I have a 02 TL-s mainly stock with a injen CIA i had the mid muffler removed at first ... liked the sound wanted it to be a lil louder though so i brought it back and got the other resonator removed the "apple juice can" lookin one lol. now i like the sound except when the car is still on the colder side when im driving normal at about 2 grand i get a real nasty tinny noise anyone else have this problem??? the noise go's away after the engine is warm???????

 

I had that same problem when i did the same mod to mine. never looked in to it but I was wondering if the better flow is making the rear mufflers make the noise till warm.

 

thats what i was thinkin

 

i never had this problem, you should take it back to where you got it done so they can take a look at it

 

I also hear that sound until my exhaust system is warmed up. I removed both resonators, too.

 

What is the life expectancy on our OEM mufflers? Maybe they just need new bearings?

 

Make sure you use the High Temp Heat grease with these bearings this time... maybe they will last longer!

 

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i had the same noise when the cars was cold then went away when it got hot but when i changed the mufflers didn't hear it no more which is good

 

Maybe I should have put the second sentence in red. I was being serious with the first one.

 

If someone thought you were serious with your second sentence then they probably need to check their blinker fluid as well...

 

Lol anyone with a legit solution? Or is the tinnyness the price to pay for a more agressive exhaust tone? Lol

 

is it the tin can knocking sound ? I now have it too.

any way to get rid of it?

 

yea it sounds like really raspy and tinny only at about 2grand and it got that sound for about 5 min or so until the engine is all warm then it go's away but the noise is really gettin in me lol I want find out whats causing it

 

i'm so annoyed of that sound right now.

I'm gonna try to put atleast one of them back on.

 

Do you have headers?

 

no i dont and yea i feel you I wanna put the "apple juice" can one back on but i love the sound after the car is warm = ) theres gotta be a way to get rid of that noise though

 

I don't have headers.
I have the inatake resonator removed and both exhaust resonators removed.

I was wondering if I should put the smaller one back on or the bigger one to avoid that tin can exhaust note.....

I also hate how the smaller one hangs so low at the original spot. I would scrape some speed bumps since my car is lowered to about 1/2 finger gap all around.

should i put the smaller one back on, but into the place where the bigger one use to be?

 

where is the second resonator located? i removed one of the resonator. is there a pic, i wanna remove mine also.

 

heres a question. When you guys removed your mid muffler and resonator, did you have them cut each item out then weld on the pipes? or did some of you just chop the whole section out and have them redo the whole mid section? Because i'm going to the shop today and the dude said he'll replace my whole mid section insted of hacking it up. i think it would flow better

 

my whole section got chopped

 

when i got my mid resonator removed he just chopped it out and welded a little piece of pipe back in. I really want to remove the other resonator but i don't want a tin can sound so maybe all hold off

 

I assum the middle one is the bigger one right?

 

Thats on you man I dont think im going to put the second resonator back in it sounds to good lol but for you tl-p guys i dunno if your going to get the tinny noise too????? you think it could be a exhaust leak???

 

I'm going on my 9th year this Dec with the stock exhaust system... so I dont know how long they are to last. I am in California.

 

Maybe you should have done the procedure yourself so you always go back and put it in for free

 

exhaust leak was fixed, but the tin noise won't go away since i do alot of city driving. i have to drive gentle to try to avoid that sound

 

i think im just gunna have to grab a mangaflow resonator or summin to cut down the raspyness

 

Sounds like a muffler issue. Ive had both mine out almost since day one and never had that noise with the OEM mufflers.

 

man now after all this I dont know if I want to remove back or not. Whats the different between removing one and both? is it that much louder? I'm afraid I will be one of those raspy victims

 

Does anyone have both the mid muffler and resonator removed with like a magnaflow resonator or something of that sort... If so any feedback?

 

Another question to add, since I learned the hard way on the tin sound on cold start when removing the resonators, I decided on this second TL I have to unbolt the rear mufflers just the experiment to see how it sounds and I actually like it. Nice sound like a slightly louder 350Z. I want to just weld on new pipes where the mufflers were and throw the exhaust tips back on. I'm worried how the final sound will be. Anybody have some input?

 

Ihave a resonator installed on mine and it got rid of that sound 100%. DO it.






NO

 

Just a thought, not sure if it has been cover yet....

From what I can find out the TLp has 2" exhaust and the TLs has 2.25" exhaust...
Has anyone with a TLp removed both midpipes and HAVE the rapsy sound and anyone with a TLs removed both midpipes and NOT have the rapsy sound?

I have a TLs with both midpipes removed and HAVE the rapsy sound. I am taking it in to the exhaust shop this Saturday to install resionator to get rid of that rapsy sound.

Just a thought-

 

I am kind of surprised that there weren't any response to my previous statement. Huh...

 

I had TL-P with both removed and no raspy sound.

 

where did u guys get your magnaflow resonators?

 

summitracing.com search thrust glasspack mufflers

 

So if I get my second resonator removed from my 99 TL which i guess is a (TL-P) i wont have that raspy sound? Are guys only with 01-03 tl's getting this raspy sound?