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Since the link to the Muffler Performance site is dead now, and people have been asking for exhaust clips, I thought I'd try to live up to my reputation and compile some hyperlinks for ya.
Please feel free to add more links of your exhaust clips to this thread and keep whoring to a minimum, that way if the mods wanna sticky this, it'll be nice and "clean". Thanks guys...
Exhaust Clips
VQ30 Clips
upstatemax - VQ30, Berk intake, HotShot headers, Custom Enterprise Highflow Cat, Cattman B-Pipe and Stock 02 muffler.
Btw, people whose set-ups I've posted, if I got your exhaust set-up wrong or incomplete, please let me know so I can edit for the sake of accurate information.
Last edited by Puppetmaster; 03-03-2009 at 11:19 AM.
-94 toyota pickup 4cyl 4x4 daily work truck
-97 camaro z28 [ sold]
-06 -g35 sedan 6MT [sold]
-02 merlot red 6mt full bolt ons [sold]
-97 - maxima 5MT [ hit bambi at 75mph]
CM Gen I Headers, 22"x4" perforated core resonator, Moroso splitflow 'race' muffler, what's left of a Cattman b-pipe, and a stock rear piece.
Sounds like steven88's at idle and slight throttle, but when opened, it doesn't have near the amount of rasp. Even the backfires seem muffled and 'soft'
The microphone on the camrea isnt that great. I think my flex pipe has a leak and you can def tell it rattles at high rpms lol, also the sound doesnt get messed up in the videos till the rpms start to drop.
Just got this setup done a few weeks ago and had a chance to snap a few quick videos, sorry about it being dark I've been real busy at work lately. It is a catback setup, 2" b pipe with the resonator removed out to a magnaflow 14816 2.25" inlet/dual 3.5" stainless tips. I figured the guy would see the inlet on the muffler was 2.25" and make the b-pipe out of that, but then again this was meineke and it only cost $200 total but it came out pretty good I think and I love the sound.
This is what I look like now. I paid more for the tip than for the muffler! Still got a great deal, $57 for the Flowmaster and $68 for the Magnaflow tip. It sounds awesome! No bees in a can/fart can sound at all.
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Here are two new videos. One of which is a video of me revving inside the car with the windows down, the other is just normal driving with the windows up. Again, I have a Flowmaster 40 series muffler, and the GAB mod.
My resonator rotted out so i opted to change the piping after the catalytic converter with 2.5" all the way to the muffler. The muffler is a Flowmaster Original 40 Series 2.5" Offset inlet / Center outlet, and best part.. I USED THE STOCK TIP.
How can you use the stock tip?
Easy.. take off the stock tip from your exhaust by removing a bolt at the bottom of the exhaust tip and pry off the tip, it might be a little rusted. Then.. once you remove it you will notice it will have two round metal sleeve inside made to mount onto the stock exhaust. Just then, simply look at where the inside sleeve is spot welded onto the outer shinier casing, and grab a drill bit a little bigger than the spot welds and drill them out. There should be 8 of them i think, and pry the inside sleeve out. Your then left with the outside shiny casing of the tip, the part you want. The opening thats left should exactly be 2.5" already, so when you go to mount it on the muffler, just have them tack weld the sucker on and your golden.
yea it leaves some spacing on either side, but if you paint the inside of the tip black and the face of the muffler that you can see when you look eye level at the tip, no one will notice.. heck.. i dont think anyone will even notice when its like this because the muffler sits far back.
And now.. for the video i took it at a park so my neighbors dont complain..
yes i know i suck at revving my engine to make it sound nice lol but you get the gist..
as far as sound goes.. oh em gee..
exterior sounds frekkin awesome..
interior resonance, psh, dont even think about conversation without a resonator.. it literaly vibrates my steering wheel
it low rumbles at idle.. and is very deep and loud from 2-3k rpm in first and second gear.. even with the windows up from 2-3k rpm but after its pretty quiet
third and fourth is very smooth and you can hear it there but you can talk and not have a headache.. Its dead silent when your taveling at engine speed though, which is good.
Overall.. its just another reason for me to burn some more gas revving for fun ;D
so.. thats all there is to it lol hope someone likes it
UPDATE!
the ridiculous interior resonance has died down quite a bit now.. i think its breaking in.. the tone is much richer and 5.0 Mustang like ok.. maybe not.. but close lol later on il upload new pics of the face of the muffler you can see when you kneel down black.. looks much better
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Last edited by impact'sa33; 11-05-2007 at 02:49 PM.
Ok I got a video of my flowmaster 50 series deltaflow. Its a low-quality cellphone video but it'll work. The car is still warming up so its maybe just a TAD louder than when its completely warmed up. At any rate its still VERY QUIET. I love it. Its exactly the tone I was looking for. To all of those that think that a flowmaster muffler doesn't sound right on Maxima, you need to hear this in person. IMHO it sounds much better than the 40 series that several members have installed. Smoother and more refined.
And NO, that is not burnt oil! Its just vapor from the exhaust. Its cold here!
The microphone on the camrea isnt that great. I think my flex pipe has a leak and you can def tell it rattles at high rpms lol, also the sound doesnt get messed up in the videos till the rpms start to drop.
Got the leak fixed, theres still another one, not sure where its at.
Sound clips with headers/ypipe and a way-too loud muffler
Although it sounded OK (but raspy) with the 40 series flowmaster, it was way too loud inside the cabin. I've since changed over to a 60 series and it's just as quiet as the stock exhaust inside the cabin, but makes a little noise outside.
i took it at a park so my neighbors dont complain..
Its cold here!
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