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Old Feb 7, 2010 | 07:28 PM
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exhaust help

I'm pretty sure this is the wrong section to put it in, but I could not find a section where exhaust topics would go.

Anyway, I've had my car for two years and I decided to sort of cheat the whole exhaust system and just get a performance muffler for $20 on Ebay. Yeah, big mistake since that thing is super annoyingly loud and sounds like crap.

So, I went to my local Pepboys and asked if there was still an inexpensive way to replace my muffler alone to sound not as loud but still give me a little bit of an HP boost.

To sum it up, I don't want a whole exhaust system; I just simply want to replace the muffler and not have it with a loud raspy sound. Is there such a thing???

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Old Feb 7, 2010 | 07:30 PM
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Magnaflow muffler should work well.
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Old Feb 7, 2010 | 07:30 PM
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SS/SC muffler not sure what else
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Old Feb 7, 2010 | 07:31 PM
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hmmm, that's a good start. Never thought of that. Anything else? Magnaflow will probably be more on the expensive side, is there anything else more affordable?
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Old Feb 7, 2010 | 07:33 PM
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hmmm, that's a good start. Never thought of that. Anything else? Magnaflow will probably be more on the expensive side, is there anything else more affordable?
Quit being cheap.
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Old Feb 7, 2010 | 07:36 PM
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lol you're right. I will. I amlooking at some magnaflow mufflers right now. I guess I might as well get something that'll do the job right.
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Old Feb 7, 2010 | 07:37 PM
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just find some standard muffler.. ive heard dynomax mufflers sound good. i got a cherry bomb turbo series muffler & it sounds pretty good too ( only 20 bucks too )
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Old Feb 7, 2010 | 07:38 PM
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lol you're right. I will. I amlooking at some magnaflow mufflers right now. I guess I might as well get something that'll do the job right.
There we go. Also could check out Flowmaster. Oh and Dynomax turbo muffler.

Dynomax would be good if you want quiet at cruise but still good flow.
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Old Feb 8, 2010 | 09:21 AM
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ya dynomax is pretty cheap and has good flow for a cheaper muffler
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Old Feb 8, 2010 | 11:47 AM
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I tried to find some videos on dynomax mufflers, but I couldn't find a decent one. So I guess my only concern is that if they are too loud. I don't want a muffler that super loud even when I'm just driving slow.
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Old Feb 9, 2010 | 12:05 AM
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just find some standard muffler.. ive heard dynomax mufflers sound good. i got a cherry bomb turbo series muffler & it sounds pretty good too ( only 20 bucks too )
I was just looking at the cherry bomb muffler, does it sound raspy at all?
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Old Feb 9, 2010 | 01:03 AM
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ok last post about this from me..hopefully.

this is the muffler from Dynomax I'm thinking of getting..how is this one? Again, I don't really care much for HP gain, but I just want to know if sounds good, and I don't want to go back to stock. Mainly because I don't know where my stock muffler is... >.>

http://www.carjunky.com/partstore/?N...14b4c6a5fce373
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Old Feb 9, 2010 | 01:13 AM
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junk imo but i doubt any of us are going to know what that sounds like considering we only deal with 2.5 inlet and 4"+ outlet. just spend 100 bucks and get a decent one with a 4 inch tip it will sound alot better than that dynomax
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Old Feb 9, 2010 | 07:05 AM
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junk imo but i doubt any of us are going to know what that sounds like considering we only deal with 2.5 inlet and 4"+ outlet. just spend 100 bucks and get a decent one with a 4 inch tip it will sound alot better than that dynomax

Dynomax is not junk *******....
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Old Feb 9, 2010 | 11:03 AM
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I was just looking at the cherry bomb muffler, does it sound raspy at all?
nope, not really.. i would say it sounds sorta stock, but deeper with a little more growl (not too much though).. at WOT it does give you something to listen to compared to stock, & for the price it was a win-win
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