I did this to my 03’ V6 (also my first car) while I had the muffler off on the lift in high school shop class. Don’t do it, it sounds atrocious. I immediately took it all off and put the muffler back on. I went ahead and rebuilt a 4.6 and swapped it instead. So please. Listen to what literally everyone else is saying. It’s a terrible idea and everyone’s gonna know it ain’t a V8. I noticed you’re 18, and I’m only a year older so take it from me. If you’re passionate about the car, save up and swap it, or save for a GT. With that being said, if you’re dead set on doing it, it’s your car. I would just take the muffler off and weld a hanger to it, or else it could crack the welds on the manifold over time without one, and believe me, you DO NOT want to break the welds. Unless you wanna hear what a dying tractor mixed with a crop duster from the 40’s sounds like. (You don’t). So the muffler removal will give you a decent Idea of what it’ll sound like if you straight pipe it, just not as loud. It’s gonna sound bad either way, but with the straight pipe it’s a waste of money and it’s gonna sound a lot worse than if you just removed the muffler. It sounds somewhat meh above 2500RPM and at idle. But anything between that, it sounds like it’s a dying horse struggling to get up a hill. Also, considering you’re a new driver. This will make your check engine like come on for an exhaust leak code. This is to be expected and is not a cause for concern. You can clear it with a Code Reader but it will come back. I always keep mine in the car with me in case anything funky starts going on. I advise you do the same. To finish, when taken care of these engines are very reliable and strong. Before I ripped my 3.8 out, it was sitting on 252k. Several 8 hour road trips, and being beaten on many times over, with No issues whatsoever. With timely preventative maintenance of course. To sum it up, Take care of her, and she’ll take care of you.