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I have about $400 or so to spend on a stock SVT...

Thanks!

Get some lowering springs and some cheap (I hate to say this) Ricer can mufflers and get your res. removed and replaced with straight pipe. my exhaust sounds great and everyone around that has heard it loves it. I only paid $30 a piece for my mufflers last year at NOPI in atl so if you look around you can find them cheap. Also look on Ebay for used B&M's i found a few the other day cheap just my .02

Umm...no.

My 2 cents says don't get rid of the center res, just upgrade current rear mufflers to something nicer. I purchased my svt with a straight pipe instead of a center res and holy crap did I rasp. Not so much when it was hot, but every other time it did rasp... oh and it drones like crazy on the highway. Just make sure you always drive your car over 3k rpms... under 3k kills your ears.

trubendz exhaust

give your car a little roar

Don't do lowering springs unless you plan on doing shocks. Save up a little more and do springs/struts at the same time. Unless you want to just upgrade the struts only.

Personally, I'd suspsension first as you will feel/enjoy that more then simple bolt on power. Do exhaust if you want more sound.

Or you could do MAF adapter/K&N, replace resonator and get the y-pipe optimized for less then $400. Then if you still don't like the sound save up for mufflers next.

It depends. How long is that $400 gonna be the only $$ you can throw at your ride?

If you're likely to have more $$ before too long, then don't spend any of it, save it up for headers and trubends and a K&N 3530.

If that $400 has to last you a long time, then upgrade that stock resonator, it's a bad bottle neck, get a K&N, and look into modding your stock y-pipe. With $$ for gas and a heatshield left over. New lowering springs on stock struts is looking to get your stock struts shot.

Originally posted by icysvt:
Get some lowering springs and some cheap (I hate to say this) Ricer can mufflers and get your res. removed and replaced with straight pipe. my exhaust sounds great and everyone around that has heard it loves it. I only paid $30 a piece for my mufflers last year at NOPI in atl so if you look around you can find them cheap. Also look on Ebay for used B&M's i found a few the other day cheap just my .02

you deserve about a million

I ended up replacing my rear mufflers with a Magnaflow knock off...not too expensive, but not a
$30 cheapo job either....and removed resonator. Sounds pretty good, but drones at 2500-2900RPM.

That drone is a big part of the reason to replace your stock resonator with a better one instead of going with no resonator at all.

Well, the drone is from the rear mostly...just a bit louder at hwy cruising speed...nothing I can't handle.

If you want a barley used Trubendz Resonated Magnaflow Kit. My Buddy is selling his. I think it has like 1500 km's on it (like 800ish miles???)

Shoot me a PM if your intrested.

i tell everyone the same thing.. trubendz borla non rez

cheap and sounds great at idle and throughout the rpms

i was in the same boat as you.. just i already had the b&m on the car when i got it..

i got the catback and the kkm intake.. and im not complaining.. i could just use more $ for headers

id say spend 50 on removing the resonator and replacing it with some straight pipe, another 80 or so on a used B&M then buy some lowering springs for around 200 then maybe get a chip...

Don't waste your 400 on an exhaust system that will only give you sound.

replace the resonator (it's the most restrictive part) with something a little larger and higher-flowing...be cheap get a glasspack...it sounds great and you've still got 350 left over.

Originally posted by stilov:
Don't waste your 400 on an exhaust system that will only give you sound.

replace the resonator (it's the most restrictive part) with something a little larger and higher-flowing...be cheap get a glasspack...it sounds great and you've still got 350 left over.

Get a magnaflow res...sounds good and no rasp. Only $60 bucks online.

I would then get the lowering springs.