muffler delete
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V10SpeedLuvr
Enthusiast
Im running a muffler delete on my RT/10. I absolutely positively love it! Muffler shop cut off the stock muffler and welded the tips from the muffler onto the straight pipes to retain the stock look. The car sounds louder, meaner, idles louder and pops like crazy deacceleration. total cost: $100
MacManInfi
Enthusiast
I'm running the Stainless Random Technology muffler delete. Has 4" tips and a crossover pipe. Looks awesome and sounds great! $495 at Parts Rack. A+
AMong
Enthusiast
What about deleting the mufflers and the cats ?
Chuck 98 RT/10
Enthusiast
Muffler delete on my RT/10. Nice sound, just a little bit louder. Muffler shop did it for $150. I should have had it done the day after I bought the car seven years and 100,000+ miles ago.
Lotsa threads about this topic. Do a search.
Lotsa threads about this topic. Do a search.
Purdue_Boiler_Viper
Enthusiast
Big improvement over stock. If you buy it from Partsrack, you can upgrade to catback in the future.
Yes, you get a little de-cell popping. But, not enought for me.
Yes, you get a little de-cell popping. But, not enought for me.
Steve 00RT/10
Enthusiast
Rear muffler delete is definitely the first thing to do. Huge inprovement over stock I think. I guess living in a rural area has it's advantages, I got it done in 2001 for $30 at my muffler shop, including welding the stock tips back on. Even today, It still wouldn't be over $40-50 dollars. I see no reason for anyone to spend big dollars for this mod to achieve the same thing any good muffler can do in a half hour or so.
Steve
Steve
Big improvement over stock. If you buy it from Partsrack, you can upgrade to catback in the future.
Yes, you get a little de-cell popping. But, not enought for me.
I'm not a big fan of the popping, to the avg. joe, it sounds like something is wrong with the car, like it is back-firing or something.
Steve 00RT/10
Enthusiast
Popping is unburnt fuel coming out the exhaust. VEC1 in 2002 completely took care of that problem. Added 14HP and 20 pounds of torque in the process.
Steve
Steve
ronniej
Viper Owner
Mine came with muffler delete and stock cats. Honestly, it sounded like my neighbor's boat (big block) in the water while idling. I since then purchased the complete Roe 3" stainless high flow cats and muffler. Still just as loud, but sounds more like a car than a boat now. 
BTW, I have a GEN 1.
BTW, I have a GEN 1.MacManInfi
Enthusiast
Very slightly. 90% of the time I don't hear it, but every now and then I do, but it isn't loud. Most people wouldn't even notice.
Brian 95 RT
Enthusiast
I had the mufflers and cats removed in my '95, and installed chambered mufflers. These were actually prototypes tuned specifically for the Viper, but were never used by Dodge. The manufacturer was able to get them back from Dodge for me. My car sounds like a 60's Big Block V-8 on steroids! Here is their website, they are supposed to be featuring my car on it some time: http://www.classicchambered.com/index.html
MacManInfi
Enthusiast
You need to record some sounds for us.
Steve 00RT/10
Enthusiast
OK---here's a little sound clip.
Exhaust Clip
..all right........maybe I went a little further than just the muffler delete
...but that's what I started with.
Steve
Exhaust Clip
..all right........maybe I went a little further than just the muffler delete
...but that's what I started with.
Steve
AMong
Enthusiast
Would a muffler AND cat delete be too loud ?
MacManInfi
Enthusiast
Remember that there are silencers behind the cats as well (something I didn't realize at first). I hear the real loudness doesn't come until the silencers are removed.
AMong
Enthusiast
ok, Im oging to start cutting tommorow, with that being said, should I start with cutting the cats and silencers out first, and if thats not loud enough go ahead and cut the muffs ? or should I just cut the muffs and see how that sounds ?
Purdue_Boiler_Viper
Enthusiast
If you cut out the cats, you will get flames out of the exhaust. Source: Chuck Tator.
I'm upgrading to what MacManInfi did, from a simple muffler delete. You still have cats, but they are high flow. Partsrack has the sound clip.
I'm upgrading to what MacManInfi did, from a simple muffler delete. You still have cats, but they are high flow. Partsrack has the sound clip.
MacManInfi
Enthusiast
Cats would be the last thing to come off of my car, if for nothing else but to save myself and everyone else the rotten smell.
Deleting the muffler is gonna make it a bit louder. Deleting the silencers is gonna make it a lot louder.And BTW, the Random Technology silencers are directional, with little air louvers cut into the pipe that goes through the silencer. A tech at Random Technology told me that the scoops are designed to point upstream, but that you can turn the silenders around so the scoops point downstream. The silencers will flow better, but the exhaust note will be a lot louder.
So kind of cool. After driving my car for a few weeks (and still loving the sound), I think I might flip the silencers around and turn up the volume some more!
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