Most cost effective way to improve a 4200's sound

CatmanV2

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Tom4200 said:
Let me get this straight Cats > X-pipe > straight through pipe?
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Home made straight through rear boxes

That's what Spartacus has, and what I'm getting after having heard his.

Maverick is providing my back boxes as he *also* gutted his secondary cats (correct me if I'm wrong, Mav) which then made it *very* loud indeed with many pops and bangs on the overrun.

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Contigo said:
You don't need hangers, mine hangs free from the centre section all the way to the back.
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The rear boxes have hangers on them. If you delete the rear boxes you delete the hangers. The replacement rear pipes would need hangers would they not?
 
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Contigo said:
Oh and note that the standard pipes go from 3.25 to about 3 Inch at rears so the problem we had us that stainless has a wider diameter than the stick pipes. Routing the metalwork over the rear subframe was difficult because it ran so close to the Cv boots and handbrake cables so a decision was made to run under the subframe instead.
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I like that and the sound!!!
I would be interested in getting the same done on mine - I am not too far away in Surrey, just off M25
 
CatmanV2

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rockits said:
The rear boxes have hangers on them. If you delete the rear boxes you delete the hangers. The replacement rear pipes would need hangers would they not?
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I think I'd want hangers, but I can see with the reduction in weight they may not be absolutely necessary

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rockits said:
The rear boxes have hangers on them. If you delete the rear boxes you delete the hangers. The replacement rear pipes would need hangers would they not?
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Yes they do but the stainless straight throughs have no hangers and the decision was made to not bother as it is very rigid anyway and the weight reduction made that a lot easier.
 
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Think I'll do standard cats x pipe and straight through pipes keeping original boxes in garage
 
CatmanV2

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Tom4200 said:
Think I'll do standard cats x pipe and straight through pipes keeping original boxes in garage
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Yeah. Boxes are virtually give away as they are SS and simply never rust. I have a pair that I was going to mod, given to me by a forum member, a pair on the car and a pair I'm getting from Mav...

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Well I think I'll just get some straight through pipes made and keep the boxes in the garage in case I hate it
 
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I think it would be good to find someone we can all trust to do a good straight through job to open these cars up let's face it, why should we pay 2-3k for a Larini, I simply refuse such an absurd cost
 
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CatmanV2 said:
Standard Cats
Forum un-silenced X-pipe
Home made straight through rear boxes

That's what Spartacus has, and what I'm getting after having heard his.

Maverick is providing my back boxes as he *also* gutted his secondary cats (correct me if I'm wrong, Mav) which then made it *very* loud indeed with many pops and bangs on the overrun.

C
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Yep that's correct catman
 
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That's absolutely perfect I guess I'll have the same effect with straight through pipes rather than a cut up box
 
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The only problem you have with non modified boxes is reproducing the tips but anything is possible :)
 
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