FAQ: The Exhaust Thread

robotennis61 wrote:

i like the idea of putting a cherry bomb in place of the resonator followed by hookers in place of the stock mufflers. I've heard this setup works good. anybody out there who can confirm this?

On that whole setup, I don't know but I can tell you I noticed a minimal change with adding a 4"x18" body 3" glasspack so I guess don't expect that glasspack to do much. Of course the smaller the pipe / bigger the body (especially longer), the more the glasspack can attenuate. Keeping the system 2.5" would probably make that a good setup. 3" might be slightly on the loud side, with that kind of mufflers - that I can tell you.

It does seem that a big turbo makes a 3800 sound like an Infiniti V6.

a nice sounding stock exhaust setup for a v-6 that i heard is the hyundai santa fe. it sounds really good! i want one just like that

robotennis61 wrote:

a nice sounding stock exhaust setup for a v-6 that i heard is the hyundai santa fe. it sounds really good! i want one just like that

1st step is removing your 90* V6

i hear ya my man i hear ya. but honestly the hyundai exhaust note sounds like a baby v-8! i understand its the entire system but ..i wonder if its not all in the muffler? never heard one sound so burbly

I was uncertain about fitment of this before so I had cast it out as an option but after some more careful measurement, I'm definitely leaning towards using it.
This is the muffler..
http://www.magnaflow.com/02product/shopexd.asp?zone=main&id=8245
It might be hard to picture, but this thing is a BEAST of a muffler. The body of it is roughly a yard in length and 7" round - 3" pipe diameter.
This is to take place of the upstream muffler as you can see in the diagram I made. It will occupy just about all of the longitudinal area that the stock cat and resonator would be. The rest of the plan is the same. With the measurements, I found that this large muffler would sit a little on the low side but not even as low as the lower swoop of the downpipe that no one has any clearance trouble with.
In many ways, this muffler design and dimensions should be a very choice answer to the drone tendancy of this motor.

Tomorrow, I'm going to call tech at magnaflow just to ask them what this muffler should handle for power (flow) needs. I'm not worried about the straight through muffler I'll use at the back but I want to at least get an opinion from the people who sell this muffler about my power needs. After all, my goal is to have a quiet system that supports my current and future power needs and looks nice and finished.