exhaust loudness...

[wakebum2507]

ok so right now i have a firebird with pretty much straight pipes. its basically a TSP rumbler with no muffler in the middle. its loud...reallllly loud. so im looking into taking it down a notch or two. im looking at puttin a muffler in the I pipe, and im not sure which one. im looking at the hooker aero chamber muffler, hooker max flow, and any flowmaster that would fit in that I pipe. or maybe a dynomax straight thru, but i figured that it would still be loud if i did that. does anyone have any suggestions on this?

[Smoke Panther]

Re: exhaust loudness...

with the TSP setup, you're basically limited to bullet style mufflers, which, just by their very nature, are not going to be very effective in reducing the volume

[badinfluenceRS]

Re: exhaust loudness...

you could setup a muffler after the axle (ie flowmaster 80 series)

[wakebum2507]

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i was thinking about doing an after-axle, but i dont really like the sound of any of those mufflers. maybe just a small muffler in the I pipe, or a moroso sprial flow to soften the pitch and get some of that "bite" out of it? im just looking basically to get some of the loudness out, because i really like the exhaust note alot

[Predator Bird]

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i'd probably throw in a chambered muffler, like a sweet thunder in there. i think loser did it to his car and it's something i use to consider doing awhile back.

[SilverRS96]

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after the axle is limited...u have to put a muffler on each tail pipe since u got the pipe goin into a "Y"...teal99camaro had done this to his rumbler...i have it now but im takin the mufflers off cuz i dont want em there

[loser]

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i'd probably throw in a chambered muffler, like a sweet thunder in there. i think loser did it to his car and it's something i use to consider doing awhile back.

definatly give sweet-thunder's a look. my car is still loud, i cant talk on a phone behind it at idle, but inside i can easly (unless i go wot) i went with the sweet-thunder becuase its 2.5" inside (to keep my low end power) but its a straight though desgin so it still flows good. http://www.sweet-thunder.com/chambered_general.html

do you have a highflow cat? headers? how much are you looking to spend? how's your low-end power? dynomax bullets can be had for around $50

i can still be quite with my car, but im a M5 so that helps. personally i love the tone and its not annoyingly loud. i have a picture comparing the sweet thunder to the dynomax bullet that came with my rumbler.

[wakebum2507]

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ive got aftermarket headers, and a high flow cat. its loud. ill def take a look at the chambered one. thanks so much guys

[iGoRa]

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I just did install on mine. TSP definitely has a nice note but waaay to loud. What I did, I bought cheap muffler and have it installed in the place where stock muffler was. It brings loundness/2 but if you want to have it really quiet (like for a long trip) you can install resistor into the pass tail pipe , like borla does.

[Slv97rRs]

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I have the Loudmouth 2 and i had it installed after the axle and i jus hid the tail pipes so you can see it and also there is no cat and its not very loud at all i have no problem talking on the phone behind the car or anything the only time it is a little loud is driving down the interstate it resionates inside the car