Cheap and fun mods!

Ok, my dad lent me his commuter car, the 91 convertible blah blah. Anyway! Being the teen I am, I decided to have some fun with it. After the 1600watt system off ebay for 40 bux, I got some cheap rims, custom made my own taillights from the old housings without the lense "only because one of the lights was missing half of the lens and i thought i would get pulled over" and my favorite mod of all, the custom exhaust.

Tools needed...
1 hacksaw


Ok.. so here's what we do.
1 Take the hacksaw
2 Place it about 2 inches before the muffler
3 start sawing

*30mins later*

4 start the car and listen to her purr
*OPTIONAL*
5 The flexpipe from kragen fits nicely onto the end and you can put a cheap exhaust tip on there. Makes her look nice. I'll post pictures on www.cardomain.com/id/Chaser756/
Pics will work monday night, 4-21-03

The geo makes that nice sound you expect to come from TurboII's on a honda, with absolutely NO EXTRA PARTS! Simple mod, join the fun. Not only get good gas mileage, but turn heads and make ppl laugh. If you're worried about getting pulled over... HA, like a cop is going to pull over a geo. Take this for example.

Geo: VROOOOM
Honda: putt putt
Cop: "wtf was that noise??.... HONDA!! GET EM!"
Geo: "ha"

then pull safely into your driveway. He'll never know!

i have a ford aspire and recently i had to do some exost work and when i took off everything exept hedders the car sounded like an old mustang for kicks i drove it to a dino like horspower tv has and it registered wopping 72 horsepower

Without a muffler my 360 sounds like an ultralight airplane, and at idle it blows out perfect rings of smoke.

these forums are so picky about links.

www.cardomain.com/id/Chaser756 There... it'll work now. Still missing one picture but its up and u can play around, lol.

i too have chopped my exhaust off. although i am looking at purchasing a performance muffler for legality reasons, and after about 6 months the sound is almost annoying...lol

http://images.cardomain.com/member_images/2/web/434000-434999/434353_4_full.jpg

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or you can just check out my cardomain site at http://www.cardomain.com/id/muxpux

Hey when you chop off your muffler is it better to run a straight pipe out the back to get the fumes out of the bottom of your car? Would the exhaust fumes wreck your suspension and tires and all that?

it shoots straight into my bumper, i dunno about deteriorating all the suspension and tire components, it just gives the car a DEEP sound, and turns heads.

Sounds cool I'd love to do that... but with emissions testing do you have to have a muffler or just a catalytic convertor? I did mine yesterday and the guy stuck a mirror under for a second but just where the catalytic convertor was... I wonder if it's legal with just a catalytic convertor but no muffler.

i dunno, we dont have emissions testing here, and it might be my Cat. but it looks like there is a glasspack just behind the front seat area of the exhaust, its red and looks just like one, but im not sure.

Well if it's a cheap and fun mod chances are it's illegal to not have a muffler... most fun things are illegal for cars!

ive had my muffler off for about 7 months and no hassles from cops.

Yeah okay maybe not from cops but as far as emissions testing I'm sure it's illegal. Does it sound good quality?

its pretty decent, not the best....not as good as doing an actual exhaust upgrade. but its loud, and will turn some heads. but ive heard some hondas with those "fart"cans that are louder, so im not too worried. emissions wise, your right probably wont pass, but like i said, we dont have emissions testing here, so it doesnt matter.

I've got a 2 1/4" exhaust coming off of my Calmni headers, no cat, w/Dynomax muffler. It purrs quietly below 3000rpm, and roars from 5-9000rpm's :)

Sounds like it would be pretty loud when you're revving it that's cool. I've got to start WD40-ing my exhaust screws and stuff if I want to get the catalytic converter off

MAPP gas torch might work a lil better on busting those bolts loose.

I don't know if I want to get under my truck with a torch...

MAPP gas torch might work a lil better on busting those bolts loose.


maybe for the cat, when i took off my muffler, all i did was spray some anti-rust gunk on the joint, and let the car warmup to operating temp and wiggled the muffler loose, and just pulled it off, no hacksaw or anything.

Really, was it just clamped on instead of welded maybe?

Really, was it just clamped on instead of welded maybe?

i forget exactly, but we ran the car so the exhaust would expand and come apart easier.....

it shoots straight into my bumper, i dunno about deteriorating all the suspension and tire components, it just gives the car a DEEP sound, and turns heads.

from a geo???

more like a loud annoying buzz just like the fart cannon exausts on the honda civics in my town

ok ive had my muffler cut off for almost a year...n yes it damn annoyin. the first months it was funny cuz it was of course a loud ass geo n i had a goofy ricer tip on there. but that fell off then it just got annoyin. i havent gotten pulled over for it yet tho. the funny thing is i finally decided to put the muffler back on then the exhaust manifold up front broke a gasket/seal whatev so it was super loud again up front. fixed that then my muffler fell off. i said screw it n just left it. but in no way is it cool or have a deep sound. its just plain annoyin. also i believe u only need a cat n not the muffler too