well guys i'm finally spending some money on my car that i actually want to.
between my blown maf and new wheel hub and bearings this summer along with the tow's that came with my maf i ended up spending about $800 on my car that i really did not want to!!!!!
anyways i am finally going to be doing my exhaust.
i first wanted to lose the resonator, but i want to go more aggressive than that.
went to a local muffler shop, i am in a new town so i'm still learning the ropes. but i got a good estimate on what will sound good/ look good, and be priced right.
i am going to be eliminating my mufflers and doing new pipe from the axle back, so i am basically going to end up with straight pipes from the resonator back. likely getting some 4" tips, unless my stock ones can be re-used (sleeper status)
i'm dropping it off tomorrow at 8 am so hopefully by noon tomorrow it will be sounding good.
a full magnaflow set up from another shop back home quoted me $480 for deleting the resonator, getting 2 magnaflow uni's and two new tips, which was a little steep right before i had to buy my text books.
so hopefully this will leave me with a better sounding and breathing vq.
oh btw, the rl y-pipe is scheduled to be my christmas present, unless this new job i get pays me enough to go balls out on my car this winter
Sweet. Although I'm not entirely sure why you would blow money now when you plan on getting the Y-Pipe in a few months. I would wait. Thats just me.
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i have wanted an exhaust since i got the car april 08, and mufflers and the y-pipe are on the opposite ends of the exhaust, one is virtually the beginning and one is pretty much the ending lol.
i think the y-pipe will just add to what i do tomorrow
What you do tomorrow will be audibly pleasing and that is about it. I think too many folks on here get caught up in exhaust modifications which just adds more noise than anything else.
I really don't understand; people complain about spending $100-$300 on modifications that add 10WHP, but easily spend $300-$500 on an exhaust that they hardly ever run on a dyno.
I've been through a couple different setups and the exhaust doesn't really add much WHP on the dyno. You may get some power from a 3" exhaust, but you're probably going to have to add some more modifications and a tune to realize the true potential. Try taking a 9 hour or longer road trip under load and you'll end up with ringing ears from the nasty drone.
I have been lazy for a while and have a brand new stock exhaust (no mufflers) sitting under my bed with 4" angled cut double walled magnaflow tips to be put on. I keep saying I will do it every weekend and yes I will miss my current exhaust setup, as it sounds wonderful around town and when I hammer it, but around 60-70MPH it sounds AWFUL, my only recourse is to downshift to 3rd gear (5MT) and the sound disappears somewhat.
Looking back, if you're going for strictly power, just get the y-pipe and get an SSIM.
yeah i am really really not going for power; i got my intake and block plate, thats about all i want to do to the engine, yes i would love the spacers and the ported im, but i'm just driving to and from school, i dont have the time or energy to devote too much to this car.
i simply want it to sound better, just a little more beef to it. i expect no gains, but i had a magnaflow muffler on my truck before and i loved it.
just looking for something simple thats gonna make me happy
if i wanted power now i would get the y pipe now... i'm still holding off on that lol
hopefully your new exhaust makes you happy as well lol
I have a similar setup on my daily driver, and love how it sounds.. It had a large muffler and then a small resonator in the tailpipe. I had a shop weld up a pipe in place of the muffler for real cheap and it sounds great and isnt overly loud unless you rev it. This is on a 92 Buick Roadmaster with a Chevy 350 tho..
As for the Altima, I think what added all the noise is the lack of a resonator, because the car was still whisper quiet with the headers, but with the 3in exhaust and only dynomax mufflers, it is set-off-car-alarms LOUD.. Literally It sounds good at idle and at WOT, but everything in between is a little too raspy.
That stock 33in resonator should still block most of the noise/rasp, so hopefully it will sound good. So is the shop just welding pipe in place of the mufflers? I hope they arent making a new y and all that from the resonator back and ripping you off.
well i got it done this morning at 8am, so far so good, i'm really happy with the way it turned out, it sounds real nice, nice and mellow, no drone on the highway.
i ended up going with stainless 4" magnaflows and they look sweet.
You have a similar setup as mine (4" Magnaflow double-walled tips) except I don't have the stock resonator. You should get the SE-R bumper and finish it off (SE bumper IMO pales in comparison).
Looks nice! I might have to get some of those tips. They fill out the exhaust cutouts in the bumper nicely. I dont have any tips at the time being, just aluminum piping painted high-temp black (like the rest of my exhaust system). Do you set off any car alarms in that parking garage with it? Vibrations echo and set off alarms so easy. I know I set 'em off, sometimes even outside garages.
But like hacku said, more pics. From the underside too.
it sounds real nice, i havent pissed off anyone of my new neighbors too much yet! its loud but not obnoxiously so.
couple more pics for you guys. i took a crappy cell phone video but the quality is so terrible that i wont humor you guys with that.
anyways here are some more pics, i tried to show the piping as well as how flush the tips sit along the bumper... i really really would love the se-r bumper
The bumper does a good job of covering up the chunk of straight pipe
if you guys want any more pics, better pics... lol let me know, i totally spaced that i can use my girlfriends camera instead of my dare.
Last edited by hattrick3518 : 08-23-2009 at 04:36 PM.
looks good, but i agree those tips would look much better on an ser rear. i know after seeing that new guys car (red with eracings front and ser rear, name escapes me) i plan on doing an ser rear bumper and then my exhaust afterwards.
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