Exhaust Drone, its killing me. recomendations?

capercode

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03 Cobra I bought new. Within 100 miles I had a Bassani system installed. Seemed ok originally, but to be up front, I've only driven the car less then 800 miles per year. The drone is so bad, I don't drive it any more. I have heard Magnaflow is free flowing but no drone. Anyone with opinions would be greatly appreciated. I don't want any drone.

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I see a sale is not gonna happen.

Lose the X pipe. I have a Bassani cat back. Factory catted H pipe. Sounds great, no drone.
 

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Just go O/R H that loses the drone. I have a o/r X with stingers and it droned so bad it would give you a headache; switched to a Mac H and it cut drone down but it made the stingers about 10X louder for some reason. Went with the magnaflow system and it is quiet when I want it to be and loud when I hit the go pedal.


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No power loss?

Thanks..rcode
I have not had a non catted X on my current car (04 Cobra) so I can't speak to power gain/loss. My current factory catted H pipe, Bassani 3" hand polished cat-back does not drone at all and sounds great.

I had a complete Magnaflow high flow catted X pipe system on my '01 and it droned a lot.
 

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I have no drone with a catted bassani x pipe and magnaflow cat back (not magnapacks). I had a terrible drone with a factory h pipe and cats with a flow master cat back on a previous car.
 

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If you want no drone and want to stick with your Bassani X-pipe, check out the Steeda catback. My first setup was a Magnaflow X-pipe with cats and Magnaflow catback. Horrible drone at around 2200 RPMs. So bad it was hard to carry on a conversation in the car. I replaced the Magnaflow with the Steeda catback and the drone was completely gone at any RPM. It was quieter overall than most other catbacks, but still had a bite at WOT. If it is, I highly recommend it. The Steeda catback, I believe, still uses a Borla muffler.
 

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