- What's the one thing
that everybody wants to do to their car? Make it louder, of course. But, there's so many ways to
go about making a car louder. Well, we're going to take a
look at one of those ways today and we're going to install a
set of wireless exhaust cutouts on my boy Nolan's
Mustang, so that he can go from quiet to riot with
the push of a button. What do you think? - Sounds pretty good. - Let's do it.
- Yeah. Money pit, baby. (thunder cracking)
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(clock ticking) The inevitable stride of time keeps going. - All right Nolan,
before we go any further, let's find out how loud your car is now. I got a decibel meter. - Sweet. - What are you, any guesses? How many decibels you think
you're putting out at idle? - At idle, probably
like 60 decibel at idle. - That's a good guess. A stab in the dark, I understand. - And then like a good
revving, maybe like 80. - You know what? I bet you're close. Let's go find out.
- Okay. I have no idea. Hey Jobe, are you ready?
- Yep. (engine revving) Oh, pretty quiet. Okay, now try to hold it at 4,000 RPM. (engine revving) - Okay, so she's pretty quiet. We've got 101 decibels
while he's revving it. So, that's basically our number
to beat with the cutouts. I don't think it's going to be a problem. I think we're going to make
this thing a lot louder. All right, while Nolan gets
the car off the ground, let's talk about some of your options for exhaust modifications. Now first off, why would you even do
an exhaust modification? Well, now we've been
over this stuff before. We've done a few videos on exhaust stuff. You can check those out here and here. But just to quickly cover it, of course, modifying your exhaust
can make it sound better and it can free up a few extra horsepower. But, there's a few ways to go about it. I mean, if you've got a bunch of money, you can replace your entire
exhaust from start to finish. But, if you've only got a little money, you can just replace a
piece or a part of it. Like, you can do an
axle back or a cat-back. So, all those mods are cool but they pretty much
leave you with one mode, and that's loud. Which is fine for a lot of
people and for a lot of cars, but there are a lot of people
out there with daily drivers that they wish could make more noise, but they also like being
able to cruise comfortably and quietly. So, that's where you kind of land on something like what we've got today, which is exhaust cutouts. So, Nolan will be able to hit a button and make a bunch of noise,
and then hit it again and go back to being quiet
without even thinking about it. It's really convenient. Now, the cutouts we're going to be putting on Nolan's car actually come
from where I used to work. So, shouts out to my
boys over at ECS Tuning. Let's go take a look at
the cutouts they sent. (air whooshing) How's it going, Nolan? - You want it higher, probably? - Oh my God, so much higher. (upbeat music) All right, so here's what we have. We've got two cutouts
from my boys over at ECS. They're real nice. They're made out of stainless
and they're vacuum actuated. So, we're actually going
to connect the vacuum from Nolan's engine to these
canisters on the cutouts. And that's what'll physically
open the flaps in here. But in operation, all
Nolan's going to have to do is click a button on the key fob, and then that'll trigger a
solenoid that sends that vacuum to the canister and opens
or closes the cutout. So, this is all that's
going to be in the car or on Nolan's key ring. And then, this is what's going to be under the car doing
the actual cutout work. So, they're pretty simple. They just gives the
exhaust a path to freedom. And all we got to do is cut
some exhaust out of Nolan's car and slip these things in. It should be pretty easy. - We're going to take our cutouts and find a place along the exhaust pipe where these boys will fit. And then we'll actually measure out and cut a section of the
exhaust out, replace it. And there you go, now you've got your path for the exhaust to escape. - Yo, Nolan. Quit talking about it and
let's come be about it. - Okay.
- All right. It is time to actually
install these things. So, we're going to do a little
divide and conquer setup. Nolan's going to go under the hood and work on installing the
solenoid for the vacuum. It should be pretty easy. And I'm going to go under the car and actually install the cutouts, which also should be pretty easy. - Let's do it.
