Originally posted by The Striped SVT:
NAY I paid $50.00 bucks to have it removed and a straight pipe in place of it. The raspy sound goes away when the exhaust warms up, usually about 10 minutes or so.



No to straight pipe and yes to a Magnaflow resonator.

And any exhaust setup with just the stock resontor is pointless, IMHO. The stock resonator flows about as good as a trying to suck a thickshake though a straw.

If you think you are getting anything but more noise from deleting the rear mufflers and leaving the resonator on there, you're dreaming my friend. Your butt dyno lies to you.

All the mufflkers on the Contour, both SVT and non-SVT are all "turbo" style baffled mufflers, with the resonator being the most restrictive.

Also to add insult to injusry Ford used one resonaotr for EVERY Contour, a 2" diameter unit. So on the SVT the exhaust necks DOWN to 2" from 2.25" to go through the resontor and then back up to 2.25" until it hits the rear y-split where it branches into to 2" pipes that feed into a turbo muffler which has a 25" tip welded onto each one.

My suggestion for the ideal "poor boy" exhaust setup is this:

Keep the stock pipes, swap out the stock resonator for a Magnaflow 4" round Magnapack that is 2.25" for the SVT and 2" for the non-SVT's (or you non-SVT's should upgrade to a used SVT exhaust or all new pipes - 2" is too small for Duratec motors.) The depending on your budget you can swap out the rear mufflers for a Magnaflow straight through muffler, one on either side and add tips. If you have a little more cash, upgrade to Maganflow Race Series Mirror Finish Mufflers on each side (stay away from the single tipped Street Series they have a non-removable restrictor welded into them).

PS stay away from ANY "Turbo" muffler they are ALL baffled and are no better than what's already on the car to start with.

For any enquiries or quotes on replacement Magnaflow mufflers, PM me.

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