mufflers

[Familyguy88]

I am looking for a new muffler that will give me some sound, but i dont want it to make my Cav sound ricey. Is their a muffler that will have this effect on my Cav? I am currently looking at a DC Sports Universal Muffler will this suffice?
Thank you for your help

[cavy2fast4u]

There is only 1!!!! universal muffler I will put on my cav and it is a no name muffler that I cant find anymore. It sounded awesome. If I come across the name and part number I will let you know.

[PsychoJJ]

Look for a magnaflo. After tossing on my magnaflo setup I even have mustang guys compliment my exhaust sound.

[DopeSimple]

I have the Ractive fireball, it sounds good on my 2.2l... i didnt put the silencer in, gives it a good low bass sound.

[bh04]

I've got a nice cheapo ebay muffler. I have a video of the sound of it taking off and moving away from the camera. I'll have to videotape it again. Got mine for like $25 shipped two years ago and it is a nice non ricey sound.

[Familyguy88]

Do you think that the DC Sports muffler will sound ricey?

[CavLCD128]

mabye this is my opinion...but does anyone know how a muffler sounds unless they test it out? im not sure how DC's will sound but i also have a magnaflow exhaust and it sounds really nice...nice deep sound

[Cavalier2000]

summit racing has a nice muffler for like $20. bought one for my wife's ;aser. it is kinda deep at idol and gets troaty but if you want that flowmaster sound then all you have to do it get on it and it sounds AWESOME.

[WS-Enterprise]

if your wanting deep and throaty id say any muffler will work as long as it has at least a 4.0 outlet or bigger. I am running 2 4.5 strait cut muffs on my alero and it sounds nice and deep not ricy like a honda

[OverAllComa]

Originally Posted by WS-Enterprise

if your wanting deep and throaty id say any muffler will work as long as it has at least a 4.0 outlet or bigger. I am running 2 4.5 strait cut muffs on my alero and it sounds nice and deep not ricy like a honda

Uhhhhh...last time I checked the sound had more to do with stuff the motor itself, the baffling, the materials, and the structure of the muffler. The outlet size doesn't matter all that much.

[WS-Enterprise]

Originally Posted by OverAllComa

Uhhhhh...last time I checked the sound had more to do with stuff the motor itself, the baffling, the materials, and the structure of the muffler. The outlet size doesn't matter all that much.

accually it does, take a muffler with a 3.5 outlet and one with a 4.0 to 4.5 outlet and you will notice a great difference

[OverAllComa]

Originally Posted by WS-Enterprise

accually it does, take a muffler with a 3.5 outlet and one with a 4.0 to 4.5 outlet and you will notice a great difference

Actually, that's not a direct result of the outlet size, but rather a byproduct of the size of the outlet directly influencing the internal size of the chambers. While this is a tendency, it isn't a necessity, as you can easily have a muffler tip that is disproportionately large compared to the internal chambers. For example, a muffler that contains two chambers at approximately 2 1/4" a piece, but the outlet pipe has a tip that extends to 4" in width upon exiting the internal muffler structure; the sound difference would be negligible compared to the same internally constructed muffler containing a 3" outlet tip. The sound itself is not going to change tone in any noticeable way because in either even its not being restricted.

Using the example of your own Alero, I'm going to assume its using a 3x00 motor and not a Twin Cam as you don't specify. In this case I'd attribute the sound produced by your exhaust to the actual tone of the motor and the lack of cancellation coming from your muffler structure. Having owned a 3.1 V6 Z24 myself, I can claim witness to the naturally throaty sound of the motor especially when it doesn't have a lot of sound cancellation going on (removed the cat and the muffler had long since rusted out). This is not the case in the Twin Cam, which doesn't have quite so low a noise and obviously produced a different set of frequencies in the exhaust due to operation. I will, however, say that the motor itself does tend to have a deeper tone than a lot of 4 cylinders I've heard, except for pushrods like the 2.2OHV.

I'm kinda scared that people are apparently buying stuff from you, ya know?

[WS-Enterprise]

I can agree with you on this for I have the 2.4 twin cam but you also have to look at you piping that runs up to the muffler as well.. if your running the stock 1.75 piping it is going to be more restrictive then say a 2.25 or 2.50..so if you add the 2.50 piping, resonation champer and 4.5 inch muffler, all in all for a 4 banger you will get some impressivly lower sound then to be expected. I know that I had a DB test ran on my exhaust and i hit 136.0 DB
which is even louder the a police car for they only put out around 127.0 DB

[OverAllComa]

Originally Posted by WS-Enterprise

I can agree with you on this for I have the 2.4 twin cam but you also have to look at you piping that runs up to the muffler as well.. if your running the stock 1.75 piping it is going to be more restrictive then say a 2.25 or 2.50..so if you add the 2.50 piping, resonation champer and 4.5 inch muffler, all in all for a 4 banger you will get some impressivly lower sound then to be expected. I know that I had a DB test ran on my exhaust and i hit 136.0 DB
which is even louder the a police car for they only put out around 127.0 DB

Ah, the abandonment of all low-end power in the pursuit of "being loud."

Good call.

[97cavy]

Went for a Dynomax Bullet Series Stainless model. Why? It sounded damn good on my car, and gave me a pretty impressive gain behind the wheel.

If you are looking for sound, cut the pipe before the cat, and weld a folgers coffee can on it :P.

*edit: It doesnt have to be folgers, I hear that you may lose a dB or 2 if you use sanka though.*