I went to the muffler shop earlier today and took a look at the magnaflow ovals (4x9x14)... My goodness, they're pretty small and a little on the ugly side. Anyone have a picture of theirs on their R? Painted black? By the way, you can find the magnaflow 5x8x14 for $83 bucks at http://www.bestautopartsonline.com.

I might just go with the ES Tuning ovals which look a little bigger and better, although not as good quality and a little more expensive. Any opinion on their sound?

 

Uhm, just for your information, that is not a magnaflow nor es muffler. That is off of nwp4life's car and it's a greddy sp, I think, with the tip cut off.

 

ES OVAL? Aren't those the loud ****'s that trucks use?

 

Another useless post by vtec cx.

 

 

Bah, you're getting old, it's okay

 

my friend has this on his '89 supra. it's f*in loud even at 2500 RPM/

 

I have a 2.5" Magnaflow 4x9 oval on my civic. First thing i hear from people is that it looks like an ugly stock muffler. Sounds pretty decent, on the outside its somewhat deep until vtec and then it gets kinda blatty (or at least thats what my friend says) - that may also have to do with the 2.5" piping and carsound cat. I'm happy with the muffler itself though, especially the "ugly stock" look of it.


[Modified by ill phil, 9:03 AM 8/29/2002]

 

Actually its an ES Oval. I've heard this car personally and it sounds great. Check http://www.jdmhondaparts.com in 'autoland' to see more of his car that is for sale.

 

Guess freeman changed it from the old greddy unit. I stand corrected.

 

Stainless Magnaflow #14326



Aluminized Magnaflow #11226 painted black



SMSP - Who thinks that's just enough of the shiny stuff on a sports car because this ain't no Buick and I wouldn't want the police taking a second look.

 

An oval muffler should make a deep sound compared to round muffler type. ES Tuning (Borla) on the picture should make very deep sound and not raspy at all.

Are you planning to just get the muffler for stock exhaust? For stock exhaust (2.25inch piping) it might just sound right enough and relieve some backpressure.

For 2.5inch piping its going to get loud, even with resonators.

 

those are pics of your exhaust systems, right? So I assume you use Magnaflow pipes, etc. and then do the bends yourself?

 

Too bad the car is yellow.

 

I cut the tip off of my GReddy SP and it looks exactly like the ES tuning muffler. I hated the SP tip.....it looks way better now.

 

I'm running the Magnaflow Oval Street series. It has a 2.25" inlet and oulet with a silencer welded inside. I had the silence removed so it is 2.25 straight through. The sound is alot better than I expected. Actually its alot better than my Old style Comptech muffler. From the outside, it has a deep smooth sound. Its alot lounder from the inside of the car.

The tip is double rolled angle tip. The only mistake I did was I ordered the 7" tip as opposed to the 4" tip. This results in 3" of tip sticking out from the rear.

What I have:



What I should have purchased:


-Nick


[Modified by Nick248, 2:54 PM 8/29/2002]

 

Yes, that was the exhaust I built for the header test. I use a Magnaflow resonator and muffler, and weld the mandrel bends together.