So I FINALLY got around to changing my POS exhaust. Bought the car already swapped knowing the exhaust needed work but not as much as I thought.
It previously was 2.5" w/ resonator and magnaflow (no cat) and sounded like a pissed off bumblebee at higher revs. Well once the shop got to working on it found out some interesting things. The resonator was 2" not 2.5" and the muffler was 2.25". Also hung down way low and was dented in where it hit the body when someone scraped it real bad.
So rather than mess with that mess I just decided to completely redo it (was just going to get a cat put on flanges along with a Borla XR-1). I ended up going with high-flow cat => resonator => Borla XR-1 with all 2.5" piping. Sounds great! Very quiet and it gets a tad louder with a nice deep tone in the upper rev range. Ran about $650 with me supplying the muffler. I will get pics/sound up soon but I am too busy right now to jack it up.
Hopefully this helps with some of you trying to sort out your exhaust. I've read many threads where people complain about it being too loud and raspy.
Edit: Here is a clip from inside w/ windows down.
http://tinypic.com/player.php?v=funvhi&s=3
It previously was 2.5" w/ resonator and magnaflow (no cat) and sounded like a pissed off bumblebee at higher revs. Well once the shop got to working on it found out some interesting things. The resonator was 2" not 2.5" and the muffler was 2.25". Also hung down way low and was dented in where it hit the body when someone scraped it real bad.
So rather than mess with that mess I just decided to completely redo it (was just going to get a cat put on flanges along with a Borla XR-1). I ended up going with high-flow cat => resonator => Borla XR-1 with all 2.5" piping. Sounds great! Very quiet and it gets a tad louder with a nice deep tone in the upper rev range. Ran about $650 with me supplying the muffler. I will get pics/sound up soon but I am too busy right now to jack it up.
Hopefully this helps with some of you trying to sort out your exhaust. I've read many threads where people complain about it being too loud and raspy.
Edit: Here is a clip from inside w/ windows down.
http://tinypic.com/player.php?v=funvhi&s=3
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