- Cool. - And, time! I don't know how to wire things. (upbeat music) - Okay, so under the hood,
Nolan has basically two jobs. First off, we need to tee
into his vacuum system in the engine, like we talked about. The vacuum line's going to have to go back to the cutouts to actually actuate them. So, that should be pretty easy. We've got some Ts that came with the kit and we just need to physically
tee into a vacuum line. And then, in line in that
vacuum line that we tee out is going to be this solenoid. It'll go the vacuum from the engine, and then this will go back to the cutouts. And then basically, this
is what turns on and off when you hit the button to
actually actuate the cutouts. Now, the thing that triggers this is this. So, we also have to
install this little box which connects to the solenoid. And this is our wireless
receiver for the key fobs. So, this just basically
recognizes the signal when Nolan pushes the button. It takes power from your
battery and from your ground. And then, it sends a
signal to this solenoid which lets vacuum through,
which sends it back to the cutouts, and
then they magically open and then close again
when you hit the button. So, it is really a simple setup, but there's just a
handful of things to do. All we gotta do is do them. - All right, where the
(beep), there it is. The vacuum line diameter is much bigger than our step-down is. It doesn't even hold in. One, I already cut this vacuum line, so this is the one we
kind of have to go with. And there's really not that
many options when it comes to vacuum lines on this engine,
which is pretty interesting. So, we'll just have to go to
the Pep Boys down the street and hopefully get something
that works for this. 'Cause as it stands right
now, my car is immobile. All right, while Nolan's working on that, I'm going to go under here and mark out what we need to cut out so we can install the cutouts. Should be pretty easy, but we're going to have to figure out how to stagger them so they both
fit in the space we have. See what we can do. Okay, so we need to trim on the inside of these pieces of tape and just cut out this section right here. And then, our cutout will replace it and slip over both ends of
the pipe, and that's it. We just need to do that on both sides. All right, so there are plenty of ways that you can cut an exhaust pipe. You can use a cutoff wheel, a
reciprocating saw, a hacksaw. But, there's also one of these. This is an exhaust pipe cutter. Basically, just got a
bunch of hardened steel, real sharp wheels in here. So, I basically just wrap
this around the exhaust pipe and then clamp it together
here at the bottom, pinch the pliers tight
to put pressure on it. And then, I can just kind of go like this and it should cut right through. These are pretty sweet,
only like 30 or 40 bucks. Good! One section disconnecto. Decent looking cut, we'll
clean her up with a file. Now I just gotta make this cut and get this piece out of here. All right, well it looks
like the rear section exhaust is going to have to come all the way down to give me enough room to get
the the old cutout in between, which, I mean, makes sense. But, I was really hoping
that I could push this more. But, I just can't do it. Okay, well the first
one is roughly in place. We had to tighten some things up and then hang this section
of the exhaust back up. But, the good news is that it fits. It's not going to make
contact with anything. And we should have no problem
getting our vacuum line routed to it. Okay, I think I'm gonna
be able to make this work with a little bit of trimming. And the other good news is
that Nolan actually found what he needed and he's back now. - This guy. Great, and look at that! It's nice, like that, this angled a little tee
here kind of sets us up for success, hopefully. All right, next step, I'll be connecting the smaller vacuum line that will feed back to the
solenoid where Zach is working. So, we'll do that. Here we go. Just like any other sort of
line, you're going to want to avoid putting this near
any really hot surfaces 'cause you don't want
to, like, melt a hole in your vacuum line. And I'm feeling good today. Taking off my wheel here just
so I can have a better view of the routing situation. It's not that big a deal when
you've got a nice impact gun. All right, so as you can
see, dangling my little, my little hose down. All right, Jobe had a good idea to route the vacuum lines
as close to the, like, fuel lines as we can just 'cause
it's it's already protected by this little skid plate here. And I think that's a good idea, 'cause right now how I have
it routed is right next to the exhaust. So, that's not what we want. - Okay, well the second one is in place and I haven't even trimmed it yet. And it's really not bad. We are losing probably an
inch of ground clearance here, which I don't really like. So, I'm going to trim this turndown so I can rotate this up a little bit more and save Nolan's ground clearance. Should be okay. All right, well I'm going to work on trimming this turn down. You want to work on wiring
up the solenoid trigger? - Sure. - Or finding a place to mount
it or any of those things? - Yeah, yeah, yeah. Do that.
- Let's do it. - Okay.
