well, input welcomed as long as its not "Get Cattman/Frankencar/Ebay cat-back". My current set-up: Megan Racing OS-R cat-back. stock everything else. 2003 Maxima.

Been thinking about going back to stock for a while because I was starting to get a little bit annoyed with the slight drone at 55-70 mph and city driving from 2100 rpm - 2500 rpm. But stock sound is not imprssive at all so I've been thinking of several ideas and can't figure out. Now I know the maxima will not get the "350z or G35c sound" but here is the sound I'm looking for: something more aggressive than stock, but something that will not be quite as loud as a full cat back, something that'd in the middle.

One of the options I even considered was stuffing steel wool in my muffler, but something about the idea of shooting hot burning metal flakes from the wool out of muffler and setting forrest fires as i drive down the highway made me reconsider it. smokey the bear would frown down on that.


So here are my options and I want to know what people think of each one or if they have any recommendations.

Option A: Megan B-pipe, stock muffler

Option B: Stock B-pipe, Megan Muffler

And I don't know how and where you'd fit it, but could I just add a resonator somewhere to quiet down the exhaust, or is a B-pipe pretty much a resonator?

Would a stock muffler/megan b-pipe and visa versa even bolt up?

Thanks for the help in advance.

 

Option A, yes it will bolt up. That's what I'm running right now, HKS also droned too much.

 

Do you mean you have the OE-RS exhaust from megan racing. It looks like the b-pipe already has a resonator on it. You could have an exhaust shop put on a larger resonator. That may or may not help though.

 

I tried to see if they had any of these in 2" (IIRC the megan has 2 2" tips right?) But no luck. I still thought it was worth mentioning them though, as I had a customer who had a baby recently and the drone from his OBX on his 4th gen was to much for the little one, we tacked one into the [retarded] 4" tip and he was very very pleased with the results.

 

Megan B-pipe welded to the stock axle back should do the trick

 

The megan one is 2x 3" tip looking at the specs.

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how does that sound compared to stock.

 

Get a Cattman or Frankencar....

 

saw that coming

bump, any more opinions?

 

Aftermarket B-pipe with stock rear. Honestly, as long as you don't put a test pipe with the stock rear, it will sound deep. The reason the stock rear isn't "impressive" is because the factory b-pipe elimates ALL sounds, literally. Switching that out will do the trick.

 

Hate to bring up an old thread but what did you end up doing? Just got the megan catback for my wife's car and let's just say she not to pleased. Need to quite it down a bit. Anyone ever try the steel wool trick? Sounds like a rig job but if it works I would consider it. Thanks.

 

The Oem Bpipe may quiet things down but the real silencer is the factory muffler which flows good but if you want more flow find an AE 2001 or Infiniti I30/I35 rear muffler they made an extra 5 flywheel hp.....I've used the Oem rear muffler with My Cattman Headers & 2.5" B-pipe and it was just as quiet as stock with a little header gurgle......But the true silencer in the rear muffler so use it! I've stated B4 how loud the Megan Catback setup is compared to the Cattman....It's really loud!!!!!!! The reason is that little bitty 14" straight thru rear muffler!!!!!

 

You can always trade the Megan for my stock one

PM me if you wanna sell the Megan or interested in a trade lol