Eta-to-M50: Build thread

[DTM190]

I hope you can all have a laugh and get that this is meant in good humor,









When I saw that exhaust the first thing that popped into my head was,













ITS LIKE YOSHI MEETS JOSHI

[nando]

borla :p

[shiboujin]

A block away, I can handle. You could hear my Magnaflow with stock cats on my M20 before about that far.

I should have qualified that. "From inside my house". I can tell when he gets home or leaves for somewhere.

[Aptyp]

drove my car today for the first time with m50 :-)

I have a Magnaflow 1x2.5"in, 2x2" out and an e30 Remus catback. It's not obnoxiously loud, but I would like to silence it just a little bit more. I have a 328" muffler, that I may try.

[Jean]

Oh wow, LOL...where did you find the first guy?! I bet you wish you just went to a good shop the first time.

I have a magnaflow ca specific cat dual 2" in and dual 2" out, then a 2 into 1 Y, a single 2.5" from Y to the magnaflow muffler... and it's pretty damn loud. But I do have an extra liter of displacement that might have a little to do with it as well.

Get the biggest muffler on there you can if you want it to be stealthy w/o a silencer before muffler.

[Jand3rson]

On the roomies M50, we have 1 magnaflow and 1 borla IIRC. Cats too. I can hear him coming down the block. This is why I hate exhaust work. I can never make quiet enough exhaust.

A block away, I can handle. You could hear my Magnaflow with stock cats on my M20 before about that far.

[shiboujin]

Even with the first Magnaflow in place of the cats up front?

On the roomies M50, we have 1 magnaflow and 1 borla IIRC. Cats too. I can hear him coming down the block. This is why I hate exhaust work. I can never make quiet enough exhaust.

that's horrible, reminds when I drove to midas with open headers to get my headers connected to my cat, they had the exhaust sitting crooked rubbing the valance didnt hook the 02 sensor up and had leaks at every weld. I took it to another midas the next day and they fixed it for free.

from then on I do all exhaust work my self, its pretty easy and a welder paid its self off in a month with all the trouble it saved me.

You went to midas. What did you expect? Some guy with 5 min of gasless mig welding under his belt got rushed to do the job as quickly as possible. And you didn't get quality work? Nooooooo

[Jand3rson]

Who knows. Just ordered a new 02 sensor, now I'm just trying to figure out what muffler I need to get. Car goes in on the 11th to have a whole new system built.

[Mike The Bavarian]

dude that blows..it seems to me as if the car was on jackstands when he was doing your exhaust, if so- then yeah that sucks, and it makes things alot harder..but no way in hell should that exhaust have come out that bad

he was also welding too hot. basically this guy had no clue what he was doing.

[LJ851]

WOW. That is failure on so many levels. Is he on the drugs? Best of luck at the next shop.

[kamotors]

that's horrible, reminds when I drove to midas with open headers to get my headers connected to my cat, they had the exhaust sitting crooked rubbing the valance didnt hook the 02 sensor up and had leaks at every weld. I took it to another midas the next day and they fixed it for free.

from then on I do all exhaust work my self, its pretty easy and a welder paid its self off in a month with all the trouble it saved me.

[Jand3rson]

I'd give my opinion but it's nothing but negative.

That muffler is about the same one I use but it was single in and single out. You'll wind up needing 2 mufflers as it doesn't do much to quiet things down. Most cheap aftermarket mufflers require 2 in my experience.

Even with the first Magnaflow in place of the cats up front?

[shiboujin]

I'd give my opinion but it's nothing but negative.

That muffler is about the same one I use but it was single in and single out. You'll wind up needing 2 mufflers as it doesn't do much to quiet things down. Most cheap aftermarket mufflers require 2 in my experience.

[Jand3rson]

Ok, so I know this has been gone over a million times in other threads, but I want recommendations on a good, inexpensive single in/dual out muffler. I'd like to stick with Magnaflow, has anyone had any experience with this model?

http://www.summitracing.com/parts/MPE-13288/

It's only $61, and combined with the Magnaflow I'll have in place of the cats, I don't think it will be too loud, but I find conflicting information on the noise level. Single 3" in/dual 2.5" out is pretty much exactly what I'm looking for. All of their mufflers look the same, but there's a dozens of them in the single 3" in/dual out configuration, varying in price from $60 to $150, and I don't know what the difference in them is.

[Mlarsen]

You will, next year. I'm actually glad it wasn't there, because everything was totally rushed and not how I wanted it, not just the exhaust. Next year, it will be perfect.

Right on, Well I hope you get everything sorted out.