Quick exhaust question

[X9x A T I x7X]

I will be doing a CHEAP exhaust upgrade within the next few weeks. I like the sound of a cherrybomb glasspack; especially for the price. i'm wondering if it would be better all around to keep my hollowed out cat on, or run a straight pipe to the glasspack.


1994 Jeep Cherokee Sport 4.0L I6 HO

 

[hubs97xj]

Better how? For that awesome tractor sound, for performance, for the environment?

 

[wolfpackjeeper]

it will run better if you pick up a cheap high flow cat from summit for like $40. You will lose all the balls from the bottom end if you go completely open flow

 

[bigalpha]

The I6 runs much better with the back pressure from the cat.

Don't forget that not having a cat is illegal.

 

[Johnnie Walker]

Get a high flow cat, and run straight pipe back from there.

 

[wolfpackjeeper]

that drones a bit too much for my taste, but to each his own

 

[X9x A T I x7X]

Better how? For that awesome tractor sound, for performance, for the environment?

All around, minus the environment, because no matter what I do my Jeep will never be environmentally friendly. It gets 8 mpg for crying out loud.

 

[hubs97xj]

Ouch. Well, I'll leave the flaming to others. For a cheap exhaust, I'm all about the cat and a nice cheap Dynomax (purchased when they run a steep discount) catback. I listened to a couple of clips of I6s with just a glasspack, and I wasn't a big fan. I like the Dynomax Turbo's sound, but opinions vary.

I recorded this because someone else asked, but here's mine. Don't think it's that loud, just that the camera's close to the tip.

 

[X9x A T I x7X]

Ouch. Well, I'll leave the flaming to others. For a cheap exhaust, I'm all about the cat and a nice cheap Dynomax (purchased when they run a steep discount) catback. I listened to a couple of clips of I6s with just a glasspack, and I wasn't a big fan. I like the Dynomax Turbo's sound, but opinions vary.

I recorded this because someone else asked, but here's mine. Don't think it's that loud, just that the camera's close to the tip.

It just sounds straight piped to me. I had mine straight piped for about two years and got tired of the sound, so I put a full stock exhaust back on it, now I want something with a little more sound. My buddy has a glasspack on his 4.0 and I like the sound of it. A lot of the Youtube videos make the glasspack sound really bad for some reason.

 

[wolfpackjeeper]

glasspacks are pretty raspy, I have one on my stroker, but it has been on there so long that I would hate to see how much of the filling is left.

Surprisingly enough, when they tested a bunch of mufflers, a strait through glasspack flowed the least of the bunch. I am a fan of the dynomax superturbo, or if you are set on a strait through muffler, a buddy has the ultra flow, which sounds nice. I have also heard good things about the flowmaster hushpowers.

 

[hubs97xj]

See, I think it sounds a lot quieter than straight pipe, but vid off a camera isn't all that hot. Then again, I'm always in the Jeep, not behind it. With the hatch open, it does sound a lot different inside, I'll admit.

What was the other oddball muffler guys said sounded good on the Jeeps- Spintech?

 

[wolfpackjeeper]

yea, those or I have heard of guys running Moroso Spiral Flows

 

[balrog429]

I just put on a spintech and love the sound. Everyone thinks it sounds like a small 8

 

[X9x A T I x7X]

I've never personally heard a raspy glasspack on an I6. Heard a lot of them on 4cyl but none on the I6; yet. Hopefully never

 

[wolfpackjeeper]

compared to a normal muffler on the same application I think glasspacks always have more of a raspy sound to them. Mine does ok for what I needed. That mainly being that I needed something on there to drive and a glasspack was only $20. I will be rebuilding the exhaust all the way back and NOT using a glasspack. Pacesetter to 2.5" to high flow cat to Superturbo or Borla to 2.5" out the back.

 

[Darky]

My buddy's Borla sounds nice, very throaty and deep. He also has a cat. Us telling you to run a cat isn't entirely about being environmentally friendly, but more about legality and not being environmentally hostile.

 

[Kiefer316]

I have a Flowmaster super 44 on mine (with cracked stock header) It sounds good for being cracked. I have a cat that just got replaced for free by the dealer. For that type of money its exactly what i expected it to be. I don't get very much in cab noise and it sounds great outside while driving. I Had a glass pack on my last jeep and it wasn't any where near what kind of sound i was looking for. It was real quiet. I must have needed a new cat. And one of my friends had one on his and it sounded pretty much stock.

 

[Johnnie Walker]

Get a high flow cat, and a muffler of your choice.. From the sound of it you want a magnaflow/bullet performance 16" or a dynomax ultraflo.

 

[Talyn]

I just put on a spintech and love the sound. Everyone thinks it sounds like a small 8

Can you get a sound clip of that?

 

[X9x A T I x7X]

I need cheap. That's why I was looking at the $24 cherrybomb.