The Secret Behind the Sound: The X-Pipe Exhaust

here's a quick back-to-back sound comparison to show you guys what everybody was used to hearing or expecting to hear whenever this sterling marlin kodak car went out on the track stations on uh the first lap a couple of miles an hour i was standing around there at the nascar trailer with bill franson and he went by and he went by he said what in the hell have you done now prior to the 95 season that in december the gentleman from salt lake city his name was dr gass that was his stage name or his name that he marketed his product with called and said i think i can help you with four or five horsepower are you interested and i said we worked the deal out and i said yeah send it so we he sent it we dynoed it and then after we dynoed it we had to of course fit it to the car until we got to daytona we really didn't know what it sounded like really yeah i mean it looked different but we didn't know what it sounded like you couldn't tell with a dino room and and we really didn't have a we just ran the x-pipe we didn't know what it sounded like with the tail pipes and everything so our first when they went on the racetrack the first time is first time we had heard it so you were just as shocked as everybody else was well i was real pleased i know that but all week long people would photograph this car and try to catch us with their pants down just to see if they could determine why this car sounded so different they didn't know if the engine they didn't know if it was exhaust they didn't know if it was the intake they didn't know what it was and we wanted to keep them in suspense so we took the qualifying motor out and changed motors i think once they never did see what it was we had blankets on the car we had to cover that pretty good and nascar would let us put it in the trailer at that time anybody could put their car back in the trailer at night so this guard did not have 180 degree headers no 180 degree headers they're just regular headers just regular headers okay well then everybody's collectors just uh a different x-pipe and tailpipes were they uh try collectors or four to one they were uh trial-wise okay