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Ok so i get my exhaust today,its an N1 style catback but its not load at all,i mean like you can barley even hear it,i dont want it to sound all loud but i do want it to have a nice tone to it,wtf is up,will getting a short ram help at all or what

 
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drill a hole in the muffler if you want to the N1 to be louder

 
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its not a real n1 just a knock off of it will this make any difference?

 
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You can try to take some of the stuff on the inside of the muffler out. Then you will get noise. Noise is annoying, you don't want it, trust me.

 
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i dont want noise,i want a deep sound but as of now i dont get anything.

 
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with a civic you wont get a deep sound like you do with mustangs or camaros.

the only sound you will get is a loud weedwacker sound. keep it quiet IMO

 
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maybe they just chopped off your stock muffler and welded the N1-wanabe muffler on... so i'm guessing they did the cheapest job possible and used your stock piping + stock resonator...

and i'm guessing you have an dx/lx/hx...

if my assumptions are correct... then do the following..

to get it louder... change the stock piping to something bigger... 2 1/4 inch should suffice.. anything bigger is useless unless you plan on turboing the car

if you want it really louder, then also consider changing out the stock header to an aftermarket one...


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ok i guess i read it wrong you wrote N1 style CATBACK...

so probably the catback has a resonator built into the piping... if so then get that taken out and replace it with straight-through piping... and if thats not enough loudness for u... then go ahead and get a header.

 
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yea he left the stock resonator in and used 2inch piping,its an lx also

 
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ok... so its not a catback... it was just a muffler...

if you want that extra noise, get that stock resonator out...

 
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Is the exhaust new? I've never owned a new exhaust for our cars before, but doesn't the tone change after break-in?

 
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there isn't a silencer in the muffler is there?

 
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best post ever

 
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I got a new Ractive muffler and just welded the thing on. No noise came out. So i changed the piping and now........once the Vtec kicks in it sounds like the ultimate weedwacker. But i like the setting off car alarms..Only bad thing gettin pulled over by cops ( i just show my PBA cards and they let me go)

 
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you wont get a deep sound unless its a turboed car or a v8

 
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Turbo quites down exhaust sounding level.
lol.

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it is a catback and since ive been driving it around it does sound like i want it now guess i just had to break it in

 
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it has to break in.. give it a few months itll be loud

 
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i didn't read all hte posts, i guess u solved ur problem

 
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looks like its solved.. but if you want it louder after that then get rid of the resonator and/or put a test pipe in.. basicall yget rid of the cat converter