Hey guys I'm contemplating a side exit exhaust for my 8, kind of like the ones on the 99 mustang Roush (pictured below). My car is lowered though. The setup I want to use is a 3" resonator after the header, after that a "y" pipe splitting the 3" piping to 2.25" to the sides, then a smaller resonator for each side and finally a silencer for both sides.

Looking into resonator and silencer diameters the smallest I could find that might work were 4" in diameter. This would give me zero ground clearance. If somebody has any input or knows of different components that might work please let me know.

 

do it.
you could send it out the stone guard at the bottom the rear fenders

 

unless you're planning on cutting into the body to recess the pipes it's going to look stupid beyond what words could describe. stick some pipe underneath the car in the area you want to do this.. stand a few feet back, then think to yourself "how bad does this look?"

I know everyone wants their car to be a unique snowflake, but there are some things that require more work then others to pull off. This is one of those things.

 

Screw the side exhaust and just run 3 straight pipes from the exhaust ports right up out the top of the hood.

 

already looked into it with my mazdaspeed sides and there is not enough clearance to cut out a hole to make it flush, which is the only way it would look good. So unless you plan on cutting into the body panels like stated above, then just stay away.

 

Yea and doing nothing because of jackasses like yourself who are just pushing there post count with inept responses would help. I AM AWARE THAT THIS WOULD REQUIRE MORE WORK "THAN" OTHERS TO PULL OFF. That's the purpose of this thread.

 

If you want your car to look terrible, just get the failside body kit and call it a day.

 

I'm going to purchase some cheapo side skirts so I can cut a hole into them and not feel so bad about it. And if I need to cut into some of the body panels that will be fine with me just worried about the subframe.

 

When are side exit exhaust eye sores?

 

Lighten up Francis. You asked for opinions and you got it.

 

when they are on a car they dont belong on

get smokestacks instead

 

I know just looking for ideas more than opinions though.

But still, there's people stuffing V8s that sure as hell don't belong in cars too.

 

That was good for a laugh, thank you!

 

Who said it don't look good?

 

I'll say it.
That's one of the ugliest 8's I've ever seen.

 

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Lol why would you lie to me and everyone else on here? ��
What does your girl look like?

 

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

Some people like women with piercings, tattoos and fake *****.
I don't.

 

Only someone who watched too many Fast & Furious movies and thought they were real would route their exhaust under the PPF/driveshaft in the process of putting it out the side, which is what the picture above indicates. How does that make any more sense than routing it out the back? This is ignoring all the other JDM boy racer stylng mods the car is out-fitted in.

Real race cars with side exhausts either pass it through a stripped interior boxed inside sheetmetal or rework the floorpan sheet metal with a tunnel for it to pass through. It doesn't get routed under the floor pan with only 2" of ground clearance.



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