Okay, so today I finally did it. I went to a local exhaust shop and got raped. Well, more or less. I purchased two Magnaflow 11365 mufflers $170, along with some quad exhaust tips from SoCal-autosports $110, and went to an exhaust shop to have it installed $270 after tax. Needless to say, I spent way more than I thought originally.
Anyways, so as I'm driving away from the shop, my exhaust progresses towards reaching operating temperature. As I'm fairly aware, the closer my car gets to operating temperature, the more the exhaust transforms from rice burner, to rich-toned. As I'm driving I noticed that the level of drone is increasing as operating temperature is being obtained. After work, I decided to go on a long drive to start the break-in period of my exhaust.
All I can say is, "Wow". There is so much drone being emitted from my exhaust, into the cabin of my car it's crazy. The 2.5k-3k drone is so bad when driving around town (terrible with windows down, worse with windows up). Freeway driving is unbearable. As you ascend and descend up and down varying grades of hills, and as the engine load changes, so does the intensity of the drone.
What I liked most about my previous exhaust setup on this car (stage 4 exhaust, no other mods!!!) was the exhaust had a loud tone to it as you went up the RPM band. With the windows up, you could hear the exhaust tone, but there was virtually NO DRONE. Since I'm still setup with stage 4 exhaust, the only difference is the rear magnaflow mufflers, I would have expected the same characteristics from my old mufflers to transpire to the new ones. The difference between the two (I thought) would be that the magnaflows were much louder.
I'm actually shocked how much drone I experience now. I will give this setup a month for things to settle and break in. But something is going to have to change, whether than be insulating mats layed on the contours of the trunk and cabin of my car, or the addition of a resonator.
I still have my dynomax 24235 race bullet muffler, I'm just not ready to throw in the towel and have that installed (again) and not know if that is the correct direction to go with this issue I'm having.
Input would be greatly appreciated. I've done some research to better understand the problem I am having. I've found a specific type of resonator that is capped at the end to cancel out unwanted resonants, but, again, I'm not sure if that is the correct path I need to take.
Anyways, so as I'm driving away from the shop, my exhaust progresses towards reaching operating temperature. As I'm fairly aware, the closer my car gets to operating temperature, the more the exhaust transforms from rice burner, to rich-toned. As I'm driving I noticed that the level of drone is increasing as operating temperature is being obtained. After work, I decided to go on a long drive to start the break-in period of my exhaust.
All I can say is, "Wow". There is so much drone being emitted from my exhaust, into the cabin of my car it's crazy. The 2.5k-3k drone is so bad when driving around town (terrible with windows down, worse with windows up). Freeway driving is unbearable. As you ascend and descend up and down varying grades of hills, and as the engine load changes, so does the intensity of the drone.
What I liked most about my previous exhaust setup on this car (stage 4 exhaust, no other mods!!!) was the exhaust had a loud tone to it as you went up the RPM band. With the windows up, you could hear the exhaust tone, but there was virtually NO DRONE. Since I'm still setup with stage 4 exhaust, the only difference is the rear magnaflow mufflers, I would have expected the same characteristics from my old mufflers to transpire to the new ones. The difference between the two (I thought) would be that the magnaflows were much louder.
I'm actually shocked how much drone I experience now. I will give this setup a month for things to settle and break in. But something is going to have to change, whether than be insulating mats layed on the contours of the trunk and cabin of my car, or the addition of a resonator.
I still have my dynomax 24235 race bullet muffler, I'm just not ready to throw in the towel and have that installed (again) and not know if that is the correct direction to go with this issue I'm having.
Input would be greatly appreciated. I've done some research to better understand the problem I am having. I've found a specific type of resonator that is capped at the end to cancel out unwanted resonants, but, again, I'm not sure if that is the correct path I need to take.