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Stone Cold Goat

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I have Kooks 1 7/8" LTs, with Kooks catted 3" X-Pipe, Kooks mids, and a SOLO Axle back. I can upload a video tonight if your interested in hearing it. I know its not the exact setup your looking to hear though...
 
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Ls3xChAoS said:
Hey anyone have this setup and maybe have a sound clip so i can get an idea of what it will sound like. Ok so my setup is about to be Kooks LT 1 7/8 to a catless connection pipe from solo to a solo mach shorty cat back/QUOTE]

This setup will scream. I have Kooks headers going to Solo HFC and mach balanced . I am told it is literally ear piercing at WOT next to someone.
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Good god. If Kooks, HFC and Mach Balanced are ear piercing, I can't even imagine what a SOLO Mach Shorty Unbalanced setup would sound like with Kooks. I'm getting ready to install Kooks mid's with built-in HFC's here soon on my SOLO Mach Balanced setup. I'm hoping for an increase but don't want it to sound like a drag car. OP, you're setup is gonna make some noise for sure LOL!!
 
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I have Kooks 1 7/8" coated headers with Solo Hi-Flo Cats & connector pipes to a Solo Mach Cat-Back system. Unfortunately, I don't have any sound clips, but I'll give an update. The car is very civilized below 3,000 rpm. You can easily drive along at highway speed with reasonable noise and no resonance. It starts to get louder over 3,000 rpm, and it screams at wide open throttle. I have no regrets and love this setup. IMHO I wouldn't dream of running a catless system if you want to drive it on the street without being pretty obnoxious. Just my .02! Good Luck!
 
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Maybe a tad bit relational, but I have Kooks Mids - HFCs - 2.5" XPipe - Solo ABs. No mufflers anywhere on the car. Very mean, very aggressive, but at the same time tolerable while under light load and throttle on the highway or cruising around town.

At crusining/highway I would rate the sound at a 7 and 10 at WOT. By no means is my car ever Ear Piercing. In fact sometimes when I WOT from a dig I am getting a perfect 50/50 ratio of sound from the RotoFab and the Exhaust. The RotoFab is a really throaty CAI.

Here is a recent video 1st and an older video 2nd...Only difference on the older video is that my tips were 3 inchers not 3.5.


 
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Not sure if any of those videos are my car, but, i have 1 7/8" kooks lt's, solo catless connection pipe and mach unbalanced, with solo j pipes...sounds excellent IMO but all my friends say reallly loud at WOT if there behind or next to me..i love going under viaducts and through tunnels and just pushing it WOT...at tht point i would agree, it hurts my ears a little :) but all in all, i love the way it sounds, bc i love my cars loud..i deal with SST/Sportsman Modified/Super Modified racecars every weekend, which are nothing but open headers (some acctually run Kooks LT's) so i may have some ear damage from that lol
 
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rmcdonell318 said:
Not sure if any of those videos are my car, but, i have 1 7/8" kooks lt's, solo catless connection pipe and mach unbalanced, with solo j pipes...sounds excellent IMO but all my friends say reallly loud at WOT if there behind or next to me..i love going under viaducts and through tunnels and just pushing it WOT...at tht point i would agree, it hurts my ears a little :) but all in all, i love the way it sounds, bc i love my cars loud..i deal with SST/Sportsman Modified/Super Modified racecars every weekend, which are nothing but open headers (some acctually run Kooks LT's) so i may have some ear damage from that lol
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Haha yea i love doing that same. Wait thats the set up im going to have can you post a clip of it?


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It will be very loud. My car has that set up except with high flow cats and the balance is perfect. Sounds excellent when cruising around, but really gets aggressive when you put your foot into it. Also no drone at all.
 
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Just slap some pypes VIOLATERS on there. Call it a day.


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Heres mine.

Kooks 1 7/8" LTs, Kooks 3" catted X-Pipe, Kooks 2.5" mids matted to SOLO Axle-Back with 3.5" tips.

 
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rmcdonell318

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Ls3xChAoS said:
Thanks man now i know what to expect and it sounds awsome!! Cant wait, i see you welded it instead of using the band clamp maybe ill do that.
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No problem, thts what these boards are for! I love the sounds personally, and it never gets old when ya just blip the throttle and the pony boys, Audi's and beamers know not to play around since at WOT it screams. The mic on my phone really doesnt do the sounds of that exhaust justice lol if you were close by id say we could meet up, but i see your from staten island, ill be in long island with the G8 next weekend visiting my girlsfriends dad. Could stop by and meet up on my way through staten island lol i just noticed you have a GXP, i wonder how much of a dif it will make in sound with the LS3 vs the L76
 
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