Need major help with glasspacks and resonators
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Need major help with glasspacks and resonators
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I need some major help with deciding on an exhaust setup. I know for sure I'm getting the headers from psituning.ca and I'm importing the muffler that PosterT makes for the MX-3. I do not want my exhaust to be ridiculously loud. And I don't want it to sound like a ricer car. I need to get something to help tone it down a little. By the way, the car is getting a KLZE swap, and I'm sticking with 2.5" piping all the way back. As far as catalytic converters and glass packs or resonators, what are your opinions? I just want a nice even low tone that's not really loud. I'm pretty positive that I'm getting a high flow Magnaflow cat, but was else do I need? Any opinions you guys have are wide open.
-Randy
I need some major help with deciding on an exhaust setup. I know for sure I'm getting the headers from psituning.ca and I'm importing the muffler that PosterT makes for the MX-3. I do not want my exhaust to be ridiculously loud. And I don't want it to sound like a ricer car. I need to get something to help tone it down a little. By the way, the car is getting a KLZE swap, and I'm sticking with 2.5" piping all the way back. As far as catalytic converters and glass packs or resonators, what are your opinions? I just want a nice even low tone that's not really loud. I'm pretty positive that I'm getting a high flow Magnaflow cat, but was else do I need? Any opinions you guys have are wide open.
-Randy
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Try this http://store.summitracing.com/default.a ... wordSearch i put one of these on mine and man did it help and make it sound sooooooo much better!
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Not sure, question is how in the heck is it going to fit. Here's a pic with the 4" diameter X 14" long plus 2.5" runners on each end. You'll notice that there's very little space left before piping has to bend around. The recessed cavity for the resonator is only so big. A 28" unit will have to be hung lower and will decrease vehicle clearance.Macen wrote:Will a 28" glasspack silence the sound more than a 4" Magnaflow resonator?
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I don't know who the hell installed yours, but I'd kick em in the nads. The cat is supposed to be closer to the engine that that. The further away it is, the harder it is to heat up, and the harder it is to pass emissions. Not only that, but they used clamps instead of welding it. Very cheap work.jschrauwen wrote:Not sure, question is how in the heck is it going to fit. Here's a pic with the 4" diameter X 14" long plus 2.5" runners on each end. You'll notice that there's very little space left before piping has to bend around. The recessed cavity for the resonator is only so big. A 28" unit will have to be hung lower and will decrease vehicle clearance.Macen wrote:Will a 28" glasspack silence the sound more than a 4" Magnaflow resonator?
I fit a 35" glasspack before that bend WITH a Magnaflow cat. All the bends were put in the proper place and everything hangs on stock hangers.
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My setup looks alot like johns, my cat bolted directly to the headers however but other than that its the same. sounds awsome too.
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I believe the cat almost where it should be. Can't really get it any closer because of the headers and collector/flex pipe. Clamps are temporary because the shop that installed the cat and resonator couldn't do the SS welding at the time. Resonator is still located in the oem designated location.
LF1, if your running headers, collector/flex pipe, is your cat closer to the engine. You should know by now that I don't cut corners. The hand made SS system wasn't 100% perfect but pretty close. I'll have to wait until I take the car out in the spring to get the clamps removed and SS welding done .... no biggy.
LF1, if your running headers, collector/flex pipe, is your cat closer to the engine. You should know by now that I don't cut corners. The hand made SS system wasn't 100% perfect but pretty close. I'll have to wait until I take the car out in the spring to get the clamps removed and SS welding done .... no biggy.
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