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      08-21-2008, 11:29 AM   #1
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Poking holes in stock exhaust

I recently saw that if you just want to make your exhaust louder, you just poke a hole in the stock exhaust?
is this true?
Where do you poke the hole?
what tools do you use?
any input is appreciated
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      08-21-2008, 11:41 AM   #2
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I wouldn't be poking holes in my exhaust, but if you wanna mess with yours, I guess its your call.

If you do not like it, you are stuck with it.
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it'll be loud is a very bad way tho... very honda-civic-with-exhaust-ish
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nah i wasnt planning on doing it because it is really sketchy
i was just extremely curious as to how this even works
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One old school way of making the exhaust louder was to run your car till the muffler gets hot, then sticking a water hose with water running into the exhaust tip. The hot fiberglass will disintegrate and voila, louder exhaust!

(some guy with an E46 M3 posted a vid on m3forum a couple years ago too)
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Just have a muffler shop hack off the stock exhaust and weld on a couple of glasspacks. It would probably sound better than you might think...
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One old school way of making the exhaust louder was to run your car till the muffler gets hot, then sticking a water hose with water running into the exhaust tip. The hot fiberglass will disintegrate and voila, louder exhaust!

(some guy with an E46 M3 posted a vid on m3forum a couple years ago too)
huh... Interesting. Does anyone know where to find the video?
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wouldn't it just sound like an exhaust leak? I guess if you want to drive around in a new car that sounds like it has an old rusted out exhaust system go for it.
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It's not "just poke a hole in it"... it's a little more than that.
Below are two exampes of "modified" stock exhausts...first is my stock C5Z06's mufflers(which are Titanium) and the second is a Porsche 996TT's...



In the Porsche 996TT world, a similar exhaust modification was done...but it entailed inserting a torch or router bit into the exhaust and opening up a "bypass hole"... as shown here...




I was looking for pictures of the insides of the M3's exhaust to see if this would be a worthwhile modification.

It could be as simple as inserting a router-bit into the exhaust tip and drilling a hole, but I'd need to see the inside of a stock can first...

Anyone have a stock exhaust with the top cut off?

Be good,
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wow thanks for the info guys
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