BlackCobalt707

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Does anyone know of a company that makes straight pipes or where i can find one?

07BluBalt

ummm straight ppe as you hear the term. is simply your entire exhaust system. minus a muffler resonator and Cat...so its just piping for your exhuast. if your lucky you can find a cheap ass exhaust shop that will do it for cash and bend up sum pipe to fit. then weld it all on. Gl tho its illegal w/o a cat or muffler ;(

07SSCharged248

Watch the size of the pipes.. If your all stock that much free flow will hurt you..

JRANGER

ther eis a guy on ebay that will sell you 2.5" pipe mandrel bent for the balt for $130

D4u2s0t

any muffler/exhaust shop should be able to do straight pipes for you. but good luck being able to live with the sound, the gains won't be that big vs. a hi flow cat and hi flow muffler. the noise however will be really, really bad.

MagCobalt

does this make it faster?
would there be less back pressure?

ScLsN00b

I would never strait pipe the cobalt, only unless it had the cat,header or sumthing like a glasspack,

come on,
everybody loves a good cherrybomb!

cobaltstg2

its going to be really really loud i wounldt do it man... just me but i wouldnt

tru2nrtt777

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I would but it will sound like ****, i have to vote not to do it.

D4u2s0t

not on a cobalt they don't

MagCobalt

i have a magnaflow exhuast with obx header and it's loud as **** already, when i drive normal they think im racing. sometime it ****'s me off. so sometimes i drive real slow so it's not loud

WhiteSSBalt

Yeah, same happens with me all the time. Im always just trying to drive normally.....but then you always have some ass that thinks your messing with him......when you really arent, lol.

omgshesaboy

gross

MagCobalt

yah no cherry bomb on a cobalt. maybe a civic


v-TEEECH

tonio5555

It'll be loud, and not good straight pipe LS1 loud.. like civic loud lol. Your best best is an aftermarket performance exhaust or just get a custom straight pipe with a good resonator or high flow muffler.

cobaltssredtint

straight pipes only sounds good on v8, turbo cars , rotary engines....plus on the balt you need the back pressure so stick with one of aftermarket exhaust system....or do what most people do, vibrant header/dp and vibrant exhaust

Jn2

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if you wanna go staight pipe, try gettin the pacesetter header or the obx, and get the dp from exhaust depot, their dp has no cat, and has a resonator biult onto the dp to try and make it quiter, and keep the resonator from the catback, hell maybe even have a shop throw in another resonator, to quiet it down some more, i have a obx header, and megan exhaust, sounds great, not to loud, and not to quiet

MagCobalt

is the vibrant 3"? thats ok, but you loose low end power. it's alright on turbo/sc's.

i pretty much have what Jn2 has, we think it's good. i have a highflow cat right after the flang thats right at the end of the header.

anyone know why my collant is sitting lower than before? used to be 88-89c . now when i drive around it's at like 76c.

07BluBalt

my bros vr6 sounds sick straight piped

Jn2

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i have obx header custom 2.25" dp and megan exhaust

and it work fine for me, nice tone, good sound

MagCobalt

hey jn2, since we got such a close set-up. let me ask you something.
does yours make a crackle sound when it's a bit cold? i can't drive it hard untill i have driven for 10 min or it doesn this.

and are you worried about cracks or leaks? if so how can i check just put my hand in the middle of the pipes? will i really feel it coming out?

thnx

RedBaseBolt

It sounds like you have the same problem as me. I can't drive the car hard when it's cold because all I can hear when WOT'ing it is the exhaust sound and massive amount of ticking. I'm pretty sure it's a bad seal around the DP and that once it warms up everything expands and seals properly.

MagCobalt

yah, i dunno what it is. I don't care just when i try to rip it at the start it sounds like crap. But also when i first start to drive the clutch catch's weird and stronger. But once that warms up it's all good aswell.

I just wanna find out why my coolant is so low (the temp). It's weird, but meh, isn't higher temp worse?

RedBaseBolt

My coolant varies' between 83degs and 89 when driving normally. In stop and go traffic I've seen it go as high as 109 before.

MagCobalt

thats what mine did. now it's in the 70;s. sometimes high 60's.


what that one guy said about the vr6, i heard they are fast. is your brothers name jeff?