nomoreavril

well i made the plunge again...i'm known around town for always changing my exhaust. on my old cobalt i had 3 diff setups, and on my focus i had 3 setups as well.i can never find the perfect sound i'm looking for. i had a regular canister style muffler on my most recent setup on my cobalt(you can find the thread w/clips) sounded nice after warmed up, but sounded HORRIBLE when cold..like seriously..had this really high HIGH pitched ricey fart sound at the top of revs...ugh. and echoes...oh my god. it would echo off of everything. hard to explain.

well anyways, was just browsing through pep boys, just for fun, and came across a magnaflow muffler! 2.5 inch inlet/outlet oval style, not canister. 71 bucks tax included. i figured hell, why not?
i' was never a fan of magnaflow...maybe its just the clips on their website. but it sounds great on my car. sounds best when at wot. nice and growly at lower rpms. its just a straight forward 2.25 crush bent(ew ) exhaust, i know i probably lost some hp for those bends..it probably might as well be 2'' exhaust lol...but i know its better than stock. no resonator. so its pretty much the magnaflow system -resonator. it is loud as hell(in a good way) from the outside of the car, but only when the backside is facing you.

tomorrow i will get a launch vid or something like on magnaflows website. after a while i might save up and get the pacesetter catback just for the mandrel bends.. and use my magnaflow muffler..unless someone makes piping kits for our cars? at least change the pipe from the muffler to the tip, becausse the muffler is 2.5, that pipe is 2.25, and i have some concerns on the pipe of the muffler going OVER the pipe to the tip...might cause some unwanted pressure or something.

06cobaltls

so what are you doing with your other muffler

nomoreavril

i guess either throw it in my garage or find some kid in town to sell it to for cheap. i dont even know what brand it is. it was up on the display shelf of the muffler shop lol.

nomoreavril

ok clips here! and just so you know, it didnt get rid of the crappy rice sound early in the morning when it hasnt been driven..lol.

heres from outside of car/launch. i didnt edit it so you can hear me 1/8th of a mile a way and you can see how loud it is, plus my rumbling/"backfiring" listen closely.



then heres 2 birds with one stone....in car(with windows down) + 0-60

nomoreavril

please comment!

SilverBalt

personally dont like it, its a little ricy, but good job, your happy lol and after reading you first post it will be different in baout a month or so, go wiht a higher quality exause than a pacesetter imo, yeah tehre cheap, but you get what you pay for.. i would say save for the corsa... or the gmpp exaust

LaserblueSS

iTrader: (1)

wow, your balt sure got up and went man. im surprised. that speedometer seemed to be moving quite fast. i have an ss/sc and that still impressed me. kudos man.

hatrickstu

iTrader: (1)

i think it sounds good man

nomoreavril

i think the camera may have distorted the initial rev..because it doesnt sound exactly like that

hatrickstu

iTrader: (1)

dude did you even notice the speedo is different than an ss/sc? 60 is in the middle of his speedo, watch again, i just watched the time down at the bottom and it looked to be about 7-8 seconds for 0-60

06cobaltls

it sounds noice

biohazard

ur like me my um 4th or 5th setup on my balt is this week

nomoreavril

lol you can hear the fluctuating idle problem when i start my car..

nomoreavril

also i know this has been covered but i can never find a straight answer..would it be better to shift right before limiter or at like 5500 rpms?

mkulrey13

iTrader: (39)

learn to shift lol sounds like your bouncing off the limiter before you shift.

mkulrey13

iTrader: (39)

does sound nice. should get the DC SPort exhaust. sounds the best for teh 2.2's

karl

you never will get the sound you want untill you go full cat back

biohazard

o header back

p7x

sounds alright, i think its hilarious how even though ur down the road it sounds like ur still right next to the camera lol

1SloBowtie

In most dyno's I've seen for the 2.2, power starts to drop off around 55-5700. Redline is @ 6500, so I always shift around 6k when Im getting on it...

Red06LS

I just got that same muffler, and im in the process in designing what i want to do with it but im happy with the sound of it on your ca, i love the raspyness of it.

nomoreavril

i know it sounds like i'm hitting the limiter but i'm actually not just close..it just sounds like it. and yeah i've only been driving 5speeds for a total of like...4-5 weeks so i'm still learning..

and it is catback, unless you mean downpipe too:P

nomoreavril

lol..what should i do with my magnaflow sticker that came in the box? put it on a window or something? or is that too ricey.

bigworm

way too loud for my tastes

IonNinja

doesn't sound bad but seems like its pretty damn loud