hey guys, I got a magnaflow 3.5 inch tip put on yesterday & it made my car a lot louder/raspier. I had a really ugly 4" baffled tip before but it sounded so much better but it looked sooo bad. I didn't know the noise will be this different, it went from nice muffled with minimum noise to rapsy honda civic like =/

The shop took my baffled tip, so now I guess I'm going to look for another tip any suggestion on quiet almost stock like tips?


now http://memimage.cardomain.net/member...5_428_full.jpg

http://matrix.senecac.on.ca/~dwkwok/exhaust2.avi <- sounds like a civic inside & outside the car

before
http://memimage.cardomain.net/member...5_429_full.jpg

http://matrix.senecac.on.ca/~dwkwok/exhaust1.avi <-- you can hardly hear this in the car & there is only a small hint of deep noise inside the car.


the difference is a lot more apparent in person, my camera's mic sucks

 

they look almost the same.. ha

yea i definitely like the old sound better.. much deeper.

i don't know what you did with b pipe but maybe you can get a resignated b pipe?

 

forgot to say I have a y-pipe & resonated bpipe already.

the old tip was hanging too far out & too low lol the new one is even with the bumper. I didn't know tips make such a huge difference!

 

Go back to the shop and say:

Yo Sucka... you didnt deduct the price of my old tip of the intall when you put the new one on so.... Go take my old tip off your car and give me it back BIIIIZZZNATCH!!!

 

Is it just a tip or the whole muffler?

 

same muffler, only the tip was changed (chopped off then new one welded on)

noise difference is huge

 

Oh, I have a tip on my stock muffler too, but I just bolted it onto the stock tip, no noise at all.

 

Wait so you're saying that the tip changed the exhaust sound that much??? WOW please verify if i understand correctly

 

yup, only the tip was changed & it made a huge difference

 

Did the shop take the muffler off to weld it? Maybe they didnt tighten the muffler enough and its leaking and making you think its the tip thats louder........or something

 

I'm also looking for another tip. I like how my car sounds without the tip but it looks so funny and it's a little too loud. I have a 3" tip. Does bigger mean quieter?