heh these cars are quiet compared to my 2001 TA. just curious if anyone ever weight there muffler setup. it def has some major weight to it.
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04-14-2010, 11:32 PM | #76 (permalink) |
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heh these cars are quiet compared to my 2001 TA. just curious if anyone ever weight there muffler setup. it def has some major weight to it.
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Why fabricate new pipes when you can use your stock exhaust without any modifications? What I did was remove the gaskets and replace em with 3-4 washers. Your muffler will pretty much be detached. Ill post pics up whenever I can.
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took me ~30 mins to do mine. i sprayed all the bolts and hangers/rubber mounts with WD-40 and everything came off flawless. since the initial vid i posted up in the 1st page i have gotten custom pipes/tips to finish it off. still waiting for an exhaust to make me want it.... big fan of Tanabe, waiting on them to see what route i will take.
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heres my poor man's exhaust mod:
Sorry for the crappy pic. There is an internal flange so 3-4 washers should allow for the muffler to be fully detached, leaving about 3mm of space. The exhaust becomes loud at 2.5k-3k+ rpms and there is no drone except for when im cruisin at 70mph, but the drone goes away when im going faster than 70mph. |
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Not sure you want to keep the car that way. You'll have hot exhaust gases swirling around under the car. They can melt wires, discolor the underbody components and potentially get exhaust fumes inside the vehicle. You can always get some fab'ed tips like I did before doing a formal exhaust. (search for muffler delete and you'll see my threads)
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If you want to save money and do a muffler delete (which I feel will net some small gains as the stock muffler is chambered and slightly restrictive), I would do some pipes with resontaotrs on it to help the noise some but still be free flowing and allow the deep tone. A muffler shop will be able to weld the resonators on the pipes real cheap like.
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The stock muffler is huge and chambered so having no muffler will net some gains, how much, who knows, as the chambered muffler will cause ristriction. Even if you put a striaght thru muffler on you will net some gains. And if you just use resonators then you tame the volume some and dont mess with the flow, and in place of resonators you could just weld some larger diameter piping in to act like a res. Its all kinda rice for me but Im sure it would work for a cheap mod.
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I see this mod as nothing more than wanting a more pleasing sound without spending $1500. It doesn't mean the people doing want to make their car sound more powerful than it is. They just want a better sound.
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