New exhaust coming...

[JScullin]

In about 2 weeks I'll be ordering a nice stainless steel exhaust w/a stainless Y-pipe. I've personally heard this on a Cougar & it sounds very nice- like a stock V8 GT 'Stang nice

The dynos on these are very appealing: about 8hp w/the exhaust & a little less for the Ypipe (I'm sure together they'll give more). That'll give my little ATX a nice well needed kick.

So yes, this does mean I'm keeping my car. And funny thing is the day after I took it off the market I got a call from someone willing to pay $11k oh well, this is more fun...


Oh yea, here's the site for it. -
www.yodudeperformance.com/home.asp?producttype=exhaust&productfor=cougar&pagetype=productIndex

I'm still debating on whether I should get the stainless Y-pipe. Cause in it's cheaper form there's still an avg. 10yrs on it and I'm sure something better will have come out.

[Delhux]

This is  dual exhaust with a Y-pipe?

You still want that backpressure for low-end torque?  If you did an H- or X-pipe you'd alleviate some backpressure--it'd be a loss of low-end torque but more horses in the higher RPM band.

[JScullin]

It's a dual. Cougars already have great top-end. Gunning it @ anything past 50 and you'll be at 100 in no time. The "Y-pipe" is not how the exhaust is bent, this is another part that comes off the headers & replaces the catalytic converter with a high-flow cat (Magnaflow) which then goes to the exhaust.

If I don't do a tranny swap in the future (gotta find a junked SVT Contour) I'll be considering taking my car to Level-10 in NJ. They retool your tranny to make it take well more than your car will ever put out. A few Cougars on my board have done this & have seen 1-2sec taken off their 0-60 times and that's on an ATX! So basiclly it takes your ATX tranny to the specs of a MTX (same car). Plus it lets it handle more power.

[Yakbo]

I'm not sure how effective the dual exhaust would be, considering, that it goes down to one pipe after the headers, and then splits...but admitedly I don't know anything about cougars

[JScullin]

Yea a single exhaust would be good from a performance standpoint but I hate the sound & look of them. Plus on a dyno the performance loss was so minimal compairing the two.

I have decided on the stainless dual & aluminized Y-pipe since after talking with the owner he says the pipe would have a life of 10yrs anyway. Only thing is he outta stock so I'll be ordering at the end of the week.

[JScullin]

Well, I got the exhaust put on Friday & it sounds awesome. Has a nice stock Mustang rumble to it (shakes the car, dunno if that's a good thing). The only thing I'm concerned with is that it almost gets a little raspy at WOT, especially in the interior. I had my g/f tear across a parking lot and at WOT it sounds better on the outside.

I'm hoping after I reset my ECU the car will learn it quicker & adjust. Plus the exhaust is still new & I'm sure some soot inside will change the note a bit. Overall I'm happy with it, the pipes are nice, straight & stock looking which is what I want. Next meet you's all can hear it.