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Old 06-10-2008, 09:41 AM
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Default Need a mellow-sounding muffler -- !

Hi Guys:

At the moment we are using an Eldebrock 55767 dual-in, dual-out muffler on our 1986 BMW E30-LS1. The car runs great, but the exhaust is too loud and too sharp: like a loud pickup. We're looking for a more mellow street rod sound. Our exhaust has headers to 4"dia cats on each side, (2) 2-1/4" pipes back to the muffler at the rear of the car. Got any suggestions?? See our swap at:

http://forums.bimmerforums.com/forum...d.php?t=699289

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Magnaflow's are usually fairly mellow.

http://www.magnaflow.com/02product/u...asp?shape=Oval
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If it is possible to eliminate the 2 1/4" and go with a larger diameter that will get rid of alot of the sharpness in the tone and give you a deeper sound.
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Dynomax SuperTurbo would be extremely mellow.

I'm running Borla ProXS' on my Camaro. They are mellow below 3000rpm or so, and then get loud quick. It's a different loud than the old 40 series 2-chamber Flowmasters I originally had on it... higher pitched, not the classic muscle car sound (some of that is LS1 firing order i think). Idle and low RPM has the classic muscle car sound though.
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Magnaflows are pretty mellow. We have a pair of them in the 67 and it is really tolerable and sounds good. Get loud over 3K, but what do you expect?




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