Jacobpockros

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To those of you who want to make your CL louder but not "ricey", I highly recommend removing the Mid-Muffler. Honestly, the Axelbacks barely sound any louder than stock, BUT they DO change the tone of your car and are still an important thing to have. Most of you already know what a Mid-Muffler is, but to those who don't, a Mid-muffler is a second muffler on the CL that is located in the Middle of your exhaust. NOTE: This is not the tail muffler. The only purpose of this Mid-Muffler is to reduce the sound of the car.

Removing it (with the addition of having aftermarket axelbacks), creates a loud, but smooth sound that DOES NOT sound "ricey", but sounds "Mean and Classy".

If you want to do this there are only 2 STEPS:

1.) Go to a muffler shop and have them cut the mid-muffler out and away.

2.) Once they cut it out, have them replace the location with a piece of straight piping.

NOTE: This is NOT "Straight-piping your car", Thaat is when people replace their rearrr mufflers with piping.

Below, I have 2 pictures of what this is (NOTE: these are pictures i found, too lazy to get my camera out on my car).



This is how it sounds on my car, (Sound quality of the video camera is not the best):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Vf6soEYGZw

duyx817

noob question.

what is axelbacks?

i removed my mid muffler but kept everything else stock

Rajca

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pictures above are incorrect.

1st pic is not of a cl/tl underbody shot.

2nd pic is of the resonator removed, mid muffler is after the resonator. and still not our car bc u can see a drive shaft in the pic.

duyx817

he did say "Below, I have 2 pictures of what this is (NOTE: these are pictures i found, too lazy to get my camera out on my car)."

Rajca

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yes, but their labeled incorrect anyway

Rajca

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https://acurazine.com/forums/2g-tl-performance-parts-modifications-116/exhaust-resonator-thinking-about-getting-them-removed-624733/

circle toward the back of the car is the mid muffler, circle toward the front of the car is the resonator


mid muffler and resonator removed

StreetKA

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i think CL has only midmuffler... no resonator as showed

Rajca

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yup. cl has no resonator. but this is all that i could find that came close

Jacobpockros

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StreetKA is right on the ball. The mid-muffler is what was removed, it's the closest to the rear mufflers and it's what I removed.

Rajca, as stated in the beginning of my thread, the pictures posted were just examples and were not taken from a CL.

EDIT: ^just saw your post

Jacobpockros

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cleptosis

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i want resonater n mid muffler delete with stock 2007 tl-s quad id like see see how that sounds

madmuzik09

lol or you can get a test pipe and remove the CAT and i have passes the OBD emissions test... but quick question is i remove the midmuffler wud that make my car sound ricey because its basicly straight all the way thru. I saw a video on youtube with this idea and it sounded horrible

OperationDarkie

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Yes

madmuzik09

lol so i guess its going to be hks draggers in the summer for my sound

RendanCLS

I have my mid-muffler removed, along with the air intake resonater removed. It sounds better than stock for sure. At first I thought it sounded a little ricey, but a month later it grew on me. Also I paid the muffler shop $40 to cut out my mid-muff which I though was a bit pricey for 2 minutes worth of work, just to let others know the ball park area of what it might cost.

MrFluffy

I think the closest thing it sound like is an 05 G35 coupe because my neighbor has one and my wife a dog thinks its me when its him

But my wife also saysit sounds like an out board motor in a tin boat and also its hard to hear it unless its under load

civicdrivr

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Im content with my CT axlebacks. I dont like the sound of the VQ.

CL-Slick

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I think my MagnaFlows would be too loud if I removed the mid-muffler. (which reminds me I still need to make a video of them)

Rajca

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i got two high flow 2.5" magnaflow mufflers on my cl and its fuckin loud. ppl cant stand it.

CL-Slick

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I've got 11214's on mine. I'll post up a video soon.

Rajca

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mine doest sound ricy. u heard it, but i have diff mufflers.

OperationDarkie

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Yeah Rajca has my old setup, I drove around with the mid muffler removed and honestly didn't like it. Then i had two magnaflow racing mufflers installed and its loud as fuck. I basically said screw it im going with a JDM exhaust, and couldn't be more satisfied.

cleptosis

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any one so stock exhuast with mid muffler and resonator delete video any where ?