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Hi guys,

Im having a little trouble deciding what muffler best suits my car. I currently purchased a cheap aftermarket stainless steel muffler but i don't like the sound one bit.

Im running dual 2 inch pipes from my extractors with two hotdog resonators and a straight through stainless muffler although i don't like the sound of it, its deep down low and buzzes resonates at about 4k before opening up, i hate that mid rpm drone buzz, anyone know what this is from? Is it the muffler or the resonators creating this? It is a crappy muffler and if that's the problem Im definately going to change it.

My car doesn't have a cat and therefore doesnt have an x pipe or anything like that. Here in Australia all pre 1986 cars that didn't come standard with a cat don't have to have one. So Im kind of leaning towards it being a crappy muffler. It is very annoying, it's like just when you feel the sound opening up it does that crappy buzz resonance.


Im liked how my car sounded with the stock muffler (my Hartge muffler rusted out). How do you guys think my car will sound with dual 2 inch pipes from my Hartge extractors, no mid-section, cat or resonators, just straight through to a stock 325i muffler?

Can someone shed some light on this for me.

Kind Regards,
Ned

Hartge2get wrote:Hi guys,

Im having a little trouble deciding what muffler best suits my car. I currently purchased a cheap aftermarket stainless steel muffler but i don't like the sound one bit.

Im running dual 2 inch pipes from my extractors with two hotdog resonators and a straight through stainless muffler although i don't like the sound of it, its deep down low and buzzes resonates at about 4k before opening up, i hate that mid rpm drone buzz, anyone know what this is from? Is it the muffler or the resonators creating this? It is a crappy muffler and if that's the problem Im definately going to change it.

My car doesn't have a cat and therefore doesnt have an x pipe or anything like that. Here in Australia all pre 1986 cars that didn't come standard with a cat don't have to have one. So Im kind of leaning towards it being a crappy muffler. It is very annoying, it's like just when you feel the sound opening up it does that crappy buzz resonance.


Im liked how my car sounded with the stock muffler (my Hartge muffler rusted out). How do you guys think my car will sound with dual 2 inch pipes from my Hartge extractors, no mid-section, cat or resonators, just straight through to a stock 325i muffler?

Can someone shed some light on this for me.

Kind Regards,
Ned

I may be able to help on a replacement hartge unit, pm me with the bit you need

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On my old hartge h26 the exhaust system was the headers into a x pipe, then straight through pipes into a hartge back box and it sounded very nice indeed in a deep bassy kind of way until you rev'd it and it sounded pretty fruity.

If you can go with the hartge if you can source one from bloom-meister

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