well my day started out great. i got outta school and headed straight to the muffler shop to get me a new exhaust put on.my gf gave me the money for our 2yr anniversary. i had a flowmaster 40 with stock (i think 1 3/4) on it to begin with. but it sounded stock and i wanted somethin a littel louder, im still a youngin so dont flame me. anyways i got a magnaflow hi flow cat, with 2.25 inch pipe comein off of it dumped about 4 inches in front of the back axel. its sounds AWESOME. i knew it would sound better but didnt think it would sound as good as it does. my bro used to have a 4.3 s-10 straight piped with a gutted cat and it sounds just like it did. theres no ricer sound whatso ever. but its LOUD. to loud. but ill get to the point.. i got a ticket. 5 hours after i had it put on. im little mad. so it looks like it wont sound good anymore.

 

That sucks. I hate dumped exhausts, they resonate off the underside of the truck and vibrate your brains out!

chop off the dump and run it straight back under your rear bumper. It'l sound MUCH better and the law will be happy..

 

will that quietin it down a bit? i absolutely love the sound off it. it dont sound like a 4 banger lol. yes the cab noise is about rediculoous. mmy girlfriend got mad cuz i couldnt hear her talkin hahah. in va teh inspection shop told me u dont have to have a muffler as long as teh pipe comes atleast 6inches past teh cab, and u cant have a camper top or have anybody in the bed

 

Well It depends on your local laws. Here you need a muffler, but people get away with it when their exhaust is done right (full length and no leaks).

Adding the extra tube will quiet it down a little, and it will change the note some. I would probibly throw a glasspack on it to keep johnny law happy...

I did the exhaust on my girlfriends 22re 4runner. I put a glasspack on and then left it dumping out right at the axle. Man, that thing was almost unbearable! I fitted a tailpipe and it sounds great!
And call me crazy if you will, but after I got the tailpipe into place (1 3/4") I swear, it had more low end power. Like seat in the pants power. Didnt resonate like a tin can anymore aswell

If you want loud then keep the 2.25" pipe, but I would probibly go with 2" to keep things flowing good...

 

yea teh cop said it wasnt because i didnt have a muffler. he said it was paste teh cab plenty but he said it was jsut to loud. ill either run it straight out the back with no muffler or do a glass pack

 

heres some pics of it i tried to do a video so yall could here it but the frickin sound on my camera wasnt workin. the pics aint to good cuz it was dark.

 

well i got it fixed today. got a glasspack put on it with 2.25in pipe goin all the way back (no tip). to make a long story short.. it sounds like a riced out civic at high rpms, but at low u cant even here it. it makes me mad

 

Aww that sucks! Take out the glasspack and put a straight pipe in?

 

take the glass pack out and put the flowmaster back in behind the cat.
sheesh.

 

i would do this but i done sold the flowmaster to one of my buddies. its done on his truck so thats a no

yea im gonna do this at school sometime this week. i already got somebody wantin to buy my glasspack

 

Cool.

But just so you know, your 22re aint never gonna sound like a 4.3L

I wish my 3.0 sounded like my friends 4.0L Ranger...

 

well one could cut the downpipe and route the two pipes to converters and mufflers and then it would have a nice 'lope' to the engine sound.

 

Im not the kind to do exhaust work if it hurt my performance

I think a 1uz tucked under the hood single 2.5" into dual 2" pipes out the back will growl nicely

 

dead serious. it sounded like or close to my bros old 4.3L it was loud.. and didnt sound like a 22re. it may of jsut been me. but it felt like it had alot more bottom end with the glasspack and 2.25 all the way out then when it jsut had the cat and 2.25 dumepd before the axle

 

You need the back pressure for torque.

 

yea thats what i was trying to say say haha. but i can feel a perdy difference with it now

 

what i do with glass packs is cut it in half, take the packing out, re weld it back together, dump some used oil in it and burn it to burn out any excess packing. If you want more to come out of it spray water inside of it after burning the oil. It will crack the inside grates.

 

yea my shop teacher told me thats what he did to his. im probaly gonna just cut it off and put in a piece of straight pipe cuz i already bouaht a piece. but i aint sure yet