ColoMax96

Hey guys, I'm a newbie as you may have guessed. I bought a 96 max this last december and love the car. I just installed a y-pipe, hi-flow cat and 2.5" catback exhaust with a magnaflow muffler. I had the catback installed first, and it sounded very good just a nice deep tone to it. I then installed the y-pipe and cat. It sounded pretty good at idle, a little louder but good. The only problem i have is when i get on it. It sounds like a huge can of ****ed off bees from about 3000 rpms until it shifts. Now, to make that sound go away what should i do? I was thinking that the sound came from my 4.5" tip (N1 style muffler). I was thinking that i could put a resonator in the catback pipe since it doesn't have one, or maybe replace the muffler with a flowmaster or something. Any tips would be appreciated.



Jeremiah Van Norden
'96 deep evergreen
Longmont, Colorado

happyricefob

iTrader: (7)

could be a lot of stuff:

1. check for leackage between each exhaust components
2. get header/exhaust wrap and wrap around the y-pipe, specifically at the flex section
3. adding a custom resonator on the b-pipe may help
4. my warpspeed y-pipe w/ magnaflow muffler has similar problem above 3,000rpm. but i dont' mind, cuz i drive below 3,000rpm 98% of the time, which is nice and deap. on the dyno, the y-pipe WHP/WTQ gain doesn't kick in until 3,500rpm. basically below 3,500rpm with an aftermarket y-pipe is no different than a stock maxima performance.

Jepht20

iTrader: (10)

resonator resonator resonator. i want another one because i can't stand the noise. if it's still bad, get a different muffler.

i just noticed the other day i have a nice exhaust leak at my cat...bah

wunfstmax

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colo96max...have you ran a 1/4...if so what was ur time?

ColoMax96

No, I haven't run the quarter yet. I wanna take my car to bandimere sometime this spring. My latest and greatest kill was a dodge stealth non-turbo, but i can still be proud about that. My car is auto by the way.

Torgus

iTrader: (10)

i have a similar exhaust. wrap your y pipe and add a resonator.

Nealoc187

iTrader: (23)

It's the N1 style muffler. Resonator will help, but it won't get rid of the sound. You've got to go with a different muffler style if you want to significantly change the sound of your exhaust.

happyricefob

iTrader: (7)

N1 style muffler itself sounded nice and deep on my friend's civic dx

but on the maxima..it's a different story. PM 1fstmax to confirm this.

wunfstmax

iTrader: (7)

oh coo...im down in co spgs...i run down at pmi...i ran a stealth once..beat it...let me know what you run...my times a akward to say the least

maxspeed96CT

iTrader: (9)

resonator like said above, I have a maganflow resonatorand a dual 2"tip muffler and my exhaust just sounds deep , slighly ricy cause it pops at about 6k, owel supras do it to