86rx786

I'm wondering what this custom exhaust will sound like. I was thinking about doing a straight pipe from the manifold to a y pipe which have aftermarket mufflers on them (not sure on the brand). Will it be obnoxiously loud or sound good?

PvillKnight7

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obnoxiously loud and your car will still be slow

arsinal4496

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i have a full 3 inch exhaust. from down pipe to y pipe and run two universal racing beat mufflers at the end. loud? ehh kinda, especially if u live in city with alot of traffic, buildings, ect, ect. Alot depends on what u consider to be loud too. iv noticed that once i drive the car where traffic isnt an issue and theres open road, it aint that bad at all. i wish i had a sound clip so i could post it up.

arsinal4496

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if performance isnt an issue/factor, y even bother haha

theres plenty of utube videos out there that can show u how itll sound.

MMoore4545

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Straight pipes, or straight through mufflers with no cat gives you some afterburn in your exhaust. N/A's run plenty rich from the factory, so the flames will happen.

It's going to be really loud, straight pipes with two no name, no brand mufflers at the end will probably limit conversation in the car. I wouldn't recommend it. You're just going to make yourself a target for cops, and vandals.

Also, Youtube videos give a great idea of "tone" for the exhaust, but they don't do a good job of portraying volume since camera microphones scale gain back so the sound doesn't distort or clip

throw a pre-muffler or pre-silencer into the mix. Some of the better sounding exhaust s in my opinion are the quieter Trust/Greddy ones. With four mufflers and a pre-silencer, they're just expensive.

What's on the car now?

jerd_hambone

I don't think you quite understand how loud the car will be. If you've never heard one in person, you don't fully appreciate it. Take a 4 cylinder, run it open header, that will be close to as loud as a rotary with a straight exhaust to 2 straight through mufflers

MMoore4545

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Hook up a flamethrower kit. That's the easiest, cheapest setup if you just want to shoot flames from your exhaust.

More importantly you'll pop flames each and every time you want to.

88_N/A_GXL

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Easiest setup to shoot flames would just be manifold only. I had my exhaust ripped off a while back and had massive flames shooting out under the car. LOUD as hell tho, especially up at ~7k.

REAmemiya_fan

You gotta be kidding me. You guys have been wayyyyyy too nice to this joke. Wanting to shoot flames? Really, have we not grown up from the horrid 2 fast 2 furious era? You know what sounds cool? The sound of performance and no wasted performance. You show up to a meet with a crap straight pipe exhaust that just makes everyone's ears bleed will annoy everyone there to the point where they either kick you out of the spot or leave themselves.

"Straight pipes, or straight through mufflers with no cat gives you some afterburn in your exhaust. N/A's run plenty rich from the factory, so the flames will happen."

To the point of the thread, why did you keep asking what is the best exhaust is after he's already told you? If you want just straight straight pipes, go on to eBay, and buy whatever Megan crap they have on there. If you want a little performance out of there, go get a RacingBeat or Rotary Works (IIRC) header, then weld on a pipe straight back to whatever catback you prefer.

But please for the love of humanity, don't embarrass the FC community by being an obnoxious fool with an exhaust that is race car loud without race car performance. That's the whole reason most people in America hate our 'ricer imports' to begin with.

/rant

Rob XX 7

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it will be very loud
it will become annoying

chicks will NOT dig it
their parents will not dig it
your employer will not dig it
you will get dirty looks at car meets- exception to this is if you have 500hp and your car is loud
you will get dirty looks going to dinner in it

you will smell

you will get a headache
you will HATE it on a long drive
you will start to hate it on short drives

you will attract the attention of the police- if you like to do things like smoke once a in while or have a drink or two you are practically putting a billboard on top of your car asking for trouble ( I dont mean driving drunk or stoned- you know what I mean )

You will smell ( did I say that already )

tuscanidream

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My girlfriend has a 3" down pipe with stock mufflers on her t2. It doesn't sound bad at all. You could hear it idle and while stepping on it (without rasp). It was rather quiet keeping the same speed. I know it's a t2, but maybe an aftermarket header with a resonator would yield a similar sound.

beefhole

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Sorry to burst many bubbles (some people here get it)... rotaries sound like ****. That's it. I love this car and engine, I always will. But damn, I hate the noise it makes. At idle.. OK. A rotary port (even stock) has a neat sound to it. A nice subtle bbbrrrrooomp brrooomp. Then you drive along Everything sucks after that.

