Ok, So I wanted louder, deep muscle tone, exhaust. I just didnt want to have the neighbors complain. So, I decided against glass packs. I have the 3.8 L V6. I knew from the begining I was not going to get amazing sound.

I had a midas remove my resonator and put on 2 polished stainless steel magnaflow mufflers and some sweet tips.

I feel like i am driving around a deep sounding import car. Its way better than stock, dont get me wrong. It's just not anywhere close to what I was hoping for. Did i make the wrong choice in getting good looking mufflers insted of flowmasters?

That being said, I don't have the money to change anything now, so I was thinking is there anyway to get the most out of what I got? I really don't want to have to save all of that money again just to changed something I already spent a ton on. topics i can think of are CAI, U-Bend Delete, High flow cat.... I don't know about any of that stuff and what it would do sound wise.

THANKS!

 

 

i know what its like to spend all the money you saved up for exhaust and to not be happy with it. but over all...your MOST LIKELY gunna have to save up and change your exhaust. try going to youtube.com and type in something like, "02 monte carlo ss exhaust" (6 cylinder) and see all the different things you can do. and you should post a video of what you did to your exhaust so other people can decide if they want that sound. just a suggestion.

 

do you have a CAI? It will help the sound a lot, make it a deeper growl.

 

No, no CAI yet, I had heard that if I got one it will help the sound.... I didn't know if that was true.

 

can you post a sound clip of it?? i'd be curious to hear what it sounds like....i was very iffy on the exhaust when i had my monte, and i decided not to change it for fear of not liking it, i hadn't heard any 3.8l that i liked the sound of overly much

 

Mine when I first had it done sounded raspy as hell, could barely talk over it on the way home. It started toning down and now it is much more mellow and is only raspy for the first second or two after startup. I don't know if this has to do with the mufflers themselves or the car computer reprograming itself.

As for your muscle car tone that you wanted, if you're trying to get that old school V8 sound then I'll let you know that it's damn near impossible with these newer V6s to get the same sound as they are different engines.

 

either way i think your car looks pretty bad A$$ and should sound ok.

 

I've got a single polished magnaflow on my monte- the only time it sounds good is at idle, otherwise it sounds like poo...

 

the cia will help alot in the sound a deeper sound for what you have put on it helped out alot with my 7'th gen. when i got the cia for it all i had was a wiered sounding exaughst it sounds like i have a v8 instead of a v6. but i retuned every thing after the add ons because of higher in put and out put. every sensor on mine needed to be adjusted for the higher flowing air going in and out of the motor had to take it to a performance shop to relearn the comp because my car is to new for the tuners still so good luck