Just called muffler shop couple blocks from my house.
They said they will make full SS mendrel bent 2.5" cat back for 280$ with labor and magnaflow muffler. Tax included!! What do you think?

 

If you want performance, don't get it. If you want sound .. get it ... IMO, any aftermarket cat-back on a Maxima sounds ricey... but that's just IMO ..

I would save my $280, get a y-pipe if I didn't already have one ... or a 00VI ...

It's a good price for the material they're using and mandrel bent but not wroth it, you could get a non mandrel bent Aluminized one for less and still have the same sound/performance ......... with tax

 

have y pipe already, and test pipe. but any way i have to get somethink, because my stock pipes and muffler going to "die"

 

Well if you need it get it ...

It will be loud and annoying if they don't use a resonator... I had a magnaflow, and it soudned w/ no resonator.

 

agreed. I heard a few magnaflow muffler sound clips.... RICE.

 

The greddy sp2 and apexi WS catbacks are almost as quiet as stock.


Nmex is right; throw a resonator on it.

 

Hold on, what shop in Chicago does mandrel bending? I strongly suggest that you stay away from Magnaflow without a resonator.

 

i've got headers and y pipe 2.5 inch ss mendrel bent piping high flow cat no resonator and a megan racing muffler and it sounds very very nice nothing ricey and not too loud. louder than stock but nothing like a rx-7 drag car

i spent about 585 installed for everything

 

headers are the advantage. they sound sooooo nice.........

 

That's all a matter of opinion ... zad1

 

have you heard ceasar's max with the cattman header-back exhaust?

 

NmexMax

 

I forgot about The Chariots set-up... ..

Strange b/c on my 03, I have headers, nothing more, and it sounds next to stock .. very weird.

 

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and then what

 

Anyway, point of this thread is not the way headers sound, but better yet if that's a good price for that set-up.

Yes it is, but get a resonator with it ...

 

thank you!!!

 

yo cop that **** i have the same thing but mine is aluminized it sounds phat but make sure u have y pipe cuz it dont add much performance

 

If magnaflow sounds so rice whats a good brand? Something with a deep tone but not loud as fug.

 

In my area i have found a shop that does a cat-back for 225...not sure on what exhuast they use, but it is resonated

 

will it give me nice sound?? i dont wanna be like civic driver

 

It only sounds ricey with those unequal-length cheap-O Y-pipes that people rave about

 

I had a Stillen "equal length" before my WSP ... and in all honesty, it did sound better

 

hold on a second.. which shop in chicago does mandrel bending? Dave hector and I have been looking, havnt found ONE, if you have let us know man

 

I think that question has already been asked .. but not answered ...

 

The best setup would be a 2.5" b-pipe and then stock muffler IMHO. I've yet to hear a good aftermarket muffler for the Max in person. Greddy SP1 is too loud, dynomax too loud and other random junk - too loud.

 

I spoke to DaveSz. He knows that shop which i called. And Dave said that they were talking BS to me. They dont make mendrel bent pipes

 

I doubt they do the bending there. They probably just have different SS mandrel bends and can piece anything you need together. You would need 4 different bends to do a catback for a 4th gen. $225 seems kinda on the cheap for that.

 

I'm gonna call bull**** on this so fast it's not even funny. You have headers, great, that doesn't really matter if you have no resonator and a rice can like Megan.

He's talking about Dino's Muffler. I've dealt with them hundreds of times and they are great people. I DOUBT he told you they do mandrel bends though. I've asked them before and everytime they say that mandrel bending is available anywhere around here. Plus they have a crapload of crush bent tubing on the walls of the shop, none is mandrel.

 

A buddy of mine that has a 3" exhaust, no cat or resonator with a Magnaflow on his G20, its loud but sounds very good. He aslo has a SR20DET so thats where the nice sound come from. On Maximas, no aftermarket muffler really sounds good to me. The only exhaust that I thought sounded nice was Ceasar's. I have heard a lot of good things about Dynomax Super Turbo mufflers but I have yet to hear on in person or on a video.