no muffler

Decipha · Post by **Decipha** » Thu Jul 06, 2006 1:01 am

a friend of mine has a 97 dodge intrepid with a 3.0L engine, he cut the muffler off but left the cat and it sounds damm good... i was wondering if anyone has done this with a 3.1L ? i was thinking maybe cutting mine off to see how it sounded but i'd hate to have to go thru all the work if it only sounds like crap

speedygtz · Post by **speedygtz** » Thu Jul 06, 2006 1:56 pm

mine fell off

i get pulled over becouse it was to loud but hell yea it sounded awsom

hmmm..... maybe if i hadnt gone around piping all my freinds walking home from school i would not have gotten pulled over

Decipha · Post by **Decipha** » Thu Jul 06, 2006 7:04 pm

mufflers coming off tomorrow night

BerettaLove32 · Post by **BerettaLove32** » Fri Jul 07, 2006 8:11 pm

Don't straight pipe a 3.1 it sounds like crap. It's loud but it honestly sounds like you have a huge hole in a muffler. Buy a muffler that gives it some tone, like a Borla, or dynomax or something. Straight piped 3.1s are reckneckish.

Decipha · Post by **Decipha** » Sat Jul 08, 2006 12:24 am

are you sure... my friend has a 3.0L dodge intrepid with a straight pipe right after the cat and it sounds just like a bad *** mustang... its very nice and deep has a very very low rumble

HateMyAuto · Post by **HateMyAuto** » Sat Jul 08, 2006 6:28 pm

I've had pipes disconnect before the muffler on both the GT with a 2.8 and the Z26 with the 3100, it was loud, but it was also ugly. Not a pleasant rumble, more like an "oh my god please stop staring at my car" rumble.

Decipha · Post by **Decipha** » Sat Jul 08, 2006 8:18 pm

ouuu thats not good guess imma have to go with an exhaust then... 2.5 all the way back new hi flow car and terminator muffler

BerettaLove32 · Post by **BerettaLove32** » Mon Jul 10, 2006 6:24 pm

Get a Borla turbo. May cost over $100 but you'll LOVE the sound it will make on your 3.1 and it's stainless so it will last a good amount fo time.

Z26Beretta315 · Post by **Z26Beretta315** » Tue Jul 11, 2006 12:17 am

I haven't taken the muffler off my Z26 yet, but I'm going to agree that a straight pipe might not be a good idea. I would expect the exhaust without a muffler to have that loud popping/chattering noise most modern cars have. Your friend has a Dodge vehicle with a Dodge Motor, every engine has its own voice. For example, no engine makes that sweet sound that a 6 cylinder flathead motor with a straight pipe will make.

My z26 has a blown muffler, was rotted on one side (fixed with insta-steel puddy) and the seam on the opposite side is blown. The car has a nice idle sound, and a nice sound if you dig into the gas pedal, but general driving makes me kind of embarrassed. I have no popping/chattering noise though, and I've tended to drive by digging into the gas from take off and letting it go once I reached the speed I want, and let it idle again. Only way to make it sound nice.

HateMyAuto · Post by **HateMyAuto** » Tue Jul 11, 2006 2:07 pm

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BerettaLove32 · Post by **BerettaLove32** » Tue Jul 11, 2006 2:49 pm

Oh well then on the 3100 I have a Borla Turbo and even with the resonator taken off you can't even hear it. Still don't straight pipe it. For a 3100 I wouldn't buy anything more expensive than a glasspack for some sound but that's just me.

Decipha · Post by **Decipha** » Tue Jul 11, 2006 3:39 pm

hatemyauto... i've been told the 3.1 and 3100 engines have completely different sounds and i know this from the 5.0 ford and 5.0 gm engines, they are very distinctive even with straight pipes, as for the borla turbo... i was really interested in the flowtech terminator... i've been told by a very reliable source that it sounds incredible on the 3100s does any know to back this up?

Decipha · Post by **Decipha** » Tue Jul 11, 2006 3:41 pm

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i get pulled over becouse it was to loud but hell yea it sounded awsom

hmmm..... maybe if i hadnt gone around piping all my freinds walking home from school i would not have gotten pulled over

can you compare it to something?

leadfoot93 · Post by **leadfoot93** » Wed Jul 19, 2006 11:15 pm

i went with a cherrybomb turbo II i got from my local fleetfarm. It's not a glasspack sounds good and if you don't like it so what it only cost 18 big ones.

blindmandesigns · Post by **blindmandesigns** » Sun Oct 08, 2006 7:48 pm

I had a celebrity and the muffler fell off... due to the awesome lopey idle due to a bad missfire it sounded like a V8 with a big cam in that could barely idle... ha

It was cool for the first 2 minutes then... it just sucked because my ears would be ringing after a drive on the highway at 65mph.

just get a nice flowing muffler and an exhaust cutout installed where the pipe bends around the driver side when it wraps around the gastank... makes a very nice sound

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