Eta-to-M50: Build thread

[shiboujin]

You're such a woman... "should I wear the 6 inch heels or the 8 inch heels? I want to look like an expensive hooker and not a cheap hooker. But I still wanna get laid tonight"

Those stock resonators don't do much. I remove them from E36s all the time. Shit, removing the muffler from an E46 doesn't do much either. Just be happy and drive the damn thing.

[LJ851]

^ Yes. Janderson, your car has been a project for too long. It is time to get inside and drive the motherfucker! 100 pages!! If you're going post a video lets see a little sideways action or something.

[shiboujin]

I think being sideways is beneath him.

[Jand3rson]

Don't worry, I just took it out and gave it a pretty damn good flogging. It sounds good, it's just loud. I think I actually like it...

[shiboujin]

you can look into resonator inserts into your muffler. They look like long funnels that you bolt into your exhaust tips. I forget the technical name...

[Jand3rson]

I've got obd2 manifolds -> custom midpipe with a 12" resonator in each pipe -> ebay stainless m20 catback

absolutely zero rasp. it is fairly quiet, though, only a bit louder than stock. I dig it.

I'm actually considering pulling the ebay headers out this winter and going with the OBDII manifolds.

I'm not a fan of them, I just wanted something other than the stock M50 boat anchors, and I got them for dirt cheap.

[Mike The Bavarian]

I'm actually considering pulling the ebay headers out this winter and going with the OBDII manifolds.

I'm not a fan of them, I just wanted something other than the stock M50 boat anchors, and I got them for dirt cheap.

the headers don't cause that much rasp...people just seem to think running no cat gives them more hp. a cat gets rid of alot of rasp. and running a good muffler or two helps.

[shiboujin]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nBobmn_u98w

[DTM190]

What the fuck!

[shiboujin]

What the fuck!

Cutting onions?

[Jand3rson]

the headers don't cause that much rasp...people just seem to think running no cat gives them more hp. a cat gets rid of alot of rasp. and running a good muffler or two helps.

Yeah, I didn't delete the cats or anything, I just didn't have one. I had one with my old eta's exhaust system, this car got a whole new system.

This is really starting to frustrate me, I don't get why there isn't just a fix for this. I don't mind the sound, I just don't want it to be as loud as it is. And some of you are saying "just drive it, be happy", but I really don't like it being this loud, I feel like my car sounds like just another shitbox Honda with a stupidly loud exhaust so everyone will look at them.

[Jean]

Have you made a video to show how loud it currently is?

[Jand3rson]

Not yet. And most of my friends all say it sounds really good, but it's SO LOUD in the car. I myself haven't heard it outside the car yet. All I can hear is how loud it is in the car, and that's how I think it sounds outside.

[Mike The Bavarian]

Yeah, I didn't delete the cats or anything, I just didn't have one. I had one with my old eta's exhaust system, this car got a whole new system.

This is really starting to frustrate me, I don't get why there isn't just a fix for this. I don't mind the sound, I just don't want it to be as loud as it is. And some of you are saying "just drive it, be happy", but I really don't like it being this loud, I feel like my car sounds like just another shitbox Honda with a stupidly loud exhaust so everyone will look at them.

aren't you running two mufflers?

[Jand3rson]

aren't you running two mufflers?

YES.

I'm sorry, but I have said that so many times already. The first muffler in place of the cats is a small Magnaflow dual in/dual out. But it seems to be completely useless. I think I'm just going to have to put a cat back in it.