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wat r the benefits of a loud muffler in my civic and what s the technical name for them?

There are NO benefits and the technical name is fart cannon. On a low powered car like a civic a fart cannon will kill low end power and make your engine run lean as well as emit an annoying fart-like sound hence the name.































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cops can hear you comingthe technical name is fart muffler

depending if you get a full exhaust... if you get just the "noise makers" there are no benefit to it... but if you get a header with a cat-back exhaust your car will breathe easier

well benefits would be if your car is loud people look and its always cool to turn some heads, so i suggest if you have a loud muffler your car looks good too lol ; ) but if you live in Cali cops will probably stop you and ticket you for your muffler being too loud so yeah that part sucks, i got a ticket and they told me to remove it, i did but after the inspection i put it back on ha ha LOL shhh don't tell.but uhhmm i don't really know the smart term for loud muffler because it all depends on what you have under that hood that give your car that sound, like modified exhaust, intake, headers.. you get the point right??? well take care, Master advisor DUH!!

There are no particular performance benefits of a loud muffler, i.e., aftermarket "coffee-can" exhaust tip with the angry bumble-bee sound. They're for show, and tend to attract unwanted attention from law enforcement. If you really want performance enhancements, go for exhaust system components that will make your car "breathe" easier.

There are benefits, but will not be very noticeable other than losing low-end torque. The idea here is to eliminate back pressure from the exhaust system. Back pressure is........... put it this way your engine puts out a lot of exhaust fumes right? Well not a lot because we mainly run 1.6 engines, but back pressure is how hard the engine has to work to push the burnt fumes out of the cylinder. With a stock exhaust it's pretty hard because it's a restrictive muffler. Meaning it was built to create a great amount of back pressure. The straight through mufflers that you guys call "the FART CAN" are designed to be as non-restrictive as possible. Hence the name "Straight Through". These performance exhaust systems typically come with a 2 1/4 inch piping. Imagine breathing through a coffee stirring straw thingy. You know that little red straw that's available at gas stations. Thats basically the original piping. Now take one of those straws that Mc Donalds or those fast food resteraunts offer. A lot easier to blow out of right? That's basically a comparison to an aftermarket exhaust system. This allows the engine to "breathe" better eliminating that loss of power to push the fumes out of the cylinder. Now if it's just a muffler, meaning only that big shiny thing that's welded onto your stock pipe....that's useless. If it's a header and cat-back system you'll actually see gains from that. So my advise is do not get just the muffler. Save it for the header and cat-back. Skunk2 systems are good. So are Apexi's.

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