I posted (most of this) this on a different exhaust thread this morning, and added the "--" section:
Put a Borla Touring 3" in > dual 2.5" out on my aluminum LC9 5.3. It's just about perfect for me at 48yrs old. Plenty of bass above 3500 and just enough on cold starts. If anything I would turn it up the slightest little bit on starts.
+1 to
@swathdiver advice also.. Ask Borla if they designed it to sound like the Touring? S-Type? or somewhere in between, or just outside the range of those two? I'd be curious to know?
......during the process, I learned that Borla use the same "can" for the Ford 2.7L turbo V6 as they do for the Ford 5.0L V8 and the GM 5.3L V8.
Found this one on the market book yardsale 3.5hrs away in Knoxville. Initially blew it off when I discovered it was bought for and installed on a 2.7 F150 for approx 1500mi. He said it wasn't loud enough(I though what would be on a 2.7L?) But it was so pristine that I kept going back to it. After enough times looking at it, I wanted to know why it couldn't be made to work for 2011 GMT900? What was different about the muffler? **Because the rest is just stainless pipe, it can be made to go on a lawnmower if you wanted** After closely comparing the two diagrams below, I was curious enough to call Borla and find out. Three calls later and I offered the guy a ridiculously low number and he said yes immediately. Said he was tired of stepping over it...
--I offered him $150 + shipping, it came out to $205.xx
--Exhaust guy charged me $350 to make the 3" from my Y pipe to the muffler, make and route both 2.5" exit pipes and to attach the tips I bought and align them horizontally behind rear tire. Also had to modify/move the hangers around some since it was made to fit 2018 F150
--Spent $55 on Ebay for the two black tips- 5" opening and 7-8" long(? or very close to) kind of important because they affect the final exhaust note, and cant be too long if you want them to turn 90* out the side. Length not so much matter if going to angle them, but I do a lot of off-road driving and it's NEVER flat here; any type of swept angle exit or straight rear exit is recipe for disaster with mud, rocks, and/or steep approach/departure angles
--Some or all of my 3rd Cat may have come out before this was installed?
--total have $610 in $17-1800? exhaust system
--obvi it's up to the individual re: time vs money.....personally, I have a rare condition that can sometimes be overwhelming and debilitating, at a minimum it's very time consuming! My mind prevents my body from making any combination of movements that would cause me or allow me to pay retail prices for things. If you are at all like this, I suggest looking at some online classifieds and see if something similar to the above scenario is an option for you?
edit: It's also my way of chipping in for the environment. Most impulse buys and tens of millions of repairable/rebuildable/upgradeable/repurposeable items end up in landfills. I do what I can to not contribute to this problem
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