whats the best sounding exhaust for a v6?

[RITTER]

Waste of time, material and money :idea:

Thay can sound decent at idle but as soon as you accelerate, people will laugh at you. Have you ever heard a Mustang/Camaro V6 with dual exhaust (Ranger and S10's are popular ones also) they sound like complete garbage when they are at any other RPM besides idling :idea: Please do not put dual exhaust on a V6 GBody 🙁 It sends a bad message to the public.
If you are really wanting to do some type of perofrmance exhast on the V6, have an aftermarket Y-pipe, high flow cat and a good Magnaflow or Borla SINGLE outlet muffler. IMO, still kind of a waste of money. And believe me, I am not just saying this for no reason. I put a $300 exhaust system on a NEW 3.8L with an Edelbrock cam, intake and 4bl carburetor with headers and it still sounded like garbage :idea:

 

[Trannyman95]

I have the Hooker GN cat-back system on my 86 Cutlass with supercharged 3800 and sounds decent. At idle is pretty throaty sounding (mainly due to engine mods and cam) and a lot of people dont believe its a V6- BUT as most have said on here when you rev the engine or stand on it the sound goes to crap, just part of a V6 unfortunately. I have installed a few of the Hooker kits and they bolt up nicely, all mandrel 2.5" piping that Ys right behind where the factory cat goes. They used to be in the $250-$300 range with their Aerochamber mufflers and the pipes are nice quality. The GNs sound a bit better since they have a turbo to quiet them down. I dont have a cat on my car and is pretty loud but if your engine is stock then it probably wont be too bad. I also had a stock F-body NA 3800 S2 engine in the car with this exhaust and was pretty tame. For the money its hard to beat especially with mufflers, just my $.02

 

[Phoenyx]

I have the Hooker GN cat-back system on my 86 Cutlass with supercharged 3800 and sounds decent. At idle is pretty throaty sounding (mainly due to engine mods and cam) and a lot of people dont believe its a V6- BUT as most have said on here when you rev the engine or stand on it the sound goes to crap, just part of a V6 unfortunately. I have installed a few of the Hooker kits and they bolt up nicely, all mandrel 2.5" piping that Ys right behind where the factory cat goes. They used to be in the $250-$300 range with their Aerochamber mufflers and the pipes are nice quality. The GNs sound a bit better since they have a turbo to quiet them down. I dont have a cat on my car and is pretty loud but if your engine is stock then it probably wont be too bad. I also had a stock F-body NA 3800 S2 engine in the car with this exhaust and was pretty tame. For the money its hard to beat especially with mufflers, just my $.02

Videos and pics? I wanna see this car. And it's rare for a V6 to excite me lol.

 

[G-Body_Vet]

Videos and pics? I wanna see this car. And it's rare for a V6 to excite me lol.

x2. I'd like to see how this sits in the car and how you went about it. Better yet, how does it run? Maybe you should start a thread so we don't totally hijack this one.

 

[1985cutlasssupreme]

I have the Hooker GN cat-back system on my 86 Cutlass with supercharged 3800 and sounds decent. At idle is pretty throaty sounding (mainly due to engine mods and cam) and a lot of people dont believe its a V6- BUT as most have said on here when you rev the engine or stand on it the sound goes to crap, just part of a V6 unfortunately. I have installed a few of the Hooker kits and they bolt up nicely, all mandrel 2.5" piping that Ys right behind where the factory cat goes. They used to be in the $250-$300 range with their Aerochamber mufflers and the pipes are nice quality. The GNs sound a bit better since they have a turbo to quiet them down. I dont have a cat on my car and is pretty loud but if your engine is stock then it probably wont be too bad. I also had a stock F-body NA 3800 S2 engine in the car with this exhaust and was pretty tame. For the money its hard to beat especially with mufflers, just my $.02

lol yes let us see sum pics.