Need to quiet exhaust, need suggestions

frontierguy25

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OK Guys,
I have a 3" Exhaust system from turbo back, no cats, no resonator, just pipe and a Basani muffler. I am driving this car every day now and it's loud inside the cabin. It drones a lot!!! I'm thinking about putting my cat back on and adding a resonator to quiet it down a little and then adding a cut out right before the cat so I can boost a lot when going to the track. But everywhere I called said they wouldn't put a cutout before the cat it had to be after.

Should I get a different muffler and add a resonator?

Should I reinstall the cat now or just for emissions?

Thanks for the help guys.
 

Nocheez

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I'm in the same boat, except I have a 3" high-flow cat and a Borla straight-through muffler. I'm going to the exhaust shop to get a resonator installed in the near future, I'll update you when I get done.
 

HommerSimpson

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I had 3 inch from turbo back with a summit turbo muf at end... and it droned... so i put the muffler were the resonator was it still droned... then I tryed a few mufflers i cut off car lot cars and left the summit muffler still were res was..typical round big tip ones... and it STILL droned... so i took a peace of pipe that fit snuggly inside the muffler... cut it on chop saw about every 2 inches about 1/3 way threw and turned it just a little ever cut.. then ball pened one side down inside the pipe... then hammerd it in muffler... lost just a tad of power but its as quiet as can be.... The set up is on my Gfs 88 now.. as i got side pipes ... and i love the sound of them...no drone at all.. just nice deap tone when you get on it...
 

frontierguy25

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Nocheez;1046859 said:
I'm in the same boat, except I have a 3" high-flow cat and a Borla straight-through muffler. I'm going to the exhaust shop to get a resonator installed in the near future, I'll update you when I get done.

Thanks, Nocheez,

I'm going to put my cat back on and get a resonator as well. I just want it a little more quiet.

There is a shop locally that will do the cut out that I found. Or I could just unbolt the cat when I go to the track.
 
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Running no cats but definitely the resonator and a generic off the shelf muffler. Nice and quiet except for the turbo spinning up and that helps get pedestrians out of the way.
 

Sawbladz

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If you like the look of your current setup, buy a cat and resonator and be done with it. If not, buy one of the quieter systems but add the cat. I see no reason to not have a cat on a street car.
 

frontierguy25

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Sawbladz;1047118 said:
If you like the look of your current setup, buy a cat and resonator and be done with it. If not, buy one of the quieter systems but add the cat. I see no reason to not have a cat on a street car.

I'm thinking about changing the muffler, the only reason I took out my cat was because there was nothing in it and it droned even more.

Or you could just take everything off and add a TANABE HYPER MEDALLION!!!!...LOL

Is this a quiet exhaust? I haven't ever looked into exhaust before.
 

MK_rider

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Yep, tanabe is quiet and good for performance too. It's quiet when your cruising but when you put the pedal to the medal, it sounds awsome.
 

gtsfirefighter

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I have a 3" exhaust from the turbo back, a 3" hi-flow cat, and an 3" in and dual 2.5" out Magnaflow muffler it drones quite a bit puttin around town. It's not that bad while cruising but it's still there. I was thinking of trying to find a reasonator to have put on it. Where can you get 3" reasonators?
 

Nocheez

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MK_rider;1047473 said:
when you put the pedal to the medal

:biglaugh: I think you mean "metal"

gtsfirefighter;1047484 said:
Where can you get 3" reasonators?
Summit sells a straight-through 3" resonator for like $70. Your local muffler shop should carry something as well. Talk to them.
 

xarewhyayen

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Tanabe hyper medallion. I'm running it and its very high flow and quiet at light throttle input. Doesn't drone