Chopped Mufflers/Illegal..?

solaris=amazing · #1 01-01-2005, 01:50 AM

I cannot find the answer to this, no joke.

If i chop off my mufflers, will i NOT be able to get my car inspected..? I'm gonna leave all cats on, just take off the mufflers and replace them with 2ft chrome pipe.

This including removing my air silencer, and running tube down to my passenger fender wall with a k&n conical filter, with a fabricated air duct (ram air).

Hopefully this will give my baby some more pep and sound.

95 ford tbird 4.6 V8..

Schister66 · #2 01-01-2005, 02:20 AM

You could just get high flow mufflers or something along the lines of a glasspack or cherrybomb. I wouldn't chop them off though, because your car will sound like a sprint car...its cool for a while, but gets very old very fast.

solaris=amazing · #3 01-01-2005, 02:21 AM

Gotcha, thanks. Yeah maybe i'll get good mufflers. After all, last year i got 4 tickets in a row for an expired inspection tag on the car before this one, that sucked.

I thought an inspection shop wouldn't have an issue with the mufflers not being there though. After all there are newer cars with loud exhausts/straightpipes (mustang/merc merauder etc) that get inspected all the time. BTW, chopped mufflers on a v8 tbird sounds about 50% of what an average STOCK 04 gt stang sounds like, not even that loud.

If it cannot be inspected, WHY, what would the reason be.. because it's alittle loud..? Thats retarded.

Schister66 · #4 01-01-2005, 03:30 AM

What the hell is an inspection?? What state/province/country is that in?? I live in ND and basically anything goes. There are no inspections. You could have all non street legal parts on you car and straight piped exhaust like my car, and nobody cares. It is one good side of living here.

YogsVR4 · #5 01-01-2005, 09:51 AM

MOre then half the states have inspections. We don't in Michigan - which is just fine by me. The state takes enough of our money to waste. Inspecting vehicles to get the .1% who wouldn't pass emissions is not worth the added costs.

CamaroSSBoy346 · #6 01-01-2005, 10:17 AM

Its legal. I have it done on mine. It looks better, and sounds alot better, Not like a tractor, it doesnt quite have that V8 Gurgle like a Mustang or Camaro, but it definatly sounds like an American V8. But then again, I bought my car without any mufflers to begin with. I plan on replacing it with a complete Dynomax cat-back anyways.

WickedNYCowboy · #7 01-01-2005, 03:00 PM

It depends on where you live and the cops. Here I get my nuts busted for stock subs. I have the trunk padded so it hits better. A couple people have diesels and they get their balls busted for being loud.

SiGNAL748 · #8 01-01-2005, 03:12 PM

Having no mufflers is completely legal, provided you comply with your area's db rating laws (and emissions, for those who have to be tested for it, keep your cats on.)

The SRT-4 has no mufflers, from the factory. 100% Street Legal.

solaris=amazing · #9 01-01-2005, 03:28 PM

Hey thanks guys, i'm gonna cut them off and make it look real nice with the chromes i got. I know it really isn't to loud because i heard the same exact car months ago at a gas station. The dude had a 95 4.6 V8 just like me, and he kept all the cats because he said it makes backpressure better (true, i did my research).

Lol, but what i'm also gonna do, is keep my mufflers somewhere, so just incase a shop gives me guff, i can just clamp them back on :-)

BleedDodge · #10 01-01-2005, 03:33 PM

Just put glasspacks on it. They hardly take away from that straightpipe sound and at least they're there if someone tries to give you trouble...

WickedNYCowboy · #11 01-01-2005, 05:05 PM

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Originally Posted by BleedDodge

Just put glasspacks on it. They hardly take away from that straightpipe sound and at least they're there if someone tries to give you trouble...

That's the best way to go. Also get some high flow cats.

thrasher · #12 01-01-2005, 06:55 PM

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Originally Posted by BleedDodge

Just put glasspacks on it. They hardly take away from that straightpipe sound and at least they're there if someone tries to give you trouble...

IIRC, glasspacks aren't muffler, they're resonator pipes. Someone correct me if I'm wrong.

SiGNAL748 · #13 01-01-2005, 07:35 PM

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Originally Posted by thrasher

IIRC, glasspacks aren't muffler, they're resonator pipes. Someone correct me if I'm wrong.

By definition, a muffler is "a tubular acoustic device inserted in the exhaust system that is designed to reduce noise.", and a glasspack would fit that description.

But since we're all gearheads, and automotively speaking; Yes, you're correct, glasspacks aren't mufflers per se.

Limited5.9Cherokee · #14 01-03-2005, 03:57 PM

I dont know about ND, but in OK by the book anything louder then stock, or any unproffesionally altered exhaust is illegal. meaning anything but stock. But it is also known as a blue law which means its not enforced its just a little extra leverage in case a cop needs it. like if he pulled you over and you was a huge asshole and he couldnt write you for anything else, he would use it. But we dont have inspections here anymore so that will be te main thing to worry about.

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