if you are on a budget, go to a custom muffler shop get a magnaflow muffler and some piping for just around 200 bucks for piping and a exhaust.

not rice

 

It's an exhaust that doesn't improve the performance(may actually knick it some) but makes your car sound like ****. If you're sixteen years old and want to **** off your neighbors, it's terrific. If you're serious about motoring, or sane, it's not for you.

 

i say just get the muffler... and later on just get a str8 pipe... done deal...

 

There is a guaranteed way to make your car sound like **** if i ever heard one...Heres the deal, Mufflers sound like crap, axlebacks generally sound like crap and dont net you and hp gains, straight pipes always sound like **** on a civic, and N1/N1-style exhausts will almost always sound ricey. Spend some money on a real exhaust system (Skunk2, Tanabe, Greddy, Magnaflow, Megan Racing usually, Apexi (not an N1 if you want it to sound good...even though the N1 adds some nice power and is a good exhaust system)) and you won't have to worry about your car sounding ricey.

 

just because you have a full cat back evo exhaust doesn't mean that everything else is rice, and everything else sounds like crap. some setups do sound terrible if they're not done right. i have just a muffler welded on from a shop and it sounds just as good if not better than my friends catbacks and axlebacks. mine has a deep tone and you should only get a raspy tone if the muffler was installed incorrectly. but for the sound, catbacks probably are the way to go, but for the money, who wants to spend around $500 on a full system that only gains a few hp and a little sound? .........just my opinion.

 

I'm not trying to say that full catback is the way to go. I have a friend with 2.25 inch mandrel bent piping, a resanonator, and a ws2 muffler he put together himself and it sounds amazing, for cheaper than mine cost. I'm just trying to say that a cheap-o muffler with a straight pipe welded on will usually sound miserable. Now if this is a nice muffler, and it is done correctly it may sound great, but the way he stated it made it sound as if a straight pipe and any cheap muffler is the answer...

 

i have a cheap ebay muffler (~$50 shipped) and it sounds amazing just welded on by iteself, so as opposed to what you said, cheap stuff CAN sound good.

 

Someoneput a bulletthis thread already...

 

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i need a meowback...