So in April I picked up a noise violation ticket after only six hours of having an off-road h-pipe installed.
After that, I drove carefully enough and didn't get nailed by anymore police. But I've had to put off fixing the exhaust until the last month and a half or so because I was broke until I started working full time.
So far, I've spent the following:
-Bassani Catted X-Pipe - $350
-Labor to have it towed to an exhaust shop and welded together because the guy before me messed up the hangers - $125
-Labor to have a technician fix the massive exhaust leak which was created by the guy who installed the X-pipe - $70
So today I took it to the police check-off station to get it approved, and the lady didn't even bother pulling out the dB meter - just told me it was way too loud and that it wasn't gonna fly. I was tempted to tell her that if she had compared it to how it sounded 6 weeks earlier, I would have had that ticket signed in about 3 seconds, but I didn't want to give attention to what else I have done to the car...
So I went back to that exhaust shop where I originally had the X-pipe installed, and he recommends Magnaflow mufflers - he wants $116 per muffler and a labor fee of $45 per muffler to install for a total of like $344. He can have it ready to go Wednesday by four, which is plenty of time for me to get it checked off, but I'm already in this over 500 bucks, and I wanted to ask two questions from all of you...
A) Assuming my current setup with 2-chamber flowmasters, would switching to two magnaflow mufflers kill the sound enough to get it passed off? Do the prices listed above sound reasonable? I saw the custom job he had to do on my x-pipe to make it fit and it was some pretty amazing work. I really didn't wanna stick super turbos in there, but you gotta do what you gotta do I guess.
B) Is there anything I can do to quiet this thing enough to pass it in its current form?
If I can't get it passed, I'm gonna have to go into court on Friday morning and beg the judge for an extension. Anyone have any ideas? Thanks for reading.
After that, I drove carefully enough and didn't get nailed by anymore police. But I've had to put off fixing the exhaust until the last month and a half or so because I was broke until I started working full time.
So far, I've spent the following:
-Bassani Catted X-Pipe - $350
-Labor to have it towed to an exhaust shop and welded together because the guy before me messed up the hangers - $125
-Labor to have a technician fix the massive exhaust leak which was created by the guy who installed the X-pipe - $70
So today I took it to the police check-off station to get it approved, and the lady didn't even bother pulling out the dB meter - just told me it was way too loud and that it wasn't gonna fly. I was tempted to tell her that if she had compared it to how it sounded 6 weeks earlier, I would have had that ticket signed in about 3 seconds, but I didn't want to give attention to what else I have done to the car...
So I went back to that exhaust shop where I originally had the X-pipe installed, and he recommends Magnaflow mufflers - he wants $116 per muffler and a labor fee of $45 per muffler to install for a total of like $344. He can have it ready to go Wednesday by four, which is plenty of time for me to get it checked off, but I'm already in this over 500 bucks, and I wanted to ask two questions from all of you...
A) Assuming my current setup with 2-chamber flowmasters, would switching to two magnaflow mufflers kill the sound enough to get it passed off? Do the prices listed above sound reasonable? I saw the custom job he had to do on my x-pipe to make it fit and it was some pretty amazing work. I really didn't wanna stick super turbos in there, but you gotta do what you gotta do I guess.
B) Is there anything I can do to quiet this thing enough to pass it in its current form?
If I can't get it passed, I'm gonna have to go into court on Friday morning and beg the judge for an extension. Anyone have any ideas? Thanks for reading.
) on my car with another picture of my license plate to prove that it was my car. I also took a reciept in of the muffler INSTALLATION that was dated after the citation to prove I "did something about it". Now I had documentation of the mufflers "max" db (even though Im pretty sure the rating thats listed on the site is at idle AND with a catted mid pipe 
), I had proof that they were in fact on my car, and I had documentation that I had them professionally installed. The judge too one look at the stuff and threw out the case. Fight it and go in prepared and you should be fine 
quiet at idle but open up around 2500 