Sorry people, piston engines do sound better, especially Italian piston engines!

misterstyx69

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I hope you got a sense of Humour Tuscani!..here:..lol!.Quote revised!
I'm a little twisted ..sorry!
...anyways OP: It's your call.You want Loud,take the cats off,run straight pipe and Go for it.
But if you want a drivable car you should just ditch the"shoot Flames" Crap and concentrate on making an exhaust that actually helps the car,not get you pulled over looking like a %$@#!
Sad part would be that someone would think that you actually Have power under all that noise.

need RX7

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My car used to have a Bonez 'Race pipe' on it (a pipe from the manifold to the y-pipe with a small pre-silencer in it), followed by a no-name exhaust similar to an older Racing Beat unit. It was pretty quiet and sounded good under acceleration.

I recently took it off to restore it for use on my other FC, and I put the exhaust that came on my other car in its place. That exhaust consists of a pipe off of the manifold, to a large-ish aftermarket catalytic converter, to the stock y-pipe with glass packs welded in place of the mufflers. It's very loud. Admittedly, it sounds cool when driving spiritedly, but the rest of the time it's loud and ******* annoying.

If your new exhaust doesn't consist of a quality muffler as a pre-silencer, and at least one quality muffler at the end (preferably two)... don't do it.

Rob XX 7

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turbo car will be quieter then a NA car

arsinal4496

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+1

i took this thread seriously at first.

88_N/A_GXL

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@REAmemiya_fan, I was just informing the OP that that would be the easiest, not saying I agree with it, it just happened to happen to me one time and I had a buddy tell me. If OP wants to be one of the idiotic stereotypical ricers, I believe that is his own right. But, I know he won't be getting much respect from the people that actually have an import and know how to properly handle and tune/upgrade it.

@beefhole, personally I like the sound of a nice PP :P, even running up 10k+ on a PP 4-rotor doesn't sound horrid to me. But, I guess it's a matter of personal preference.

jerd_hambone

With the right exhaust a rotary can sound decent. But it takes a lot of planning to get rid of the tinny sound.

jackhild59

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Yeah, yeah, but will it SHOOT FLAMES????

REAmemiya_fan

I disagree, but for all intensive purposes, look up 'fujita engineering rx7' on YouTube. Probably the best sounding 13B I've heard, as far as a streetable non-bridge port engine goes.

Rob XX 7

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sound of fujita engineering rx7 > sound of shitty exhaust RX7 from st cloud MI

Rob XX 7

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same ****


merry christmas

Rob XX 7

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stock exhaust has like 3 cats dont it?
your best to just go with something else instead of going to all that trouble

Bamato

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I wish more people would understand that cats aren't bad for rotaries. They actually take the shitty, tin foiled, kazoo sound out of the exhaust really well. And if you're upgrading to 2.5-3" exhaust anyway, they provide almost no measurable back pressure.

To reply to the OP, your exhaust idea is going to sound like garbage. And what's the excitement for shooting fireballs out the exhaust?? I've never quite understood why people want that...

Rob XX 7

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when my car was NA I had a RB pre-silencer, it had rotted out ( this was prior to the stainless versions ), so the time came I put a high flow catco on there, less then $100.

It not only passed emissions testing on its own, even dyno emissions testing, but it removed the nastiness from the exhaust itself, it made driving the car 10x's more enjoyable. It lost no power either, none at all.