Can anyone explain to me whats the purpose of a chamber muffler? I know a lot of domestic used them but how will it sound and flow on a Civic? Also will chamber flow more restricted than straight through or will be the same? Is it quieter than straight through?

 

My Magnaflow XL3 chambered muffler sounds awesome on my civic. It flows good, but for obvious reasons a straight through muffler is going to flow better than anything else. Thats not to say though that a chambered muffler is really going to hurt you though. I chose it because I wanted a muffler that was going to keep the tone down a little bit but still sound really nice. Here is what Magnaflow has to say about it:

MagnaFlow XL 3 Chamber Mufflers use a unique combination of large diameter perforated tubing and strategically placed sound baffles to reduce unwanted resonance and help your engine create horsepower.

The sound baffles tune the sound waves using calibrated tuning gate openings that allow portions of the waves to pass through. These tuned waves reflect off the back wall of the muffler and cancel out unwanted harsher sounds.

The large diameter perforated core eliminates the flow restrictions of a louvered style core. A careful balance between perforation size/spacing and the baffle tuning gate make for a great 3 chamber performance muffler.

 

Anymore input on this?

 

what if you get tha whole cat back syatem and then put a resonator??? thats what i did and the noise went down but the sound is really deep

 

Well I want it even more quite than that.

 

Indeed even with my megan catback it still sounds noisey inside the car, not as loud as my old custom though.

 

i can hear my intake louder than the exhaust, well its a custom exhaust, and i decided to put the resonator, its not loud at all maybe ill get a vid and ill show you i dont know when im goona get around it but... ill try

 

anymore input on this?