Differance between stainless steel and regular mufflers?

[33188LX]

Can anyone tell me the differance between the sound of say a 304 stainless steel Mac Flowpath muffler and a not stainless steel flowpath muffler. I know there will not be any performance differance, but what about sound? How much different is the sound between the two? Anyone that has either heard both, or have switch between the two, please give me some insight. Thanks for your time.

 

[larrendeuce]

They probably will sound much the same. The design is going to be the same just the materials its made out of. Stainless is going to last longer and look better over the years. Thats why I went with it.

 

[LoudToy958]

No difference in sound. I had the cat non stainless catback, and pickup a set of stainless at swap meet for 65 buck for the pair. Couldn't pass it up. They just look nice if you are ever under the car.

 

[33188LX]

Thanks for the replies.

 

[cevtv]

With stainless you won't hear the sound of rust forming..........

 

[vristang]

In my experience there is a sound difference. Mild steel seems to yield a milder and less pingy tone. I can't explain why (I would think that stainless would be quieter due to its properties), so I very well could be wrong. The problem is there are far too many variables that will affect the sound of the exhaust to form any kind of theory on the audible differences.

Stainless will look better longer, but I really don't care what the exhaust looks like so I saved the money for something else.

 

[jaackal]

after a certain amount of years your going to end up replacing the exhaust systems....i wouldnt waste the money to get stainless unless thats all it came in

 

[cevtv]

after a certain amount of years your going to end up replacing the exhaust systems....i wouldnt waste the money to get stainless unless thats all it came in

Yeah, but I have to drive mine in New England winters...........I wanted it to last as long as possible, with all the road salt.



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[vristang]

In my experience there is a sound difference. Mild steel seems to yield a milder and less pingy tone. I can't explain why (I would think that stainless would be quieter due to its properties), so I very well could be wrong. The problem is there are far too many variables that will affect the sound of the exhaust to form any kind of theory on the audible differences.

Stainless will look better longer, but I really don't care what the exhaust looks like so I saved the money for something else.

I thought about it and I think the stainless exhaust sounds harsher to me is because it has thinner walls. This would not dampen sound waves as well as a thicker material, even if it was more dense.
Any thoughts?

I just quoted myself, how lame.