Muffler Replacement 3.8L Questions

[scottdk]

Shot a few more clips of my Genesis in motion this morning. The clips show hard launches, slow take offs, and cruise-bys. As you can see/hear, the exhaust has a nice sound to it when you're not really getting on it. Under hard acceleration it's not quite as pretty, but I still think it's a little better than the whisper quiet stock sound.

2012 Genesis V6 launches and fly-bys

I agree, I think it sounds pretty nice (OEM infiniti) with normal driving and accelleration, but under more open throttle it sounds like a goat getting slaughtered.

 

[zielritter]

I agree, I think it sounds pretty nice (OEM infiniti) with normal driving and accelleration, but under more open throttle it sounds like a goat getting slaughtered.

lol at the goat getting slaughtered. Yes, it's not ideal but would probably be OK on a sports coupe. On this car it sounds not quite right. I think i can live with it until someone proposes a better solution - maybe the resonator delete + two VT's?. Maybe a better resonator? The stock resonator weighs at least 40 lbs, no joke so is quite a restriction.

 

[OneFunGenesis]

Hmmm. Do not want IMHO.

 

[zielritter]

More clips of normal acceleration. I actually think the raspiness has dissapated a little bit since last Friday. It's still there albeit less. The revs at the end definitely have less rasp than my earlier videos. Of course, I could just be lying to myself.

Light to Moderate Acceleration + Revs

 

[OneFunGenesis]

The raspiness did go away...for the most part. I wanna hear that on a V8....

 

[zielritter]

Last post I'll make in this thread about my exhaust. I finally broke down and couldn't stand the excessive rasp anymore resulting from no resonator. I bought myself two small 12" glasspacks and had them installed in place of where the stock resonator was.

I think I have a nicer tone now and a happy medium between stock and the craziness of running straight pipes in place of the resonator. I'll let you be the judge. Take in mind that these guys were literally installed 20 minutes before this video was shot so I expect some breaking in over time.

http://youtu.be/wmTJSKigZ9k

 

[the M5 beast]

On my M5 I bought remote controled electric cut outs. You can adjust the sound from inside to what ever sound you want. There is a video on you tube for the 4.6 I believe.