Well Saturday night I ordered some cutouts after debating long and hard whether or not I should. I went with the Dynomax Stainless manual cutouts from JEGS.com and the tracking number indicates that they should arrive tomorrow.

The question I have is about how it will sound with no X-Pipe to balance the sound out. They will obviously be going before the muffler which is a DI/DO Magnaflow with a built in X-Pipe. Should I expect a lot of popping, a bad sound, or something else I'm not thinking of?

I know it will be uneven, but how bad do you guys think it will be?

 

probaly a little more popping and a slight loss of torque

 

yeah just a lil poping but mostly just well...loud in my sig is my 4.6L open headers thats pretty much how mine sounds with the cut-outs off....if you rev it in park or neutral ull get alot of poping and what not but just driving it will sound just fine. i love when its a nice day and i roll under my truck and take the covers off setting off car alarms is fun

 

It shouldn't be that bad. Should pop minimal depending on engine block temp & how hard of a rev but only a couple pops should come. It will sound good though.

 

I'm planning to do this too, one question though how do you put it bedhind the cat they're is basically no room, do you relocate the cat??.