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I'm pretty sure I only passed inspection last year out of the good nature of the inspection technicians, after I'd tried everything they'd suggested (RXP, warm engine, etc.).
I've lightly lurked on TN for a while, and I know to use the Search button before asking questions. The search returns for "Exhaust" are massive and after a week of combing through the results I'm not finding as much Gen 3-specific information as I'd prefer.
Being a '92 ES300 (yeah, Camry) I'm looking for your experiences, preferences, warnings and favorite threads about optimal exhausts for our car. Help a brutha out?
I have the 3.0L 3VZ-FE V6.
I'm pondering a header-back exhaust system. I'm highly certain that the cats are now gone after these many years and I'm looking at an exhaust overhaul.
I've been reading about how a properly custom-made y-pipe can provide a horsepower bump.
I prefer a low rumble to a can of angry bees.
I'd prefer to avoid a system that drones during interstate travel.
I'm not under any misimpressions that a header-back exhaust is going to give me 50+ horsepower, or even half that.
Thanks in advance for your assistance and courtesy.
A y pipe would have to be custom as you said, because no one really made anything for the 3vz y pipe to my knowledge... I think it would all have to be custom. What I would do to match what you are looking for would be 2.5" mendrel bent pipe with a high flow cat and a resonator back to a magnaflow muffler. I have found that the magnaflow droned a bit on my 4 cylinder, but they sound very nice and deep on a v6. Thats the route I would go.
For low rumble I've heard the magnaflow exhausts are great. I went with that myself just havent installed it yet. I guess the best way would be to jump on youtube and see what sounds you like.
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well slow the big thing is to figure out what emessions you failed. Then you can pretty easily track down the cause of it.
AFA y-pipes, I'm taking a break for a month. It took me months too long to finish MarkE's (Thanks for hanging out man lol! I'll make it up to you when I'm rich :P). Plus, I have some eye damaging going on right now & welding, cutting, grinding is not going to happen right now... I can bearly stand to be in a room with any light.
The only thing that will change the sound for the major worse, are how thick the walls are on the cat (or test pipe), the flex sections, and if there are exhaust leaks. The "bees in a can" most commonly comes from using cheap flex sections & thin pipe on a test pipe. Which is what you'll hear very often in the Maxima (or any VQ crowd) when people buy lower end y-pipes (budget) that are made out of thin wall mild-steel with cheap flex. They undercut the price of others by 66%, but the penality is the bees in a can sound on most of them.
It's no different than me & you going to Lowes, buying $30 worth of 2" EMT conduit & 2.15" fence post to build a y-pipe out of. Works, but it's cheap as shit & the sound definately bleesd through / vibrates down the pipe & makes it tinny.
After that, keep some form of pre-muffle (Resonator) on the car. It will mellow out the exhaust sound alittlebit. Doing so will eliminate raspy, and tinny sounds on throttle over-run & decelleration. Also helps the nasty sounds engines get while cruising at certian rpm levels in their powerband.
AFA mufflers... My choice is Aeroturbine #1, Borla #2. Neither are for the shy of pocketbook. Both will run $200 a pop for the higher end muffler lines. Behind those magnaflow is ok. Their better mufflers sound exactly like Tanabe's mufflers... Just for a fraction of the cost. (super gay)
Pipe size.... Depends on what you're looking for overall, but 2.5" from the merge back, or 3" from the merge back. Either one is fine. Gunna have alittle more top-end power on the 3" back.
And for you, head-back giving 50bhp, na. but you might could get half that if the engine were in good shape. 25bhp would be about 19whp on an A/T.
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