What's Your Favorite Performance Muffler

[ka9mnx]

I don't care for loud, raspy, annoying and droning exhaust systems. I go for stainless cat-back systems. The Ranger, Dodge Van and F150 all have Gibson cat-back systems and they work well for me.

The only stainless cat-back for the 4Runner is from Borla and everything I've read say it makes the 3.4l sound awful. It only needed a muffler so I replaced it with a Walker stainless. A little louder than the stock muffler which is nice.

 

[spasm3]

Magna flow glass pack, longest that will fit

 

[slacktide_bitog]

I like anything that's 304 stainless, so you don't have to deal with rust

Borla is good. 304 stainless.
Trubendz 304 with a Borla muffler is also good and also much cheaper than the actual Borla catback.

For some cars, you can get a cheap exhaust on eBay that is 304

Magnaflow is 409, but they seem to have the widest coverage and offer a performance exhaust for more cars than other mfrs have.

 

[manicrodder]

Any muffler that's hooked up to a big block V8.

Flowmaster 40's make everything sound like a Stang to me. My hearing again.

 

[4WD]

For my 5.3L Canyon - ordered new a SST Walker Quiet Flow built for an older 454 cid truck … larger and more capacity - yet plenty of room to weld it in … Only heard it when on the gas hard …

 

[1uz_4me]

Magnaflow. Only issue is they'd be louder after an HPDE weekend

 

[stranger706]

Borla catback on the GT. Not a fan of loud exhaust. The Borla is perfect deep tone with no drone.

 

[wtd]

I've had a Borla Cat-back on my 98 chevy K1500 since 1999 and really like it. It does have some drone though.

I have a Flowmaster cat-back on my 98 chevy K3500 with the 454 and it sounds good. This system uses a 50 series flowmaster muffler.

I have Ford Performance single tip GT500 mufflers with resonator delete on my 14 Mustang GT and it sounds very good. My favorite sounding exhaust out of all of my vehicles.

I have some generic turbo mufflers on my big block 70 Monte Carlo and they sound pretty good.

My fiancée's youngest son has a 97 GMC K1500 which a local shop installed duel exhaust using a duel in duel out 44 series Flowmaster and it sounds very good. I think it sounds better than my 98 K1500 with the Borla system on it.

 

[wemay]

Borla

Although when i owned a Ralliart Turbo AWD, this Magnaflow axle-back sounded very nice. Never loud or droning.

 

[GoldDot40]

I run a single in/dual out Magnaflow with headers and offroad Y-pipe on my '02 Silverado. Got a deep mellow tone at idle and cruise. Gets pretty wicked at WOT. Sounds great. It's a very good free flowing system that compliments the cold air intake and custom tune. I opted for the 22" long version to tone the decibel level down due to the missing cats.

My '79 Camaro has a Flowmaster transverse muffler under it (maximum ground clearance) and I honestly don't like it. Flowmaster is barely even a "performance" muffler. They flow very poorly vs the vast majority of the true performance mufflers out there. I am going to replace that complete exhaust system with a vehicle specific Pypes Exhaust kit with 2½ inch X-pipe and mandrel bends with a transverse muffler and tailpipes. They're up there among the top contenders in regards to exhaust scavenging and true performance.

 

[ad244]

Unfortunately the video is kind of useless. Terrible audio quality. Did they use a flip phone for the mic?

You said it.

Everybody around Phoenix just cuts off their exhaust anyways for that bespoke race car sound.

 

[01rangerxl]

Dynomax Super Turbo​

I had a Dynomax Super Turbo cat back single exit kit on a 2.5L I4 Ranger and really liked it. On the Ranger forums I visited at the time it was widely regarded as the only kit that didn't sound "ricey" on the I4s, plus the price was good.

 

[Lyman]

I had a Dynomax Super Turbo cat back single exit kit on a 2.5L I4 Ranger and really liked it. On the Ranger forums I visited at the time it was widely regarded as the only kit that didn't sound "ricey" on the I4s, plus the price was good.

I ran a pair of them on an old Chevy Pickup. Had a 327 V8 and it was music to my ears. One bank of exhaust exited on each side of the truck.

 

[carloz]

I personally like the sound of Magnaflow and Borla.

 

[DuckRyder]

DynoMax UltraFlo

 

[ofelas]

My favorite performance muffler is an atmospheric turbo.

 

[BLND1]

Open pipes on a a racecar or stick with OEM thank you very much. My sleeping baby appreciates it.

 

[Silver]

Dynomax Super Turbo

It's not obnoxious, and even quietens down at higher rpm's on many engines. The inside pathway is curved to avoid uhh... I can't recall the word... the jamming up of exhaust pulses.

 

[Cujet]

I had a Dynomax Super Turbo cat back single exit kit on a 2.5L I4 Ranger and really liked it. On the Ranger forums I visited at the time it was widely regarded as the only kit that didn't sound "ricey" on the I4s, plus the price was good.

The Dynomax Super Turbo is one of the finest sounding mufflers on the planet. It's a masterpiece!

I really dislike the hollow sound of the chambered Flowmasters.