I currently have a y-pipe, carsound cat, and a apexi WS. How different would my exhaust note be if I got a smaller tip, 2.5"-3"? The WS comes with a tip almost 4". I want to know whether the exhaust will wuiet down or sound more like a 4cyl car. A guy living a few doors from me has a 2k2 with just a 3" tip on the car and it sounds like a civic, no lie. It's a bit loud and getting a 2k+ muffler seems a bit hard, either too expensive or no sellers...

 

Cars don't flow enough exhaust to even come close to pressurizing a 3" tip. Changing the tip has no effect on sound, only changing your muffler out will have any effect. Why not go back to your stock exhaust and weld a bigger tip on it?

 

I don't have any parts from my stock exhaust. The only reason I have all the exhaust mods I do is because my stock exhaust was rusted through, muffler broke of from the b-pipe, y-pipe flex busted, cat stinking like eggs tossed into a pile of horse dung. Don't say a tip will not change the sound cause I know it's a it's not true, I did mention the 2k2. I'm only worried that the sound will resemble that of a 4cyl car with a catback...

 

Take a 2k2 muffler, take a screwdriver, poke some holes in it, and it'll sound like a civic of course. I'm just telling you that you're wasting your time with changing the tip, that's all. But if you don't believe me, go ahead. Nobody said you had to take my advice.

The tip has no influence on sound, the design of the muffler (glasspack, baffles, straight through) have EVERYTHING to do with the sound. Also the resonant frequencies of the individual chambers that break up standing waves in the mufflers is what quiets them down. Changing the size of the tip does nothing for breaking up standing waves.

And if you really don't believe me after that, read it all for yourself here:
http://auto.howstuffworks.com/muffler.htm

 

Thanks for the reply, I appreciate it. If a tip has nothing to do with the way a car sounds than why does the sound change when a tip is removed or a bigger one is put on? I guess you're right though and I'll just wait for a 2k+ to show up...