I finally got my evo back from AMS and now the police are being relentless. They say the muffler is too loud and not street legal. Does anyone else have a similar problem? The car is so perfect the way it is. I was dino at 339hp. Any ideas how to quite down the car with out hurting performance?

 

Can buy a silentser but I lived in Washington and anything but stock muffler and or exhaust is illegal:-(. I have herd o people painting the nice chrome black just so it don't draw attention to it but I have got two tickets already and pulled over twenty times and mine isn't that loud. There just dicks and want your money. Good luck with that one.

 

I hate when cops harass people about this. I wonder how many Harley's they've pulled over? Hint hint.... it's a trick question.

 

put a mid muffler on to your exhaust will bring the nose down but will not lose power

 

Is the law a decible threshold? Get it tested?

Silencer in the tip, adding another muffler, or changing the muffler are really your only options.
Another route is exhaust cutout with a different exhaust setup.

 

I think this would be a good option. To OP, did you actually get a ticket or just a warning?

 

put a mil-spec 100 cell cat in the exhaust.

you lose only 10whp, it will quiet the car down, and you get rid of that "Mr police man please pull me over" smell

 

Id get a silencer, but you can always stick a bannana in there too and see what happens.

 

Yes. Get a better exhaust. Seriously. For example, a Buschur with a dual-muffler setup is quiet and makes good power. Given the numbers, your car sounds like one with basic mods, so the concept of max power is moot, anyway. FWIW, a silencer at the tip will diminish the gains greatly. Search. More than one dynograph has been posted illustrating the idea.

On a purely personal note. my car is relatively quiet. At least by Evo standards. It's quiet, because I like to go fast. As our cars develop the bulk of their power at the top of the revband, gotta (errr...) rev the suckers. As such, how can the concept of max power even enter the equation, then the amplitude of the exhaust prevents one from exploring the range of the car?

 

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Originally Posted by captinnitro

I finally got my evo back from EMS and now the police are being relentless. They say the muffler is too loud and not street legal. Does anyone else have a similar problem? The car is so perfect the way it is. I was dino at 339hp. Any ideas how to quite down the car with out hurting performance?

I added a round magnaflow 3" canister where the cat went and man did that quiet things down. if that's no good look up the vibrant muffler with remote switch they are like stock





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Does the exhaust have a cat?

 

I live in Chicago and never get hassled for mine (Catless AMS/ Vibrant TBE) . Chicago cops usually have "better things" to do than pull someone over for a loud exhaust.

 

what i would do is put the stock muffler back out and install a cut out so that way when the cop pull you over just tell him its stock after you close it lol

 

also by federal law, muffler noise shouldn't be louder then 92dlb on car and 115dlb on motorcycles, so if they pull you over again tell them to check the dlb with there mics to prove to them its legal just like what they would do for tinted window

 

ever heard of the RRE stealth exhaust? its a 3" exhaust, flows very well (dyno proven), thats quieter than stock