Many of these 3"-5" exhausts the Ricers are slapping onto their cars, besides being obnoxiously loud, are also causing annoying drone and resonance INSIDE their cars. This gets old and tiresome pretty fast.

There is now a fix available http://www.darkicedesigns.c...d=10&url=%2Fshop.php

Makes you wonder why they bothered with the big bore exhaust in the first place

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Anyone have ricer tips on a fiero? I bet it would sound good

quote Originally posted by 87antuzzi: Anyone have ricer tips on a fiero? I bet it would sound good

i would hope not! that's defacing a Fiero!!!! it would sound like dogshit!

There are plenty of riced out Fieros.

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My Build Thread

So... You put the big exhaust on, usually in increased pipe diamaeter out to the large bore tip, to reduce backpressure and allow your exhaust system to flow better for increased horsepower. That's the idea right?

So... When you get tired of the louder sound... You put this disc in that reduces the exhaust flow by 75%... Thus increasing your back pressure and making all that work to increase horsepower null... Right?

quote Originally posted by Khw: ... You put this disc in that reduces the exhaust flow by 75%...

That disc certainly has a small hole in it. Likely back to the stock exhaust pipe size.

quote Originally posted by 87antuzzi: Anyone have ricer tips on a fiero? I bet it would sound good

I don't know if it's a "ricer" muffler, but I have a 3A Racing stainless muffler on my BMW. Before that it was on an '88 4 cyl. Fiero (on it when I got it). Sounded (sounds) great on both cars. It's throaty, but not real loud & dosen't resonate in the car. They both had (has) the catalytic converter.
The BMW is here, but you can't see the muffler very well. The POS Kodak digital quit, or I would get some better pics of it for you. http://angelonearth.net/BMW.html
~ Paul
aka "Tha Driver"

not all canister mufflers sound like complete garbage

This isn't anything new. A lot of 'fart cans' that you buy come with silencers. Probably the reason why you don't see it is that all the guys that buy them just never put them on.

quote Originally posted by 87antuzzi: Anyone have ricer tips on a fiero? I bet it would sound good

Considering that most Fieros stock now sound pretty loud, it would probably sound pretty bad. Like mixing gurgle exhaust and a Honda with dual exhaust together.

quote Originally posted by FieroFiend: not all canister mufflers sound like complete garbage

This is correct. They can sound good when done correctly, such as having a full matching exhaust with correct matching resonators. Just bolting a muffler up to exhaust will make it sound bad.

quote Originally posted by 87antuzzi: Anyone have ricer tips on a fiero? I bet it would sound good

Not exactly sure what a "ricer" tip is, but I had some concern about my mufflers sounding like buzz cans since they look very similar to what I've seen on small imports that sound like that. I purchased my mufflers from Advance Autoparts, they did not come with silencers but because of the large bore I felt there would be a need so I tracked a set down on Ebay. To my surprise as demonstrated in probably the video before the last, (last linked to below) in my 3900 thread, the silencers made the mufflers sound louder and poorer in quality. As to the over all sound quality I'm very happy with it, the best demo to me is the second run at the beginning of the video; http://videos.streetfire.ne...h-without_680592.htm

You can see the mufflers in my thread which have about a 2.25" straight threw bore. They're pretty tame as far as loudness goes in my oppinion. The rest of the drive after the first to runs was without mufflers.

[This message has been edited by Joseph Upson (edited 06-09-2009).]

When it comes to exhaust pipe diameter, bigger is not necessarily better.
Unless the engine is a gas turbine, the exhaust gases are emitted in pulses. Maintaining the inertia of the exhaust gas flow is essential reducing back pressure.
Intuitively you might think that having one big pipe for each cylinder would give you the least back pressure but you’d be wrong.
A properly designed exhaust system will produce pressure at the exhaust port that is less than atmospheric, this effect being the result of the inertia of the exhaust gases from all of the cylinders.
The effect of these big coffee can mufflers has probably never been dyno’d but I’d be surprised if they provide any power benefit whatsoever. It is more likely that they increase back pressure.

quote Originally posted by gem1138: When it comes to exhaust pipe diameter, bigger is not necessarily better. Unless the engine is a gas turbine, the exhaust gases are emitted in pulses. Maintaining the inertia of the exhaust gas flow is essential reducing back pressure. Intuitively you might think that having one big pipe for each cylinder would give you the least back pressure but you’d be wrong. A properly designed exhaust system will produce pressure at the exhaust port that is less than atmospheric, this effect being the result of the inertia of the exhaust gases from all of the cylinders. The effect of these big coffee can mufflers has probably never been dyno’d but I’d be surprised if they provide any power benefit whatsoever. It is more likely that they increase back pressure.

Now you did it. Confusing the issue with the correct facts about exhaust tuning.

for the record, the super trapp exhaust mufflers/tips use discs and plates to tune the exhaust, they work very nicely when installed and setup properly, but they are not what are put on the ricers.

edit to add the following is a joke:
The correct fix for a fart can is a hose from the end of it into the passenger compartment. that way I might get to sleep at night when they like to road race down the parkway. the sirens are much quieter than the exhausts.
As far as noise in the car, they could never hear it over the 2000w sub woofer systems anyway, so what use is the plate?
End of joke.

[This message has been edited by tjm4fun (edited 06-09-2009).]

typical ricer fix to a problem
fyi - loud doesnt = more power

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87 Fiero GT 5sp with Vortec L35 4300 Turbocharged V6
Bully Stage 2 clutch
Syclone intake manifold and engine management with Moates adapter and chip burner
Air/water intercooler and Devil's Own progressive water/alky injection
50lb injectors, 3 bar map sensor, Walboro fuel pump and Jabasco Intercooler pump
LM1 wideband on custom manifolds and 3" stainless exhaust system
T31/T04B H3 turbo and a S10 caliper conversion.
Murphy's Constant Matter will be damaged in direct proportion to its value
Murphy's Law of Thermodynamics Things get worse under pressure.
Arthur C. Clarke "Any significantly advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic"

Sex should be like a Honda Civic. Slow, obsene and loud enough for the neighbors to hear.

anotherrandomday comics posted that up on my facebook. be their fan. so much funny great things to see through out the day posted by them!

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screw paying those bastards. im not going to become rich by paying for things.....