ok.. i am gearing up for a new sound. But i am thinking about just going with 2 new mufflers and 2 new tips and not the whole exhaust for now. anyone know the inlet size i need, and muffler size in length??

i was thinking borla or flowmaster.. something nice and deep sounding but not too loud.. any thoughts??

thanks in advance!!

 

Personally, I would try removing the resonator first. Many people like the way that sounds. Really wakes up the exhaust tone and won't give you an earache. lol

-Mike

 

i have magnaflow mufflers and love it. ive had people say it sounds like a mustang gt with exhaust driving by or a camaro ss. u know what is B.S. is teh trailblazer ss has like 4 difference exhaust systems available but our montes have what magnalfow catback?

 

Someone in this section posted a clip of some flowmasters and they sounded pretty good but id do as mgpeagle said and remove the resonator and then maybe go with some borla xr-1's or something comprable.

 

stock piping is 2.25 on the back side of the y pipe.
flowmaster suck. thats just my opinion

 

I agree, I would go with magnaflows.

 

Vote for Magna's here, always sound deeper to me

 

I was told that the resonator was less restrictive than the mufflers. Has any one replaced the mufflers with straight pipe and left the resonator alone?

 

Not to sound negative, but wasn't this exhaust / muffler thing beat to death in a couple of other threads?

I've got over 11,000 miles on my Magnaflow system since September, and I feel the system sounds very good for the car's image. Not too loud, not too quiet. Very nice V8 rumble near the backside of the car, but I really doubt you can tell it has a V8 if you're riding along side of it. I couldn't hear the car above traffic the other day when my friend gunned the engine for me.

BADDLS1SS and eddiemoney have vids posted showing a couple different options.

No, the car sounds NOTHING like the GMMG (link in my sig) on my Z28SS, not even close (listen to 98Z28's link above to get an idea of what a Z28 sounds like). My Z will scare the **** out of anyone in a 360* radius, the MCSS cannot.

The resonator is there to muffle the 4 cylinder helicopter sound. I wouldn't remove it until you disable the DoD.

With all that said, I've logged 15K miles in 5 months in the MCSS. Absolutely love the car - last 3 drivers were last gen V6 Impalas. The V8 MCSS blows the cars away, can't complain about anything other than the DoD.

Treat yourself to the mufflers at a minimum. I'd personally buy the MF system and put the tips BuffaloSS sourced for me.

Good luck!

 

i cut off the resinator and put on two magnaflow mufflers and love the sound. i had my neighbor drive it down the street and floor and it and it sounds amazing

 

If you can wait until spring, I recently spoke to Corsa. Their catback will be available in March or April. I think I may go that route sionce their tips are the nicest I've seen.

 

Here is my flowmaster.
It has been 4000 miles since I have installed. It is sounding better and better. Mine still has resonator and inside resonance during cruising is minimum.

From inside,
You can also hear my K&N Aircharger sound everytime I rev it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iN1Uv42ZZJk


From outside
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Fl94hZV6zU

 

LMAO....I would not count on Corsa making a cat-back until you actually see one installed.

the below is from memory, but it is pretty close;

back in around '98 or so the LT1 Impala SS crowd contacted Corsa about making a cat-back for the big Caprice cars. Low and behold! Corsa said that the R&D was done on it and they would be making them available in the Spring (sound familiar?).

Spring comes and goes, Corsa hems and haws, finally saying that they were close to production. A year or two goes by. They are contacted again, this time their story is that they are about to BEGIN R&D on the b-body install. It seems that in the two years since they had completed research and developement for the b-body kit, the mounting points and measurements of the cars had changed (presumably some sort of magic growth or shrinkage is at play here as my car sat in the driveway). Unless....just maybe, they had, er....mispoke about the R&D being completed previously.

Anyway, the R&D was due to start any day and then a system would be ready....YES, the next Spring!

Repeat the above story another time or two until last year at this time. Last I read, Corsa was again ready to start R&D and that a system would be forthcoming.

8 years after their initial statement that they were ready to begin production in a few weeks and that everything was all set and there is still no system for the b-body.

Does this mean they won't make one for the w-body? Nope, just proves that the company would rather stroke you by saying 'you are important and we will make a system for you' instead of 'we have no plans to do anything, but we will tell you we are so that you maybe don't buy a competitors cat-back while we decided if we want to produce it or not.'

I hope they do make one, the more aftermarket stuff, the better. Would I believe that company without proof?

Not hardly.

 

wow.. fantastic replies guys.. i think i will check on the magnaflows and leave the rez on.. see what it sounds like and then see about taking the rez off if it needs it.. anyone know the pard # for the 2 magnaflows?

 

Everyone seems to do that...say that it will be out soon...that way die hard consumers will wait for that product forever without going somewhere else. Magnaflow does it, too. They claim the cat-back for the '06-'07 3.5/3.9L is "Coming Soon!"...and the same can be said for the catback for the '04-'05 SS

I'll second the compliment on Corsa's tips. I've been looking for a set to replace the MagnaFlow tips and Kaz just pointed out the Corsa set on the 00-05 Monte. I'm waiting on an eMail back from Corsa to see if they sell them separately. They are gorgeous! If they won't sell them separately, I may end up purchasing the dual 3.5" tip setup for the Mountaineer and cutting off and rewelding the tips onto my tails. It's expensive, though, at $130 through the cheapest place i found it.

 

You can here the magnaflow system on their website.

 

i can't find any sound clips on the 06-07 monte or GXP's yet... not much info on there yet..

 

The monte will sound identical to the impala. The GXp may sound just a little bit different, but just because of the tips.

 

The sound on the MF website is pretty close to reality, based on what I heard today (see other exhaust thread).

 

It is pretty close to reality, however, I think mine has gotten a little throatier after about 2500 miles.