quiet exaust

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ahunt01

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Hi all, I currently have one of those fast and the furious fart mufflers on my car, and I guess I'm finally aging out of rice:o. I am going to take it off, but I want to go the other route. I want a mega-quiet exaust, or as quiet as possible. I still have my factory muffler, so I can just put that on, but I was wondering if there any mufflers out there that is quieter than factory?
 
I've got an 18" resonator and a Vortec turbo muffler (2.25" pipe) on my Accord and it is very quiet at cruising and freeway speeds. Moderate rumble at idle and not real loud at full throttle...in fact, my cold air intake makes more noise when I get on it.
 
If you want quiet, reinstall your OEM muffler and resonator (if that was removed too) and that's pretty much as quiet as it gets without adding more restriction.



Well, I guess if you want it quieter you could always see if you can find a larger resonator, but the factory ones are usually already fairly large.
 
Yeah I'll probably just go factory again. I did have my resonator removed, I thought it would make my exaust louder but it in fact just made it sound nasty. I'm going to put the factory intake back on too, no more AEM. I'm just growing tired of problems with aftermarket parts, so I'm putting it back to stock.
 
u could go for an electric engine transplant instead of puttin a quieter exhaust and doing all the dynamatt u were talkin about before hehe
 
Magnaflow does have sound files on their website at http://www.magnaflow.com/04sound.htm



I love my Magnaflow catback. They are quiet at idle and low rpms but do open up quite a bit at higher rpms. It is a mellow deep tone. Also, don't be scared off by prices you find on the net. Magnaflow changed their policy about on-line pricing. Call a Magnaflow dealer and get pricing.
 
Cool, yeah they sound nice. Sounds much more sporty than my current muffler. I'm really not looking for that much deepness though. Heh you have a sports car thus a deep exaust, I have a Civic so I'm trying to get away from sportiness and concentrate on keeping the paint shine, and college.
 
They don't get as sporty sounding as the site files. Those might not of been on stock Civics. Mine comes with a resonator and a muffler and by the time the exhaust note gets out of the tail pipe you don't even notice. I would not go back to stock exhaust if I was you. They always seem to be too restrictive and you can lot beat the look of a nice shiney chrome exhaust tip. Oh, another cool this is that the Magnaflow exhaust tips are not the size of coffee cans. See mine here http://www.autopia.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=2011&papass=&sort=1
 
Ah ok, that's your civic. I've seen it before when browsing through the member's gallery. Looks great man, I especially like the tail lights. I'm not fond of the new civic's tail lights, and I don't like the chrome altezzas, but on black the black altezzas look nice. Well I'll look around at some local shops and price the Magnaflow exhausts, haha I just realized I did't spell exahust correct in my other posts, doh.
 
Thanks man!



Good luck.



Oh, magnaflow runs a lot of group buys so e-mail or call them and see if they got one going now...I got mine through them direct.
 
ahunt01 said:
I've heard of magnaflow before. How does that sound compared to stock?
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Horribly loud. I had one on my Accord for 3 days. That was all I could stand. Even with an 18" resonator, there was a constant drone at freeway speeds and every ricer within a mile would rev on me. I went back to the shop and got the Vortec Turbo muffler.



BTW, the Magnaflow I had was a straight thru design.
 
Scottwax said:
Horribly loud. I had one on my Accord for 3 days. That was all I could stand. Even with an 18" resonator, there was a constant drone at freeway speeds and every ricer within a mile would rev on me. I went back to the shop and got the Vortec Turbo muffler.



BTW, the Magnaflow I had was a straight thru design.
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Scott, did you have a custom exhaust done with a Magnaflow muffler? Cause I have all magnaflow, including their resonator, and it is very quiet.



I wish I could make a sound clip for you guys.
 
If you don't know what the AEM intake alone (with stock exhaust) sounds like, try leaving that on for a while and see if you find it obstrusive.



One thing I like about intake mods over exhaust mods is that they're quiet when I'm tooling around town at normal speeds (ie, low RPM) but they really roar when you hit the gas hard. :spot



Of course if you do a lot of highway driving it might be too much though, as 4 bangers like Civics hit something like 3 grand easily at highway speeds?
 
Yeah the civic does hit around there at highway speeds lol. I was thinking that when I put down sound deadening material on the floor and firewall then the intake won't be noticable. Maybe a little noticable at highway speeds, but just driving around town like you said it should be fine other than a faint sucking sound.
 
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