First e30 came and went...I'm hooked!

[metalsoul]

how did you tune the exhaust? haha sounds amazing!! so i guess drill holes? i had that mod on my old vert p.o did it lol.

HAHa, no, I do it the right way and gut the box and straight pipe it out, then tuning based on desired tone

[metalsoul]

Man, as much as I love riding topless in the vert I regret selling this car everyday! Maybe it was just because we had 2 cross country trips together and formed a MAn-CAr bond...time to take the vert on a road trip and break her in!

[91 318is]

Nice dude! Those are L's old wheels aren't they? Gotta admit, they look hot on the car!


Love the exhaust too, so your saying it's stock and you gutted the muffler and took out the resonator?

I'm confused, lol.

[metalsoul]

Yeah I bought them from Vlad but they were on Levents car.

As for tuning the exhaust, I gut the stock box (muffler) remove all the baffling from it and weld in straight pipes that I "tune" to the sound I want, i.e. deeped or lower depending on how I baffle the straight pipes I put in...I love the sounds I can get and it still appears to be totally stock when it's all done.

[kway]

time to take the vert on a road trip and break her in!

Do it. Back when I lived in CT, one of my rituals with any recently purchased ride was to run it up Rt 7 from my parent's place south of Lime Rock all the way up to Burlington, VT and back. Get familiar pretty quick that way.

[91 318is]

Yeah I bought them from Vlad but they were on Levents car.

As for tuning the exhaust, I gut the stock box (muffler) remove all the baffling from it and weld in straight pipes that I "tune" to the sound I want, i.e. deeped or lower depending on how I baffle the straight pipes I put in...I love the sounds I can get and it still appears to be totally stock when it's all done.

interesting.

So you put the straight pipe inside the muffler? How do you "tune" the pipes?

I'm curious to know.

[metalsoul]

If I told you that I'd have to, well, you know...!

I make some side money doing it for guys that want a cool tone to their exhaust without being ricey and without paying the price for a new system.

[91 318is]

If I told you that I'd have to, well, you know...!

I make some side money doing it for guys that want a cool tone to their exhaust without being ricey and without paying the price for a new system.

dammit! I need a new exhaust for the M42, but worried about what it would sound like. I'd like to pop for a supersprint, but I don't feel like waiting for months and don't have $530 to blow right now on exhaust.