New Flowtech muffler!

[turbohead2332]

Well, I've been looking to replace my stock muffler for some time now with an aftermarket brand of some sort. Being strapped for cash, I voted against a catback and went with a muffler that is sold at NAPA Auto Parts in the performance catalog. It is a Flowtech Raptor Turbo Performance Muffler. I payed around 30 bucks for it. After fighting with a bolt on the clamp that holds the muffler on for nearly an hour, I finally got it on! It sounds great! I'll post up video soon! It has a deep resonating bass sound at idle and is pretty loud! I'll put it like this on how loud it is: If I have my driver side window down and I'm accelerating, it's difficult to have a conversation with the passenger without yelling. Here's a link to the muffler.http://www.holley.com/types/Raptor.asp
I went with the 2 1/4 inch inlet/outlet, which is the size I needed for my stock 93 exhaust system. Also, right now, I just have the muffler on, no tip or anything coming out the other side of it. Will everything be ok running it like that for the time being?

[turbohead2332]

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D'oh! When I put the new muffler on the other day, I used the band clamp from the stock muffler. I thought I had tightened it down all the way! WRONG! The muffler ended up flying off the car while I was going down a somewhat busy road at around 55 mph. It almost hit another car! I then had no muffler whatsoever! I had to turn around at the next light, which seemed to last forever. When I got back near it, I saw that it had landed right at the corner of an intersection, just inches from traffic. I parked the car at the nearest store, ran over to where it was at, thought about how it would be hot, ran back and grabbed a T-shirt. Right as I turned around, a truck missed it by about 8 inches. O_O I ran over, grabbed the muffler, wrapped it in a t-shirt and a pair of jeans and put it in the back of my car. It was a little dinged and beat up, but otherwise ok. I then had to drive for 10 more minutes to get to where I needed to be. I was luckily not pulled over. I went to Auto Zone where I bought a 2 1/4 inch muffler clamp. It's not going anywhere now!

[turbohead2332]

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Ok. Here's the vid. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KThDZ4HJd9Y
I'm going to post one more of me driving it. It sounds better in gear! I'll have to get around to that tomorrow or later, though.

[JumpInTheFire.com]

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nice
is that catless?

[youngsc]

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Sounds alright. I've been trying to come up with a cheap alternative for just a muffler myself.

[Shirl]

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D'oh! When I put the new muffler on the other day, I used the band clamp from the stock muffler. I thought I had tightened it down all the way! WRONG! The muffler ended up flying off the car while I was going down a somewhat busy road at around 55 mph. It almost hit another car! I then had no muffler whatsoever! I had to turn around at the next light, which seemed to last forever. When I got back near it, I saw that it had landed right at the corner of an intersection, just inches from traffic. I parked the car at the nearest store, ran over to where it was at, thought about how it would be hot, ran back and grabbed a T-shirt. Right as I turned around, a truck missed it by about 8 inches. O_O I ran over, grabbed the muffler, wrapped it in a t-shirt and a pair of jeans and put it in the back of my car. It was a little dinged and beat up, but otherwise ok. I then had to drive for 10 more minutes to get to where I needed to be. I was luckily not pulled over. I went to Auto Zone where I bought a 2 1/4 inch muffler clamp. It's not going anywhere now!

PLEASE have a MUFFLER shop weld it on before it ends up through someone's windshield!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[turbohead2332]

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nice
is that catless?

Nope. It's just a Flowtech muffler on a stock 3.4 exhaust system. Oh, and I used a muffler clamp instead of the band clamp that came with the stock muffler originally! It's not going ANYWHERE now! It's really tightened on there.

[turbohead2332]

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Here's the link to the second vid. This one has me driving it. :D

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zbKOV9LeqjA

[squisher]

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Just goes to show, the 60* v6's just sound better than 90s :p (Even though I've got a 90* in my 'maro)

Sounds kinda like my Fiero:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJwwqM9ds20

(2.8 v6, Headers, !cat, Ocelot 1 in 2 out muffler)

[turbohead2332]

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Nice! I like it. :D

[kunas]

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i thought it sounded kinda ricey @ WOT.

[Shirl]

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Just goes to show, the 60* v6's just sound better than 90s :p (Even though I've got a 90* in my 'maro)

Sounds kinda like my Fiero:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJwwqM9ds20

(2.8 v6, Headers, !cat, Ocelot 1 in 2 out muffler)

Yeah, the 3.4's sound real good. But if you put a full exhaust on a 3.8, they sound sweet too.

[turbohead2332]

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i thought it sounded kinda ricey @ WOT.

Which one? his or mine?

[Blizzard242]

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Yeah... why does it sound kinda eww to me too? For the price though, I suppose thats good. Hey you know what else would be nice and cheap? replace the cat with a straight pipe! :banana: hey at least it sounds good with mine. I'll have to get a vid of it like everyone else I suppose.

[turbohead2332]

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Won't that make it hella louder?