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Originally Posted by HAWAIIZR-1
Max,
Sorry to intrude on your post, but I have a few questions or comments for the group.
Why does SW put a baffle in the X pipe? It sounds like that defeats the purpose and why charge someone $100 to not have the baffle?
Why does B&B not want to sell someone their X pipe; we all know they make one for our cars and I hope it does not have a baffle.
If I can't pass emissions here in Japan to register my Z, then I want to put my headers back on, no cats and X pipe to replace resonator for max performance (with tune) and best sounds (especially having cams). I will just get temp plate and drive it periodically and not give a crap about polluting, sound decibels, drone since they make it so difficult to register. Like Scott said, if it will reduce the drone then that is plus.
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Don't know about B+B altho I had tried to buy a separate item from them once and was told they don't do that.
As for the SW X, I thought I had bought what Paul, and Pete, and Al had gotten. When I got the Xpipe, which came within 2 days of ordering, I saw the baffles insides and I have posted pics of them (
http://zr1.net/forum/showpost.php?p=126147&postcount=67). Baffles have since been tossed. Al installed my Xpipe in place of the MFlow X+resonator setup. While he was at it, he removed the baffles. A true ZR-1 brudda!
So I now have Watson 1 7/8" headers followed by the SW X and backed by MFlow mufflers. It is louder than before but not harsher. It is also DEEPER. You can hear the cams now. Not radical but a definite beat to them. At cruise with a steady or slight off throttle, its pretty mellow. I can hear the radio fine. There is some drone when motor is under load at 1500rpm. However, my plan is to out in 3.90s or 4.10s in rear which should help especially since my 19" Z06 wheels reduce the current 3.45 gear to about a 3.00.
Still investigating Z06 tip+flappers on Dynomax UltraFlows.