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Free flowing but not terribly loud muffler for a V6 - recommendations?

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Since we're keeping the wife's Suzuki I'm going to do some work on it I was putting off. One bit of this is a better breathing muffler. Suzuki, like GM, Ford, and everyone else lately, puts these 3' long garbage can sized mufflers on the vehicle so you can't even hear it running when it's at idle. On our last Suzuki like it I put a Magnaflow muffler on it and there was a noticeable seat of the pants increase. Not a blower or turbo but definitely there. Amazing what some free breathing can do to a vehicle.:D
Only problem was it was a bit loud. I didn't mind it but the wife did and has forbade me from doing that to this one. Wouldn't want to deafen the dogs ya know.;)

Anyways, what's out there that isn't terribly loud but flows well? I'm thinking something along the lines of a Flowmaster 50 or 60 series for sound but not a fan of those. All the baffles don't help flow much..but then again anything would flow better than what we have.

Anyways, it's a 2.7L rev happy V6 so who's got recommendations?
Oh, no recommending Corsa or other high dollar mufflers as I can't afford that.




BTW, anyone know of any sites where you can hear a variety of exhausts? I used to go to ExhaustSoundClips but they seem to be dead.
 
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a friend of mine put a flowmaster on a toyota 22R(4 cyl) and i think it sounds pretty good, but that might be louder than your looking for.
 
Hooker aero chambers would probably sound good on it, not really loud when cruising but sounds good when ya get on it
 
Dad had a Flowmaster 50 Series on his Heep and it didnt sound bad. You could only really tell when you started it up. I have Magnaflows on my Mazda and like the way they sound.
 
Just a random idea: how about a stock muffler off a V-8 vehicle from a junkyard. It's hard to beat OEM for quietness and many of them are stainless now. Just look for something with large pipe. Or if you have room, run two stock mufflers in parallel.
 
Room...hah! It's a Suzuki remember.


Anybody running Gibson or Borla mufflers on something smaller than a V8?
 
my cousin runs a Borla exhaust on his Hyundai car. Not really that loud and i think u might like it :dunno:

WHy don't you like the flowmasters? Only problem i have with them is every fox body mustang has to run the same exact exhaust around here :doah:
 
That's the reason along with the baffles not being that free flowing. Look through a Magnaflow and some others down to a $20 Maremont Cherry Bomb and you will see straight through to the other side. Nothing in the way at all. Look through a Flowmaster and you'll see darkness because there's multiple baffles in the way.
Freer flowing than stock garbage can mufflers? Sure. Free flowing...not exactly. There's a reason they have a nickname...Slowmasters.

Around here (Michigan in general) every other bone stock Z71 and pickup in General has a Flowmaster exhaust on it. I had a 40 series Delta Flow 3" on my '92 Blazer K1500 and it sounded pretty good but when I got home I realized it sounded like EVERYONE else's trucks.
However as I said in the first post ANYTHING would breathe better than the stock muffler and I like the few clips of the 60 series I've heard so far.

Just remembered my buddy has a Borla on his I6 Jeep TJ. Have to give him a call. I've ridden in it twice and can't recall much noise at all actually.
 
I know it wont sound the same, but from what the other Mazda guys said, the Borlas are louder than the Magnaflows.

I agree about the Flowmasters. I have them on my Blazer and it sounds good but I wish I had waited for the Dynomax.
 
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