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.