Aftermarket Muffler ideas!!

[Ricky Bobby]

Hey Danny I was 18 not too long ago, wanted to mod my car and didn't have the cash either.

If I can give you one piece of advice its "do it right or do it twice", the scorpion mufflers would sound good as well as a brand name magnaflow. Save your money to do it right, take it to a muffler shop and select some nice mufflers to weld or bolt in place and you should have the sound you're looking for.

Ditch the ebay specials, this isn't a Scion xB

[MINIz guy]

Just chop off the muffles and run straight pipes back from the x-pipe. Gonna sound great and I would do it on my car if I didn't have an aftermarket exhaust on it.

Sent from a plane on a treadmill

[KyleNatolix5]

Shepherd Auto Parts 2-1/4" Weld On Stainless Steel Straight Oval Exhaust Muffler Tip:Amazon:Automotive

taking my mufflers off, waiting for my tips to arrive. Test fitting them and if I don't like them im getting dual tips.

[bcredliner]

Originally Posted by MINIz guy

Just chop off the muffles and run straight pipes back from the x-pipe. Gonna sound great and I would do it on my car if I didn't have an aftermarket exhaust on it.

Sent from a plane on a treadmill

There are several youtube videos if you want to sample the sound.

[KyleNatolix5]

Originally Posted by MINIz guy

Just chop off the muffles and run straight pipes back from the x-pipe. Gonna sound great and I would do it on my car if I didn't have an aftermarket exhaust on it.

Sent from a plane on a treadmill

Any specific x pipe I should look into? I could only find one video on the tube of a muffler delete and an x-pipe. It also sounded a bit raspy.

[MINIz guy]

A good quality, non-eBay x-pipe?

I've seen guys use Magnaflow on this forum. I'm sure a good custom car shop can fab up their own x-pipe for a good price. Just make sure you know what material they are using and if it will rust down the line.

I seriously doubt that a V8 is going to rasp. My setup isn't an X5, but it is an x-pipe to Britalman cans (basically straight pipes). On my 5.0L V8, I get no rasp at all. There is drone under 2k RPM, and lots of burble upon engine braking.

If you have an I6 engine, I wouldn't even get an x-pipe. Just cut the mufflers off and keep the resonators. Should keep rasp down.

[KyleNatolix5]

Could of just been the camera not being able to record the sound properly. Ill decide whether to do an xpipe after the muffler delete.

[ThaDannyP]

Maybe i'll do a muffler delete? Not sure. Wish I knew how it really sounds..

[bcredliner]

Go to YouTube and search BMW x5 muffler delete, there are several videos

[ThaDannyP]

Yea I've done that ^^ but I'm just not sure if they have an X-pipe like I do, because it wasn't noted on any of the videos I've found..