Effin Ponderous

Oh man, you are so missing the boat. My cut gasket sounds so much better (IMO) than the washers and I've tried stg 1, 1.5 and 2. It's quieter and sounds almost exactly like my buddy's Borla. I'm just diggin the cleaner sound.

Now I can rest in peace...thanks

Don't think so..no one's ever seen my effin car!

Won't you end up with corrosion due to dissimilar metals with aluminum? Maybe stainless is the key?

Update - A week later and no signs of blowing out the gaskets. The steel ring is keeping them solid. This mod sounds very similar to clips I've heard of the Borla exhaust. Keep in mind, I tried the washer route twice and pulled it twice because of the increase in noise level after a day or two. No exhaust stink and no carbon build up on the body pan. It may be a little quiet for some at idle, but I think it has just the right added rasp to tell you there is something going on down there. Under wot, it sounds like a porsche. Oh, and the wife hasn't said a word. Driving at low throttle, there is little difference in sound.

The stainless plate could be a good idea. You could vary the thickness to produce your desired sound.

^^That's why I cut it the way I did. Opened it up the full width of the inside diameter. Hopefully they won't, but I can always replace them if they do.

The Hog evolves... Didn't see where anyone actually performed the mod this way, but I love the sound now. Rather than removing the gasket all together, I may a surgical incision (more like cut it with a pair of Wiss snips) in the factory gaskets as shouwn below. Cut a straight line at the widest part of the inside of the gasket. This method will help to keep the exhaust flowing directly to the rear and eliminate any possibility of blowing out more of the gasket. The sound is better than the original washer mod (IMO). It sounds more like a performance exhaust thatn a hole in the muffler.

Spotted Nachowang picking up my wheels!

Saw a black debadged and lowered LGT on 87/287 near the crapandpee bridge around 4:00 today

I'm running on Tein H-Techs now, but the drop was more than 1"...more like 2" all around. In any case, these are Roh Adrenalines 18" x 7" with 48 offset and 225/40 ZR18 Toyo Proxes. No rubbing

Are they 17's or 18's?

route 1 where and when

looked like a stock abp lgt getting on the NJTPK at exit 11 at about 6:40 this morning. You took car and truck...I took car only. ARE YOU HERE!?!?!

^^It won't stay that way

we'll try it again...grp gt on 9 south near the rte 35 split.

^^+10! Sounded great at first, but then not so great

they do?

saw a silver LGT with spec B wheels on 440, just short of the VNB this morning at around 7:00. Unless of course the spec B's have GT badges.... Big Edit...saw a silver spec B...

ok, this mother effer has gotten signifcantly louder in thelast week but I can't figure out why? Has anyone simply tried cutting the gasket at the bottom. In other words, cut between the bolt reinforcements of the gasket at the bottom only?

I'm very with ya on the ears thing. I meant more like my 5EAT has nothing before turbo...when you rev it, there is this "running too rich" sound like it is clearing out from running too rich once it gets to higher rpm. It really feels better now, but it may be the cooler weather that has affected it

Got sound clips but can't figure out how to post them. Today it sounded even better...not sure why? It even seemed to have more low end power before the turbo kicks in...is this possible?

Got some strange looks at first, not like WTF, but is there something different? After 20 minutes on the ride home, I got the...OK, what did you do?. I'm gonna keep it for a while...it's starting to sound louder though.

took another shot at it...went stage I.V last time but went Stage .V this time. Seems to sound pretty good overall and by putting the washer in the bottom hole it seems to direct exhaust down from the body. The real test is to not say anything to the bride and see if she notices...film at 11.

OK, Hogs...I've done the Hogzaust, then reversed it. IMO, it doesn't work as well with the 5EAT because there is no reving to get that sweet sound while standing still (unless you pop it in to neutral). The other problem I had with it was that on initial take off, there wasn't the cool rumbling sound, but more like the car is running on 3 cylinders. Ya gotta give me something different for te autos...they really don't sound good with Hogzaust under 1300 rpms. No true designer will leave a project half done... (A new twist and possible thread extension of at least another 100 posts)