OK so my girlfriend bought a 2.3 ysterday

new 2.3

decent...yeah decent, I thought that didn't look right.
Decent sounding exhaust? As an owner of a 70 Mustang and a 2.3 powered Mustang I can say you will not like the sound of the 2.3.
As my niece says "The vert rumbles and little blue goes poota, poota".
Also different cars have different quirks. You say a 2.3 so that narrows it down some...Mustang? Pinto? Ranger? SVO? Turbo-bird? What year?
Bruce (TX)

trouble areas.... Can she drive a stick? The autos in these cars are Junk. with 140k on it, i would be babying the tranny, and when it goes, swap in a T5.

Dr.

Copy the components in the exhaust part of my sig. The car is not going to roar, but I guarantee it will sound nice. Honestly the car is louder(at low RPMs) than most local V8 'stangs with factory exhaust. The car sounds like a small V8 at idle and low rpms, then sounds like a 6 at midrange then she sounds like a 4 until highway cruising speeds (55 and up)when she just drones loudly.
Also I belive the old school guy who welded up my exhaust "stepped" it. I think he used atleast two different widths of pipe to go from my pre-cat(I have no full size cat, but still legal)to my Flowmaster(should be a 40 series if they did what I said).
Expect to pay around 70 to 80 dollars for a Ranger header, that is the average on Ebay and this is what I believe is responsible for the tone; car sounds like half a 4.6l...
There a several on this Ebay page:
http://search.ebay.com/ranger-heade...0QQfposZ23451QQfsopZ1QQfsooZ1QQfclZ3QQfrppZ50

Hell, I don't think he wants to put that much work/money into it.

I'd recommend just going to a muffler shop and having them throw a single 2 1/4" cat-back on there with a Flowmaster 40. I had that on my old '90 for a couple years and it really sounded good with the otherwise stock exhaust. Course, it probably won't sound quite as cool on an automatic car.