Jaeger, While changing out pipes, I couldn't resist, didn't try much to resist, fired it up with just the exhaust pipe. It was pretty loud and sounded really crappy with a popping noise. My TOR's with all the baffles is louder and sound much better. It has some growel. Runs much better with that and the snorkle removed. Now the SS long slash cuts sound great and perform really well. Anyway the straight exhaust pipes s@#k.
Ps The engineers claim that a well designed exhaust system removes the exhaust better than open exhaust.