Hey all,
I just had my entire exhaust custom fabricated at a shop here in dallas. I'm going for an aggressive sound but not too loud or ricey. And of course must hear the turbo spool up. Well I picked it up yesterday and drove it home about 25 miles. I'm still breaking in the motor so wasn't going crazy or anything but I revved up the motor and could barely hear the thing! I mean like nothing. I could hear the fan and thats about it. Apparently this shop is one if not the only in the area to have a mandrel bender. So I had them make a 3" SS exhaust from downpipe all the way back to muffler. They had to modify the downpipe a bit since it came out of a mk3 and didn't pop out in the right spot. No cat. I bought a MagnaFlow muffler from billym. Muffler does not have any baffles and he had ran a resonator with this muffler and setup. So I figured I better get one too. I bought this one from amazon. Vibrant 1142 3" Ultra Quiet Resonat...p/B001806YE2/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_bEz6yb07WD30S. And told the shop to fit this and the magnaflow.
I'm telling you there is not a decibal of anything now. Did the shop do something wrong? The resonator was welded on right before muffler. From reading the reviews on amazon it seems that not some noise was reduced but most people can still hear some aggressive sound.
Im thinking my next step is to take it back and have them remove the resonator and see if that helps. But then I'm afraid it'll be too loud with just the muffler. Any thoughts or advice?
Thanks
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I just had my entire exhaust custom fabricated at a shop here in dallas. I'm going for an aggressive sound but not too loud or ricey. And of course must hear the turbo spool up. Well I picked it up yesterday and drove it home about 25 miles. I'm still breaking in the motor so wasn't going crazy or anything but I revved up the motor and could barely hear the thing! I mean like nothing. I could hear the fan and thats about it. Apparently this shop is one if not the only in the area to have a mandrel bender. So I had them make a 3" SS exhaust from downpipe all the way back to muffler. They had to modify the downpipe a bit since it came out of a mk3 and didn't pop out in the right spot. No cat. I bought a MagnaFlow muffler from billym. Muffler does not have any baffles and he had ran a resonator with this muffler and setup. So I figured I better get one too. I bought this one from amazon. Vibrant 1142 3" Ultra Quiet Resonat...p/B001806YE2/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_bEz6yb07WD30S. And told the shop to fit this and the magnaflow.
I'm telling you there is not a decibal of anything now. Did the shop do something wrong? The resonator was welded on right before muffler. From reading the reviews on amazon it seems that not some noise was reduced but most people can still hear some aggressive sound.
Im thinking my next step is to take it back and have them remove the resonator and see if that helps. But then I'm afraid it'll be too loud with just the muffler. Any thoughts or advice?
Thanks
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