Need some advice/experience/etc. *exhaust*

[SubiePrice88]

I have a 93 leg. wagon..and right now it just has some flowmaster or random muffler with a tip. It sounds alright, it has the amazing rumble..but its to rattle can/tinny for me.

So Im just wondering what is a good exhaust...Im thinking getting new piping from the cat back (what size?) and what muffler?

any advice would help..i really want a nice rumble(even loud is cool w/me)...so when im coming people know its me!!

thanks

[555BCTurbo]

2.25" with a resonator to a 5x8 straight through Magnaflow


Flowmasters sound like a bunch of angry trash cans

[SubiePrice88]

ha ha i know! i hate it! thanks for the advice man. but..whats a resonator?

what about borla??

[555BCTurbo]

Borlas are nice too...


For a resonator, just use a glasspack...

They are just there to deepen the tone a bit and take out the rasp.

[SubiePrice88]

alright. but isnt adding a glass pack just another muffler? what about like... no cat (what would that do) with 2.25'' piping to a borla/magnaflow??

Im up for anything really.

[555BCTurbo]

With no cat and no resonator it will be raspy...


Don't ask me how I know

[Murphy]

i think flowmaster super 40s sound pretty nice on Legacys

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MyuiXqxj304

[smh0101]

I love the sound of my Cobb cat-back... i also have a Perrin Divorced DP...

Mine is 3" From the Turbo back... Sounds great and Turbo spools hella fast.

[Arctic Assassian]

I'm looking to do an external WG setup and dump the gas just out the side behind the front tire. I want my car to snarl flames at people on the sidewalk, or in the slow lane.

[All_talk]

With no cat and no resonator it will be raspy...


Don't ask me how I know

Yep, typically a resonator is near the mid point of the exhaust length, having an expansion point there helps absorb and reflect the frequencies with shorter wave lengths (higher tones). There can be a lot of science in the sound of an exhaust. I’ve heard Ferrari actually tunes their exhausts to specific notes.

My 3” Helix turbo back has a center resonator and a huge straight through can, its quite loud, but sounds amazing. Even in the winter I usually drive with a window partway down so I can hear it better.
I'm going on 40 and most of my co-workers tell me my car sounds like something a 16 year old should drive... I dont care, I love it.

Pics from install day







Gary

[Brat4by4]

For NA you want stock exhaust piping size.

If it's a little too noisy now, just add a glasspack (as a resonator) inline on the exhaust somewhere. Should mellow out the noise a little bit, the rumble will stay.

This method is tried and true. Local performance shop (Buschur) just keeps adding resonators until the sound is mellow enough on their 600-900 hp EVO beasts.