Cascade Crew

DBL_TKE · Posted: Wed Sep 14, 2011 7:40 am Post subject:

The '85 is not drivable. No engine, transmission, springs or shocks/struts.

RSFreak · Posted: Wed Sep 14, 2011 9:38 pm Post subject:

Are you parting it out?

Kage87Z · Posted: Thu Sep 15, 2011 10:07 pm Post subject:

That car is insane... When I saw it at the track, there was a slobber problem.

Mine.

Stare Factor: 10.

DBL_TKE · Posted: Fri Sep 16, 2011 4:20 pm Post subject:

DBL_TKE · Posted: Sun Sep 18, 2011 9:46 pm Post subject:

So I picked up a pair of 10" Kicker Comp VR's (2ohm, dual voice coils). I'll be wiring them up soon. Very Happy

DBL_TKE · Posted: Mon Sep 19, 2011 6:25 am Post subject:

I also have a few other goodies that are patiently waiting for me.

Stay tuned... Smile

DBL_TKE · Posted: Wed Sep 21, 2011 11:30 am Post subject: SLP Loudmouth 2

I purchased this exhaust over a year ago and finally got around to installing it on my car. It is a 3" stainless steel cat back exhaust system designed for a 4th gen F-body. It uses a bullet style muffler positioned before the rear axle, then splits off into two tail pipes after the over-axle bend.

I forgot to take more pictures but in order to install this on a 3rd gen you have to swap the hangers from left to right. The intermediate pipe going to the muffler is too short to reach the y-pipe so when I cut off my old exhaust I left about 8-10" on it past the y-pipe connection. Now this is on a factory dual cat car so that means those with a single cat would also need the 45* bend to reach the cat.

I measured all the pipes to see what it's true diameter is:

2.75" ID at the pipe that connects to the Y-pipe
3" muffler
3" over the axle
2.75" tail pipes
3.5" tips

I have a few things to note. I'm not that impressed with the quality of the stainless steel. Seems to be a pretty low grade especially compares to the muffler, or even to that of Magnaflow. There is a mix of band clamps and regular exhaust clamps. I don't like how poorly D-shaped exhaust clamps seal. IMO they should all be band clamps.

Overall I'm very satisfied though. I was surprised at the sound. Everyone kept telling me how raspy and loud these exhausts are but in fact it isn't. It has a very deep bassy tone at idle, and really wakes up with a deep aggressive tone at WOT. keep in mind that I'm still running the factory manifolds, Y-pipe and cats. It's very quiet inside the cabin driving around town with the windows up. I'll post a sound clip soon.

DBL_TKE · Posted: Wed Sep 21, 2011 11:36 am Post subject:

http://i48.photobucket.com/albums/f216/Sk8erBoiX11/91%20Camaro%20Z28/19f63ee8.mp4

aaron_sK · Posted: Wed Sep 21, 2011 1:02 pm Post subject:

Horseshoe clamps should be called horse-something else clamps. Wink

I'd consider buying band clamps for the whole thing if you don't want to have it all welded.

Sounds very nice. It will get more raspy when you install headers and gut the cats, but it will lose some of that low drone.

DBL_TKE · Posted: Wed Sep 21, 2011 2:26 pm Post subject:

I hate rasp, I'll be keeping cats as required for the STU and ESP classes for autocross. And this exhaust doesn't drone at all. If it did I wouldn't mind, it doesn't bother me. But I'm definitely going to get some more band clamps. 3 x 2.75" and 1 x 3".

In fact I may entertain the idea of deleting the muffler altogether. I thought this exhaust would be louder.

TurdGen1989 · Posted: Thu Sep 22, 2011 12:17 pm Post subject:

jelly

DBL_TKE · Posted: Sat Oct 01, 2011 11:03 am Post subject:

Hmm on my way home last night I noticed a "noise" that turned my stomach. I'll be diagnosing it tomorrow. Good thing I never got rid of my old 305...

aaron_sK · Posted: Sat Oct 01, 2011 12:01 pm Post subject:

That was just God telling you to buy a better engine than a POS TPI 305. Wink

DBL_TKE · Posted: Sat Oct 01, 2011 2:32 pm Post subject:

DBL_TKE · Posted: Sat Oct 01, 2011 5:14 pm Post subject:

We rained out at the drag strip so I put my car on the lift at the shop. Again there was no noise on cold start up. You could start to hear a rattle that continued to increase with time and heat. I eliminated the sound from the engine at all, also eliminated it from the transmission. It turned out to be one of my catalytic converters actually. Used a long screw driver as a stethoscope to pinpoint it. The thought had crossed my mind that it might be exhaust related but I dismissed that idea simply because things never turn out that easy for my cars Laughing

This is a blessing in disguise, my next mod will probably be headers, y-pipe and cats. On that note I gotta get cracking and pick some out. I still have my Edebrock TES shorties but those are complete junk. However I've been toying with the idea of cutting off the collectors, welding some real collectors on and replacing the crappy y-pipe merge with a better design. Can anyone point me in the right direction to some decent header collectors?

Otherwise I'm considering some Hooker 2055's or Dyno Dons. But I'd rather see if I can work with what I got.

Schultzy89GTA · Posted: Sat Oct 01, 2011 5:30 pm Post subject:

whew! glad to hear that it wasn't more serious.

Cool

-Schultzy

chevymad · Posted: Sat Oct 01, 2011 5:48 pm Post subject:

So just how do they test to make sure you have a 305 and not a 350 in the car? If you cant see the casting #s it gets pretty difficult to tell.

DBL_TKE · Posted: Sat Oct 01, 2011 6:34 pm Post subject:

aaron_sK · Posted: Sat Oct 01, 2011 6:58 pm Post subject:

I can understand wanting to stay in class. If your shopping headers I'm guessing it's Street Touring?

Schultzy89GTA · Posted: Sat Oct 01, 2011 7:51 pm Post subject: