Why Does My Exhaust Sound Raspy????
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Why Does My Exhaust Sound Raspy????
wut up...i dont understand why my exhaust sounds like a tin can up top...i have a DC 4-2-1 Header, noname omnipower knockoff straight pipe, 2.5" Custom piping, and a 2.5" Magnaflow oval muffler.... if anyone knows how can i get rid of this raspyness its annoying... i dunno if its the magnaflow muffler..or that i have no resinator or what...lemme kno whats up
Modified by Got Milk at 11:20 PM 5/14/2005
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Re: Why Does My Exhaust Sound Raspy???? (Got Milk)
I don't meen to sound like a jerk but you went the cheap way insted of the right way! first mistake is the header, on a 4 cyclinder they produce no gains but noise,
second ebay cat, I have bought everything for my car from ebay but only name brand or honda parts. third 99% of the time when some makes piping it is not mandrul bent and there are lots of welds and bends. Forth magnaflow are not good exhausts at all they all sound raspy. Fifth yes taking out the resinator will help to give you that sound. I hope this is helpfull, next time do your home work first.
$400 to $500=Full Cat back ment for the car w/ good sound
Cheap way + $400 to $500=waste of time and money
second ebay cat, I have bought everything for my car from ebay but only name brand or honda parts. third 99% of the time when some makes piping it is not mandrul bent and there are lots of welds and bends. Forth magnaflow are not good exhausts at all they all sound raspy. Fifth yes taking out the resinator will help to give you that sound. I hope this is helpfull, next time do your home work first.
$400 to $500=Full Cat back ment for the car w/ good sound
Cheap way + $400 to $500=waste of time and money
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Throw on a glass pack and even after is breaks in, it will not be raspy.
And for the above post...you don't have to spend that much money for a good sounding and functional exhaust. The biggest difference between the name brand and the piece it together is weight. I spent a little over 200 on the exhaust on my crx and sounded deeper and quieter than most of the cat backs I've heard. JMO
And for the above post...you don't have to spend that much money for a good sounding and functional exhaust. The biggest difference between the name brand and the piece it together is weight. I spent a little over 200 on the exhaust on my crx and sounded deeper and quieter than most of the cat backs I've heard. JMO
Re: Why Does My Exhaust Sound Raspy???? (Jdm_honda_ek9)
<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by Jdm_honda_ek9 »</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">I don't meen to sound like a jerk but you went the cheap way insted of the right way! first mistake is the header, on a 4 cyclinder they produce no gains but noise,
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HAHA! Good joke.
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HAHA! Good joke.
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Re: (Jdm_honda_ek9)
<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by Jdm_honda_ek9 »</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">Did you dyno it or are you going by feel. Import tuner did an article on how header are a waste, the most they got was 1 horse from a DC on a B16a2 
thoughs are the facts sorry!</TD></TR></TABLE>
All dyno here. How about +15hp midrange and +8hp top end for a spoon header?
thoughs are the facts sorry!</TD></TR></TABLE>All dyno here. How about +15hp midrange and +8hp top end for a spoon header?
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havent dyno'd yet, but I will and we'll see what happened.
I can assure you though, it's pulling now where as before I didnt feel much (perhaps I was used to it ... the fact it's pulling now says something)
I can assure you though, it's pulling now where as before I didnt feel much (perhaps I was used to it ... the fact it's pulling now says something)
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Re: (Jdm_honda_ek9)
<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by Jdm_honda_ek9 »</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">Import tuner did an article on how header are a waste, the most they got was 1 horse from a DC on a B16a2 thoughs are the facts sorry!</TD></TR></TABLE>
Can somebody post a copy of this article? I want to read it.
thoughs are the facts sorry!</TD></TR></TABLE>Can somebody post a copy of this article? I want to read it.
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Re: (Jdm_honda_ek9)
<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by Jdm_honda_ek9 »</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">Did you dyno it or are you going by feel. Import tuner did an article on how header are a waste, the most they got was 1 horse from a DC on a B16a2 thoughs are the facts sorry!</TD></TR></TABLE>
perhaps with stock exhaust and intake.... but I am sure that a b16 with 2.25+ exhaust system and CAI would see more than 1 hp gains from a good header.
thoughs are the facts sorry!</TD></TR></TABLE>perhaps with stock exhaust and intake.... but I am sure that a b16 with 2.25+ exhaust system and CAI would see more than 1 hp gains from a good header.
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<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by Jdm_honda_ek9 »</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">I don't meen to sound like a jerk but you went the cheap way insted of the right way! first mistake is the header, on a 4 cyclinder they produce no gains but noise,
second ebay cat, I have bought everything for my car from ebay but only name brand or honda parts. third 99% of the time when some makes piping it is not mandrul bent and there are lots of welds and bends. Forth magnaflow are not good exhausts at all they all sound raspy. Fifth yes taking out the resinator will help to give you that sound. I hope this is helpfull, next time do your home work first.
$400 to $500=Full Cat back ment for the car w/ good sound
Cheap way + $400 to $500=waste of time and money</TD></TR></TABLE>
You are hella whack.
To the original poster of this thread, not having a resonator more then likely has A LOT to do with why you're exhaust sounds raspy as hell. Get a resonator and I bet you you're nasty raspy sound will be gone.
second ebay cat, I have bought everything for my car from ebay but only name brand or honda parts. third 99% of the time when some makes piping it is not mandrul bent and there are lots of welds and bends. Forth magnaflow are not good exhausts at all they all sound raspy. Fifth yes taking out the resinator will help to give you that sound. I hope this is helpfull, next time do your home work first.
$400 to $500=Full Cat back ment for the car w/ good sound
Cheap way + $400 to $500=waste of time and money</TD></TR></TABLE>
You are hella whack.
To the original poster of this thread, not having a resonator more then likely has A LOT to do with why you're exhaust sounds raspy as hell. Get a resonator and I bet you you're nasty raspy sound will be gone.
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<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by jethawk »</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">no resonator would do it... i have a magnaflow muffler with stock cat... a resonator and only 2.25" piping.. and its nice and deep no raspyness at all</TD></TR></TABLE>
Damn right. To the guy that posted that magnaflow exhaust are ****. You are **** and so is what comes out of your mouth. I have got a magnaflow catback and it's as deep as hell. Very deep tone and I have yet to hear it go raspy . Just because it's not JDM doesn't mean it's not any good. Go read a book!
Damn right. To the guy that posted that magnaflow exhaust are ****. You are **** and so is what comes out of your mouth. I have got a magnaflow catback and it's as deep as hell. Very deep tone and I have yet to hear it go raspy
. Just because it's not JDM doesn't mean it's not any good. Go read a book!
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i got a question about the raspy noise myself...right now i have stock headers and cat and a brospeed oval exhaust. if i take out my resonator would I get the raspy noise that's being talked about here? I always wondered how it would sound w/o the resonator. my car is a 96 civic ex.
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No resonator usually means more raspy... but if theres still a STOCK cat then it shouldn't be that bad...
I have an aftermarkey header (chikara tork-step (don't laugh that thing rocks and is dirt cheap)), a hollowed out cat (it's hollowed cuz it went bad and I didn't fill out the warranty... as soon as I get it back on the road I'll be doing another cat) and a magnaflow cat back...
It was WAY WAY WAY too loud with no cat and the coffee can muffler that the magnaflow came with so I hacked it off and put on a 14x9 oval muffler... it quited it down a LOT and with a hi-flo cat it would probobly sound close to stock... just a little deeper.
I may even do another resonator in line to get the sound down even more... I like a very subtle if not un-noticable exhaust note.... No reason to draw attention to the car... especially the attention a raspy exhaust causes...
The week or two I had the no cat and magnaflow cat back set up I got pulled over 3 times and got a ticket that REQUIRED I go to court and prove I fixed it... That sucked.
I have an aftermarkey header (chikara tork-step (don't laugh that thing rocks and is dirt cheap)), a hollowed out cat (it's hollowed cuz it went bad and I didn't fill out the warranty... as soon as I get it back on the road I'll be doing another cat) and a magnaflow cat back...
It was WAY WAY WAY too loud with no cat and the coffee can muffler that the magnaflow came with so I hacked it off and put on a 14x9 oval muffler... it quited it down a LOT and with a hi-flo cat it would probobly sound close to stock... just a little deeper.
I may even do another resonator in line to get the sound down even more... I like a very subtle if not un-noticable exhaust note.... No reason to draw attention to the car... especially the attention a raspy exhaust causes...
The week or two I had the no cat and magnaflow cat back set up I got pulled over 3 times and got a ticket that REQUIRED I go to court and prove I fixed it... That sucked.
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Re: Why Does My Exhaust Sound Raspy???? (Jdm_honda_ek9)
<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by Jdm_honda_ek9 »</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">I don't meen to sound like a jerk but you went the cheap way insted of the right way! first mistake is the header, on a 4 cyclinder they produce no gains but noise,
second ebay cat, I have bought everything for my car from ebay but only name brand or honda parts. third 99% of the time when some makes piping it is not mandrul bent and there are lots of welds and bends. Forth magnaflow are not good exhausts at all they all sound raspy. Fifth yes taking out the resinator will help to give you that sound. I hope this is helpfull, next time do your home work first.
$400 to $500=Full Cat back ment for the car w/ good sound
Cheap way + $400 to $500=waste of time and money</TD></TR></TABLE>
What are u talking about man DC makes good headers, i got the 4-2-1 for bottom end power...and the ebay cat i only said ebay because its a noname omnipower straight pipe
and what the hell do u mean next time do ur homework i knew obviously it was either the muffler or the fact that i have no resinator i was jus asking to see if i was right because i plan to fix the raspyness asap...and i heard alot of custom exhausts that sound fine not like a tin can...which is why i chose to make my own exhaust...now i kno all i have to do is change my muffler and add in a resinator.....and i dunno where ur from with the $400 to $500 custom piping...i only paid 175 for my whole exhaust
Modified by Got Milk at 11:19 PM 5/14/2005
second ebay cat, I have bought everything for my car from ebay but only name brand or honda parts. third 99% of the time when some makes piping it is not mandrul bent and there are lots of welds and bends. Forth magnaflow are not good exhausts at all they all sound raspy. Fifth yes taking out the resinator will help to give you that sound. I hope this is helpfull, next time do your home work first.
$400 to $500=Full Cat back ment for the car w/ good sound
Cheap way + $400 to $500=waste of time and money</TD></TR></TABLE>
What are u talking about man DC makes good headers, i got the 4-2-1 for bottom end power...and the ebay cat i only said ebay because its a noname omnipower straight pipe
and what the hell do u mean next time do ur homework i knew obviously it was either the muffler or the fact that i have no resinator i was jus asking to see if i was right because i plan to fix the raspyness asap...and i heard alot of custom exhausts that sound fine not like a tin can...which is why i chose to make my own exhaust...now i kno all i have to do is change my muffler and add in a resinator.....and i dunno where ur from with the $400 to $500 custom piping...i only paid 175 for my whole exhaust
Modified by Got Milk at 11:19 PM 5/14/2005
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<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by EricUSC »</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">Can somebody post a copy of this article? I want to read it.</TD></TR></TABLE>
Here it is
"Well, we bought some headers, and after womehow talking about the 'hottest drift carz' on the scene, we decided to test them. I knocked a burrito out of chinos hand and that was pretty funny. Usually, headers perform like big ****. JDM is cool all of a sudden, even though a year ago every car we featured had triple body kits and a lot of decals. We dont follow trends or anything."
Here it is
"Well, we bought some headers, and after womehow talking about the 'hottest drift carz' on the scene, we decided to test them. I knocked a burrito out of chinos hand and that was pretty funny. Usually, headers perform like big ****. JDM is cool all of a sudden, even though a year ago every car we featured had triple body kits and a lot of decals. We dont follow trends or anything."
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Re: Why Does My Exhaust Sound Raspy???? (Jdm_honda_ek9)
<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by Jdm_honda_ek9 »</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">I don't meen to sound like a jerk but you went the cheap way insted of the right way! first mistake is the header, on a 4 cyclinder they produce no gains but noise,
second ebay cat, I have bought everything for my car from ebay but only name brand or honda parts. third 99% of the time when some makes piping it is not mandrul bent and there are lots of welds and bends. Forth magnaflow are not good exhausts at all they all sound raspy. Fifth yes taking out the resinator will help to give you that sound. I hope this is helpfull, next time do your home work first.
$400 to $500=Full Cat back ment for the car w/ good sound
Cheap way + $400 to $500=waste of time and money</TD></TR></TABLE>
go away
second ebay cat, I have bought everything for my car from ebay but only name brand or honda parts. third 99% of the time when some makes piping it is not mandrul bent and there are lots of welds and bends. Forth magnaflow are not good exhausts at all they all sound raspy. Fifth yes taking out the resinator will help to give you that sound. I hope this is helpfull, next time do your home work first.
$400 to $500=Full Cat back ment for the car w/ good sound
Cheap way + $400 to $500=waste of time and money</TD></TR></TABLE>
go away
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Re: (Jdm_honda_ek9)
<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by Jdm_honda_ek9 »</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">Did you dyno it or are you going by feel. Import tuner did an article on how header are a waste, the most they got was 1 horse from a DC on a B16a2 thoughs are the facts sorry!</TD></TR></TABLE> i believe in that issue they also blew the welds on there intakes
thoughs are the facts sorry!</TD></TR></TABLE> i believe in that issue they also blew the welds on there intakes
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on my '94 vx, d15z1.... i got DC 4-1, full 2.5" piping, to an R1 CF muffler with 4" tip. no cat, resinator, just piping. sounds very deep, but at WOT its too loud. if i put the silencer tip on the muffler, i does get a lil "raspy"
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Did I <TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by Bond »</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">
Damn right. To the guy that posted that magnaflow exhaust are ****. You are **** and so is what comes out of your mouth. I have got a magnaflow catback and it's as deep as hell. Very deep tone and I have yet to hear it go raspy . Just because it's not JDM doesn't mean it's not any good. Go read a book!</TD></TR></TABLE>
Did I say anything about JDM??? NO.....My first exhaust was a Apexi N1 but it got trendy and every got them and put them on everything like caviliers and sh*t so I got an RS*R. There are good USDM exhausts if they are made for your car.
to end this sh*t, put a god damb resinnator back on and enjoy your magnaflow!
Damn right. To the guy that posted that magnaflow exhaust are ****. You are **** and so is what comes out of your mouth. I have got a magnaflow catback and it's as deep as hell. Very deep tone and I have yet to hear it go raspy
. Just because it's not JDM doesn't mean it's not any good. Go read a book!</TD></TR></TABLE>Did I say anything about JDM??? NO.....My first exhaust was a Apexi N1 but it got trendy and every got them and put them on everything like caviliers and sh*t so I got an RS*R. There are good USDM exhausts if they are made for your car.
to end this sh*t, put a god damb resinnator back on and enjoy your magnaflow!