- Let's do it. (rock music) - All right, while Zach is
finishing up the back end, we're going to continue up front. We're going to wire up the antenna box to the fuse relay here. Make sure the cable
management is done correctly, 'cause this looks really bad right now. And also, find a place
to mount this solenoid. So, I had the wire routed
out in my engine bay. I was just going to, like, zip tie to the existing wiring harness. But, Jobe had a really good point that that would look like (beep) So, what I did is undid
my cowl here so I'm going to be able to just hide
the wire underneath here. There's a lot of space. And just tuck that into there, and Bob's your uncle, you know? Now, I have a couple options
for mounting the antenna box onto the shock tower here. There's already a preexisting hole there that we could probably
riv nut and make work. But, the holes on the unit
itself are actually really small. So, I don't feel too good about that, just be kind of weird. So, the other option is
some double-sided tape here. Just really easy, don't
need to cut anything, don't need to use any tools, and it'll probably last a long time. You can either go two ways
with double-sided tape. It'll either last, like, a week or you will never be able
to get it off anything in your entire life
without the aid of solvent. So, I think that's a pretty decent option. - All right, well it's still
got a little bit of turn down. Not much, granted. I'm going to clean that
up and then test fit it. I think she'll fit. All right, so I'm just test fitting to see which of these loops best
fit on the main power wire. It looks like the smaller one, which is the one I
wanted to go with anyway. So, that's good. So, this will be power, and then we gotta find a ground somewhere, and then we'll be good, which
is a pretty cool, actually. This could be a ground right here. - Yeah, that should be pretty good. That should be decent on ground clearance and it comes out nice. It still turns down pretty well. It should shoot off of
the pipe a little bit and hit the ground. Yeah, I think that's gonna be cool. Let me get this back half in. - [Nolan] Where's that check valve? - You know, I want to
say it's in this creeper. (punch landing)
Ow! Wow, (beep)! I've never been hit in
the armpit like that. I moved it earlier, but
I don't remember where. (upbeat music) Okay, so I'm just tightening up the clamps on the cutouts now. I think I've got them
in their final position, nice and packaged in here. It is a little tight over here, so I'm going to keep an eye on that, make sure that it doesn't make
contact when these get hot. Because obviously, your
exhaust gets really hot when the car is running and
because of that, it expands. So, I'm going to make sure none of this actually makes
contact once it is warm. But, I think we're going to be okay. So, I'm just going to tighten these up and then we just gotta
put the vacuum lines onto the canisters. Okay, so the cutouts are fully installed. They're all plumbed up. And, Nolan's got everything
wired under the hood. So, the install is done. Now, we just need to get
the car off the jack stands and let this baby sing. - All right, let's do it. (car starting) Want me to try? - [Zach] Let's flip them puppies open. Oh yeah! (engine revving) That's more like it. (engine revving) - Okay, so now that the
cutouts are on and working, let's get some decibel readings and see how loud things are now. - Jobe, you ready? - [Zach] Yes! Okay, she's open now. All right, give her some revs. (engine revving) All right, now try
holding it up 4,000 okay. (engine revving) That's good! Okay well, not like it's a huge surprise, but we did pick up some
decibels across the board. Picked up about three at idle, picked up about 15 revving it, and we picked up about 21 at 4,000 RPMs. That's a lot of decibels. And the thing doesn't sound wild. I think it sounds really good and refined. But, I also think it's
going to sound even better on the road under some load. So, let's go drive it. And God help him if there
are any crowds out there. - Very original. All right, hopefully we
don't scrape it off as we, which way should we go? - Scrape it off. - Let's go that way.
- Any way you want. You know, the ground
clearance thing, first off, it looks like you've got
great ground clearance. We really didn't lose much. But it's also really close to your axle, so that you know, anything you hit, it'll be hitting your tires. - I'm gonna turn this off
real quick so we can talk. - I love talking over a loud exhaust. I don't know about you. All right, let's let this baby sing. (engine revving) Well, the Mustang finally
sounds like a Mustang. - It does, it really does! It sounds awesome.
- Do you like it? - I love it! It's not, I mean, I'm sure
it's obnoxious as hell on the outside when we did that. - I don't think obnoxious
is the right word. - But it, like, that's the sound you want when you have a car like this. - Yeah, when you have a V8,
you should be hearing it. - Yeah.
- And now I'm glad you can. And it's also nice that you can also not. - Yeah.
- Right? You know, you can close
her and pull into your, into the home and not
wake your neighbors up. - I would not want to
have this all the time, that's for sure.
- Right. Yeah, and I get that, you know? Like, it is really nice to have a car that is just comfortable. - Yeah. - Well Nolan, I'm glad
the Mustang finally sounds like a Mustang. - Yeah. Thank you.
- Yeah. Well, hey man, anytime. And also, another thanks to my friends over at ECS
for sending us the cutouts. - [Nolan] Yeah, definitely.
- Big thanks. Sweet way to get Nolan's
Mustang sounding cool. Also, big thanks to you guys for watching. I hope you had a good time helping us make Nolan's Mustang make some noise. So, thanks again for watching. Follow me on Instagram @ZackJobe. Follow Nolan @NolanJSykes. And we'll see you guys next week. Goodbye!
(engine revving) Oh, you want some?
