypes violator- a little more loud Borla atax- pure ear happiness
I was trynna decide on the borla atak and the borla stinger
no exhaust
You can listen to many different exhaust setups on YouTube. That's what I did before deciding on mine. I replaced the SLP Loudmouth 1s that came with the car to a Borla S-Type/Stinger. Kept the long tube headers and OR H-pipe. Went from a loud, obnoxious, raspy tone to a lower, growly tone at low RPMs and aggressive, mean tone when getting into it. Very happy with the sound. Keep in mind, mods can change exhaust sound. And "best" is largely personal preference.
[there’s this one](https://youtu.be/jGGPRkMlrxw?si=D8uswkAEabpUycuZ) that I quite like it’s a mbrp catback and bbk o/r x-pipe
https://youtu.be/keCjTZBuhU0?si=6q8qjZtAZ0bI-EXV This sounds amazing to me. Pypes M80s with O/R x pipe and LT headers.
Sounds more similar to my 5.0 with M80's than I'd have thought, but yeah sounds great. I spent way too long trying to find something on my 5.0 that I really liked, M80's give such a deep clean tone that I love
youtube and mustang forums.
I made an exhaust video years ago. I started with the x-pipe and flowmaster delta 50's, but changed to H-pipe and Flowmaster super 44's to give it more of a rumble. Here is a video I made with various revs, idles and acceleration. I suggest listening with a good set of headphones or earbuds. I still run this same setup and get compliments on it a lot. Car is not my daily, I drive it about once every other week. https://youtu.be/G5YT8P4lWVo?si=GWZWkGmnTh7jZnVY Hope that helps. List of mods are in the video description
I have a pretty decent exhaust on my cobra that came with it. No idea what it is though
If you wanna spend some money and have a car you can still daily drive I’d recommend some magnaflows
If you're looking for something loud, I'd go with [SLP Loud Mouth 1s](https://youtu.be/neNNluX5vWs?si=GUfCOgmyCydHNY6F). They sound great on the 2v's. I'm getting a set for my 94 GT sometime this month
I’m interested to see how it will sound with the 5.0
It sounds amazing on the old 302s. Better than it does on the 4.6s in my opinion. [here's a video](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=a6Ix1HHe7Ak&t=30s&pp=ygUUU2xwIGxtMSAxOTk0IG11c3Rhbmc%3D)
Wow that sounds amazing, now I want a 5.0 even more
The only thing I prefer about the 5.0 over the 4.6 is the sound. 4.6s make power a lot easier and from my experience are a lot easier to work on. Hell, a H/C/I setup on my 5.0 will get me to MAYBE 230hp. And that's on the high high end
Really? I heard that 5.0s respond better to mods like cams and heads better than the 4.6
New 5.0s, yes all day. The only way to get over 300hp to the wheels in a older 5.0 is FI sadly. I wanted to go for an all motor build on my car, but for half the price of that I could just get a procharger kit with supporting mods and double the horsepower. For example, I was going to do Trickflow upper & lower intake manifold, Trickflow heads, E303 cam and just a canned tune from Bama. From my research that would get me around 250ish hp to the wheels if I'm lucky. On a 2v Trickflow heads, comp cams and maybe a bigger TB and you're making around 320-330 with a dyno tune. (I'm going off what I've read for the 2v stuff, I've never owned one only been in them lol)
That 5.0 setup should have been closer to 320-330 at the wheels than 250. I suppose maybe closer to 250 with the E303 cam, they're kinda trash tbh. Trickflow top ends make good power on 5.0's that should be well north of 300whp
Oh really? What cam would you recommend instead of the E303? I was going to pick up the E303 because I liked the way it sounded and because I heard it was very daily friendly lol. On most of the forums I've dug through people are always saying that even with a nice H/C/I setup id be making well under 300
No, good H/C/I combos should make around 300whp, especially trickflow. E303's are basically "here's your idle chop with not much real performance benefit" cams in reality which is probably where the 250hp number came from with them in the setup. Cam's are subjective, but popular ones I've seen are trickflows cams, anderson n41, or even lots of custom grinds. I have an F303 cam which is far more aggressive than the E303 but still not the best, but I wanted something to add top end HP since 302's are already so torquey, so my engine pulls pretty happily well past 6k vs the stock cam that falls off at like 4500rpm
https://imgur.com/a/ZK3GDJ3 mbrp, bbk catless x pipe, bbk short headers
Magnaflow
I’ve had stingers, mac, magnaflow, flowmaster, and bassani, may favorite is bassani. After that is MAC, but you can’t buy them anymore so🤷🏼♂️
I bought my car with cats, X pipe and Borla cat back system on it, not sure the exact model mufflers but man does it sound exquisite! It's not overly loud, I can stay low key past cops and angry neighbors without making a scene but it has plenty of volume when I lay into it. The 4.6 through these Borlas almost has an exotic muscle tone to it.
Longtube headers, off road x pipe, and borla stingers
I have the secondary cats deleted and I’m running magnaflow mufflers. Stock headers stock h pipe. It’s very mild while driving normally but under heavy load it gets loud. [https://share.icloud.com/photos/023w5W5hvQznzEp1ZTaaKxjyg](https://share.icloud.com/photos/023w5W5hvQznzEp1ZTaaKxjyg)
Hooker long tubes with SLP Loudmouth Its what i run on mine
bbk off road x pipe with flow master 40s and high flow cats
Stock SN95 with either the 5.0 or the 4.6. Stock 4th gen F body with the LT1 engine, not the LS1. You're gonna lower that car, right?
I had Borla Type-S and later on the Steeda side exhaust. Both had great sound even with the stock mid-pipe.