vQ 5L exhaust help...

[VL-187]

pickin up my VQ statesman 5L on friday arvo... i wana get the exhaust done straight away and just lookin 4 advise on what to get? never owned an 8 before so got no idea what size, brand, etc... to go for... and how much it will ruffly cost? just wana get it soundin loud as possible lol

cheers!

[greenfoam]

You'll soon get sick of it if it's too loud, just ask the man with no sound deadner. Do you just want the exhaust or the headers too?. On a VQ it's pretty easy to make twin cats into twin mufflers then into a 3 inch. You can get a X pipe before the main mufflers if you want to get fancy

[VL-187]

ill never get sick of the sound of a 5L haha
...but yeh probly just exhaust for now, no headers. so 3" is a good size to go?
on my vt just got a 2 1/2", but its just a 6..

cheers

[kniever]

on my VQ i had a 2 1/2 inch with no rear muffler and twin 3inch dumppies and it sounded just perfect in my opinion, sounded real nice when ya just rollin by and had that real nice v8 grunt when ya put ya foot down.

as greenfoam said you really will get sick of it if its too loud.

[VL-187]

yeh true... the set up your talkin bout sounds good, how much did u get it done 4?

[kniever]

i paid $300 for mine so should be bout the same for ures, dump pipes are good cos they aim the zorst note towards the ground which helps give it that better sound

[VL-187]

yeh deffinetly want a dump pipe, always sound good and look good too..
hav u got a pic of ur set up?

[05LVQ]

I've got a 3" from the cat back, muffler in the middle and a hotdog near the end, with twin 2.5" dump pipes at the end. It has a nice rumble at low revs. Only annoying thing is that cruising on the highway sitting on around 1800-2000rpm, just that note in that range, its a bit loud and kinda hurts yours ears after a while lol.
It was $450 for the exhaust and $100 for the dump pipe from A1 Exhaust.

Tim

[kniever]

i dont have a photo of underneath and this is the best photo of the back where you can see the tips

[tysons_2001]

gettin a quote tomorrow on one for my vp, twin 2.5" into single 3", will look like this

[VL-187]

oh yeh nice... clean lookin staesman u got there odyessy!

i might go get a quote 2moro after work n see how i go..

cheers