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Thanks for the link, and good posts.

As someone said earlier, our cars have their own unique sound, and thats what I am going for. The American style car sound is what I like, so those are the qualities I would like to exemplify with a good exhaust setup on this car.

 

you and me both bro. im pretty sure im goin magnaflow when the time comes

and thx

 

I've heard good stuff 'bout Magnaflow, it is just a little more expensive. I am giving this one a try cause it seems like such a good deal.

When the time comes let us all know how it goes!

 

sounds great

 

i have magnaflow (cat and muffler, soon resonator) and love it. it sounds decent for 4-banger but by no means does it sound like muscle. i think a custom magnaflow setup is the way to go, but header and dp have a lot to do with the tone also. (i had a catless dp on for a while and it was raspy as hell, then i got the cat welded on and it sounded like sex)

 

Magnaflow here, and I did a ton of listening to sound clips and vids/research before getting mine. Magnaflow was my choice and I don't regret it at all. It's one of the deeper cat-backs, audible when you're stepping on it, but at idle is a deep mellow aggressive tone. Not loud, but obviously not stock when you hear it either.

 

did you find the magnaflow drowned out your engine noise at all? i hate when mufflers are louder than the engine...

 

the exhaust is much louder than the engine, but i think any exhaust other than stock will cause that on our cars

 

you running the resonator?

 

stock

 

hmm. i love the sound of my engine. i want idle rumble though. well see what happens when i get the vibrant header/dp

 

i have the ca v1 header, vibrant dp w/ magnaflow cat, stock catback w/ magnaflow muffler, and 4' magnaflow tip

 

haha dude, sweet

 

the ark DTS is deep and loud, no rasp what so ever......... and IMO looks way better than the megan or ark N2 .............

 

pics? vids?

 

just had it installed yesterday, gimmie a little time

 

ok, u got 1 hour

 

does anyone have any opinions on the SLP Loudmouth II (single outlet)?

 

i seem to remember seeing it in a video. i dont think i liked it. buuuuuut, that was on video. and imo.

 

idk...i was consider getting the SLP because make a "track" resonator that just bolts right on

 

Vibrant, GMPP > All..

im posting my new vid now, ill send the link up once its done

p.s. megan sounds like ****, SLP is kinda sweet tho

 

word

 

nice

 

well it obviously takes very little to make you doubt yourself if you're worried someone thinks your car sounds "ricey"

 

I've always been of the opinion that anything that smells like a performance mod, and is not specifically necessary to make your car go faster, or that actually hurts performance, is rice. Disregarding visual mods for a moment, I consider a 4 inch exhaust on a car that can't handle the larger pipes as rice. Long as you can put up with the sound, it's matched properly to the car, and it's tastefully done (i.e. it looks like it belongs there), it's cool in my book.

Me personally, I've been looking for ways to get a performance exhaust and quiet it down without losing power (and I know precisely dick about resonators, glasspacks and all that mumbo-jumbo that gets thrown around in exhaust threads). I don't like to advertise that I've got a bit of pep under the hood, makes getting from A to B easier without having every hopped-up car in a college town trying to race me.