looking for right exhaust for bp swap

[loknlode]

I want a nice sound w/o it being loud. imo theres nothing worse than a rice burner with a fart can on it that sounds like the low note on a trombone. sorry if thats your thing - it ain't mine.

having said that and making the necessary apologies, I was thinking a 14" resinator with a 20" glass pack will give a good but not obnoxious rumble. either one by itself will probably be too loud for me. and I don't want excess vibrations.

btw, 2" pipe all the way.

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Let me know how that works out for ya! I have some 2 1/4" pipe laying around I'm going to use, mainly because its free, but I haven't thought much about the rest.

[Damkid]

Personally I love the sound of flo-pro mufflers, they are pretty quiet but still give a great sound, I put a flo-pro on my festiva but have yet to drive it to hear it lol

[bravekozak]

I ran a Bosal on my 89. The polished stainless looked nice, but was a little too loud (straight through). I wish there was something baffled. I might have to make my own muffler and just weld a tip on it. The Fiat 500 mufflers on eBay are way too expensive for me!

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I have a 30" cherrybomb as a resinator in the center of mine with a "fart can" on the back. With the resinator in the center it lowers the tone drastically so its not sounding like an angry bee, if you put a high flow oval style on the back it should still be fairly quiet, but still have a good sound.

[Christ]

If you want to take the time to do it, you can make your own muffler with half fender washers.

Cut slices in a piece of pipe the thickness of the washers, cut them in half and slide one into each slot, then weld. (Or muffler tape, if you're me...)

Stagger them however you like, but you only need 3 or 4 washers (2 top, 2 bottom) to make a decent muffler, so long as your pipe isn't obnoxiously large.

[sketchman]

Had a generic glasspack cat tube up front and a magnaflow in back of a 2.0 once that sounded low and grunty but wasn't too loud and didn't drone at all.

I also once built a muffler that worked really well at canceling out higher frequencies. Nobody seems to make one like it, but it makes perfect sense to me and worked really well.

I'll see if I can get a drawing up of it. Very simple to make, though not as simple as the tube and washer idea.

[kellen302]

I plan on using an e-cutout probably before the cat. That way I can keep it sleeper and quiet in town with the fuzz that violates their own noise ordnances... But out on the back roads I can get my ricer on and open it up

[sketchman]

^ Get my ricer on.:lol:

[kellen302]

I'm a teenage boy driving a subcompact import, what else would I do?

[Damkid]

I'm a teenage boy driving a subcompact import, what else would I do?

Swap in a KL to get your ricer on :lol:

[villageidiot]

ive got a turbo muffler on, no resonator, and a magnaflow cat. its quiet, unless ya really get on it, then it has a nice tone

[DriverOne]

ive got a turbo muffler on, no resonator, and a magnaflow cat. its quiet, unless ya really get on it, then it has a nice tone

I recommend a 22" glasspack in the tunnel and a Thrush turbo muffler at the exit. Top it off with a nice exhaust tip.

You'll be quiet until you don't want to be. More of a humble mutter than anything, until you're in the top RPMs, and then you get a "hidden fury" kind of note.

[sketchman]

Here's what I built years ago. Very compact and flows freely, but it cuts out high frequencies from the exhaust so well, that on the 2.0 I had it on, you'd hear the engine up front over the exhaust the higher you revved it. But still rumbled at idle and cruise. Cheap too. I was out of a job when I built mine from galvanized fence post and a salvaged stainless steel toilet bowl holder. The rounded divider was a post cap.

[sketchman]

.....a salvaged stainless steel toilet bowl holder.

Hehe. That was a brush holder.