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i have a "Thrush" glasspack on my other car, (temporarily), it ran me about 25 bucks. sounds alright, and it was much cheaper than getting an OE exhaust for now(im currently restoring a '56 mercedes 190 sl...but on hold till next summer). go online and get the summit racing catalog...theyll have it.
in my trep, though, i ripped out the entire exhaust back of the 3rd cat, and replaced with bent pipe to a flowmaster 40 series muffler that sounds awesome. for the fiberpack, though, i would imagine that you'd probably have to do the same procedure, since the stock resonator at the rear is a turbo style muffler (on the 3.5l, the 3.3 just has that big box under the rear seats...3.5 has both the box-shaped muffler and the resonator out the rear...the muffler lookin thing with dual pipes).
how i installed it on my mercedes, though, was a little different. i put it on real messy, right after the header, no pipe out of the rear. i just put it on to keep it quiet. (its a 4-banger...1.9 liters of raw, carburated, german horsepower!!!)
the best way for you (if you want to do it right) would probably be to take the car, glasspack in hand, to a muffler shop. this is where it could become pricey...unless you know somebody with a hydrolic pipe bender...
tell them to put er' on the lift, cut off everything from the cat back, fab a replacement pipe, and bolt the glasspack on (dont weld, cause you may need to replace the fiberglass inside later on)...hope this helps...oh yeah, people are gonna tell you that you'll lose low end torque, that is correct, but not so much that it'll be a problem (there's still back pressure from the 3 catalytic converters)...hope my babbling helps
in my trep, though, i ripped out the entire exhaust back of the 3rd cat, and replaced with bent pipe to a flowmaster 40 series muffler that sounds awesome. for the fiberpack, though, i would imagine that you'd probably have to do the same procedure, since the stock resonator at the rear is a turbo style muffler (on the 3.5l, the 3.3 just has that big box under the rear seats...3.5 has both the box-shaped muffler and the resonator out the rear...the muffler lookin thing with dual pipes).
how i installed it on my mercedes, though, was a little different. i put it on real messy, right after the header, no pipe out of the rear. i just put it on to keep it quiet. (its a 4-banger...1.9 liters of raw, carburated, german horsepower!!!)
the best way for you (if you want to do it right) would probably be to take the car, glasspack in hand, to a muffler shop. this is where it could become pricey...unless you know somebody with a hydrolic pipe bender...
tell them to put er' on the lift, cut off everything from the cat back, fab a replacement pipe, and bolt the glasspack on (dont weld, cause you may need to replace the fiberglass inside later on)...hope this helps...oh yeah, people are gonna tell you that you'll lose low end torque, that is correct, but not so much that it'll be a problem (there's still back pressure from the 3 catalytic converters)...hope my babbling helps
