Hey guys, my exhaust is getting to the point to where it needs to be replaced.

My truck has the original OEM exhaust and I would like to open it up and make it 'burble' a little bit. What is a good combination for the 3vz-e engine? I'm not looking to put headers and a whole lot of extras on there that cost too much. I'm looking to have an exhaust note that is not too annoying yet when I get on it the exhaust will sound good.

I was thinking that I'd go with the stock diameter piping from the cat back to the muffler and then widen that up a little bit. I'd like to have dual exhaust, but that's not in my budget right now. SI/SO would be just fine with me.

Flowmaster? MagnaFlow? Glasspack? CherryBomb? Borla?

What's the consensus on your opinions?

 

I've heard the Jardine cat-back is good. I think you can get it from truckperformance.com. I wouldn't open the exhaust up too much as it will kill your'e torque.

 

Check out the exhaust round-up page here on the forum - it will give you a ton of info.

 

That's what I'm trying to avoid is killing my torque. The 3.slow is bad enough as it is and I would like to keep that low-end as much as possible, especially because I don't rev over 3500 RPM's.

I'm going to go check that exhaust page and see what there is for information there.

Thanks fellas.

 

I bought a flowmaster off of Ebay for $60 shipped to me. I've dealt with the seller a few times so I know he is a good seller. Then I payed a local muffler shop $100 to weld up 2.5" pipe cat back with the muffler. So I got my exhaust done for $160 and a little bit of time. I'm very happy with the rumble and if you don't want it as loud the seller has 50 series as well. I believe his name was Jon3x, just look up flowmaster on Ebay and you will find him. Good luck.

 

I had the local exhaust shop put a high flow cat on mine with a normal muffler and it helped. A little less back pressure and still maintaining my torque. It sounds a little throaty, but not obnoxious.

Martin

 

Thanks for the help guys. I was a lil apprehensive about going with Flowmaster as they are generally designed for V8's in mind. I had a Flowmaster on my Miata and it was great, but that's a totally different engine. I think that's what I'm going to go with is the Flowmaster 50 series.