eBay "Axle Back" Stainless Muffler Installed! Pics & video!
eBay "Axle Back" Stainless Muffler Installed! Pics & video!
Well, let me start of by saying, "It's cheap stainless", "There were fitment issues", "You get what you pay for!", "It's got square exhuast tips".
Total price shipped was $115.
Build quality is actually quite good for a overseas mass-produced acle-back muffler. I had some issues with the tips not lined up, then the muffler was hitting the undercarriage, then I noticed the right tip was banging against the bumper cut-out. So after some "man-handling" and force bending the pipe and the hangers, I got it all to line up perfectly with the OEM cut-out and it does not hit any of the undercarriage. Took some time, but I sort of expected this due to the price I paid.
On to the pictures
(I apologize for the glare. It is either due to a 3 yr olds finger or a 6 yr olds finger smearing the lens).
Total price shipped was $115.
Build quality is actually quite good for a overseas mass-produced acle-back muffler. I had some issues with the tips not lined up, then the muffler was hitting the undercarriage, then I noticed the right tip was banging against the bumper cut-out. So after some "man-handling" and force bending the pipe and the hangers, I got it all to line up perfectly with the OEM cut-out and it does not hit any of the undercarriage. Took some time, but I sort of expected this due to the price I paid.
On to the pictures
(I apologize for the glare. It is either due to a 3 yr olds finger or a 6 yr olds finger smearing the lens).
VIDEO IS NOW AVAILABLE IN ORIGINAL POSTING (Posting #2)
The tips aren't exactly perfect. Like I said, I had to "man-handle" the entire set-up to get it to where you see it now.
My plan is to cleanly cut off the square tips and have my stainless round angled tips welded in place of them.
As for the GLE tails...
...SE Altezza's are
and I actually prefer a sedate look. I do not even like the 5th gen SE lights because they are not actually black, but rather a brown. Personal taste. Let's leave it at that.
You can hear how it sounds in POst #2. Deepr and throatier than stock. But nice and quiet.
even at WOT 
Originally Posted by nk2k2
looks like a good fit. is it just me or do the tips look off center a little bit. yeah i have to agree, the gle tails dont look so hott on a black maxima. hows it sound?
My plan is to cleanly cut off the square tips and have my stainless round angled tips welded in place of them.
As for the GLE tails...
...SE Altezza's are
and I actually prefer a sedate look. I do not even like the 5th gen SE lights because they are not actually black, but rather a brown. Personal taste. Let's leave it at that.You can hear how it sounds in POst #2. Deepr and throatier than stock. But nice and quiet.
even at WOT
Oh and I'll add that the gasket is a piece of **** as expected. You can see water leaking from the flange in the video. That will soon be taken care of with a nicer fitting quality gasket.
Originally Posted by maxspeed96CT
WOuld have been a much better choise for another 300$
I actually started the Megan thread because I was going to purchase it, but since my b-pipe is still in good condition (crossing fingers) and I wasnt awanting to spend the extra $$$ I went with this.
Originally Posted by STILLENGLE
i dont know why people buy performance parts off ebay anyway.
Aside from the ugly tips and fitament issues, looks like he got a decent deal on this ebay muffler and now he has a couple hundred bucks leftover for something that WILL improve performance (maybe a set of springs, a sway bar, a y-pipe?)
Originally Posted by kramarz99
because they cheap?
I've bought several "performance parts" off ebay....Try to tell me I'm "cheap."
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From: Waterford, MI
sounds alright. . .I reiterate that I'd prefer getting the sound from the front part of the exhaust(y-pipe, headers) than the back precisely because of what irish mentions. I don't see the point in show without go, well, save for " ICE " 
Originally Posted by Maxim(a)SerjVQ
sounds alright. . .I reiterate that I'd prefer getting the sound from the front part of the exhaust(y-pipe, headers) than the back precisely because of what irish mentions. I don't see the point in show without go, well, save for " ICE "
Then again, it replaced my OEM muffler that literally rusted off. Stainless >stock
Ok guys.
My OEM muffler rusted off at the flange, so I replaced it with this cheap alternative and wanted a lil' nicer sound. Achieved!
I already have round angled stainless tips sitting in my garage that I had installed on my OEM muffler before it rusted away. Those will eventually make there way onto this muffler.
I already have springs (Maxspeed w/Tokico HP's)
kramarz99, I knew what you meant. eBay items are cheaper than buying retail, etc.
My OEM muffler rusted off at the flange, so I replaced it with this cheap alternative and wanted a lil' nicer sound. Achieved!
I already have round angled stainless tips sitting in my garage that I had installed on my OEM muffler before it rusted away. Those will eventually make there way onto this muffler.
I already have springs (Maxspeed w/Tokico HP's)
kramarz99, I knew what you meant. eBay items are cheaper than buying retail, etc.
Would you mind measuring the muffler and giving me the dimensions? Does it appear to be mandrel bent? I'm sure it is. I'm looking to make a mandrel bent rear section with a magnaflow muffler and the nearest shop with a mandrel bender is 5+ hours away so I'm either going to buy the pre mandrel bent tubing online and have a local shop weld or get something like this and swap out the cheaper muffler for the magnaflow given the dimensions will work. Has anyone done this before?
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From: Waterford, MI
Originally Posted by irish44j
you're just mad you don't have a sexy-looking frankencar rear section looking all pretty below your bumper
Then again, it replaced my OEM muffler that literally rusted off. Stainless >stock
Then again, it replaced my OEM muffler that literally rusted off. Stainless >stock
i dunno, they're both pretty sexy.
Of course, i bought my frankencar off of Puppetmaster, who put on a cattman. And then he bought another frankencar and sold the cattman
both sexy though
though FC has the money tips:
Of course, i bought my frankencar off of Puppetmaster, who put on a cattman. And then he bought another frankencar and sold the cattman
both sexy though
though FC has the money tips:
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Joined: Sep 2005
Posts: 1,113
From: NY
Originally Posted by irish44j
Um....your mod list please if you're going to call someone else "cheap."
I've bought several "performance parts" off ebay....Try to tell me I'm "cheap."
I've bought several "performance parts" off ebay....Try to tell me I'm "cheap."
Who needs ebay when we got home depot