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If you ever really had bad gas problems and couldn't let it loose. It sounds like keeping it all in until that final moment when it just suddenly exlplodes out. That's what a rice exhaust sounds like, I dunno why they even call it rice anymore they should just call it beans.

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i have a aem short ram, 2.5" custom catback and a maganflow street series and it sounds good i think... i love it. should sound 10 times better with a turbo on the other end

so, are you talking about this?

http://vibrantperformance.com/catalog/prod...;products_id=45

so are you saying this is mislabelled as a resonator?

do you have a first hand experience on this product? have you tapped it personally and have you disected it to see that it has a perforated core?

your words seems a quote from some thread ago...

Castrol... I can see where you have the right to question honda owners with 95 horsepower cars and a giant exhaust... but errr... how is that car in the image you posted different from yours? Having had a celica with a huge yellow dragon decal on both sides... I am fairly certain that that honda's owner operated on same principle as you and I did... did he not?

This is what my old celi used to look like with similar type decal

^^i like your white rims

Umm, I believe the Vibrant is the only 2.25" resonator. If you Google "2.25" resonator" it is the only one that comes up.
On youtube there are before/after vids of the Vibrant resonator, it significantly reduces farting/rice.
I think the best sounding and looking setup would be 2.25" mandrel bent stainless steel pipe from cat back, 2.25" Vibrant Ultra-quiet resonator, and 60mm Apexi WS2 muffler.
Unfortunately where I live this would cost over $800, a lot for 2 wheel horse power.

I don't have the car anymore but rims were made by Motegi Racing. They were 18 inch aluminum rims with 225/35/18 being like a quarter inch from rubbing after I dropped that car with coilovers

that would look nice on a white car! like mine lol

Yes, that item. I don't have to tap it, the product description which I quoted from the page you linked makes it entirely clear it is not a resonator. Resonators do not absorb sound via insulation, and therefore do not "Feature Vibrant's "True Straight Through" perforated core, surrounded by our premium multi-layer sound absorption materials." Determining that this product is not what it's labelled is as simple as looking at a product description of a "diesel" engine which features iridium spark plugs.

A perforated core surrounded by insulation is the basic description of a straight-through muffler. And the reason my post sounds like a quote is because I've posted it before. The problem is simply one of mislabelling; many people think all round-body items which go into the exhaust system under the car are resonators. They're not.

For a proper explanation of a resonator's function and form, look up Hemholtz resonator.

This post has been edited by Galcobar: Nov 24, 2009 - 10:42 PM

what do you recoomend then?

Huh?

Mine has never looked anything like that. There's a huge difference between putting a big dragon on the side of your car and a car kit ala Need for Speed's custom car creator, and making your car look like a real life rally car that you grew up idolizing. On top of that, I have, and will continue, to do many performance mods. If all I did was put a new muffler on my car and paint it like the Hondas you think I'm like, then you could call me a hypocrite.

Proof in point. My car doesn't sound like it's farting with a high pitched whiny sound (like the Hondas you assume I am like), and my car doesn't make teenagers cream their pants (like the box shaped, low horsepower loving people you think I'm like).

I made my car because it's something I've always wanted since I've seen it on tv, in magazines and in old video games, and will continue to make it closer and closer and closer as the years go on and the money for the project grows. I can guarantee your inspiration and thought process in creating yours was not the same as mine. There is nothing wrong with your car, but we do not run on the same philosophy here.

This post has been edited by CastrolCelica: Nov 25, 2009 - 11:33 AM

darryl, **** it lets do a 3sgte conversion on your celica!!! you get the engine and i will be up in columbus by 4 lol lets do it and shut everyone up!!!

I have the money, and that's a planned future mod (as you well know, I have all sorts of messed up plans for this haha). I just need someone who knows how to put in engines who'd .. ya know.. do it.

This post has been edited by CastrolCelica: Nov 25, 2009 - 12:53 PM

I'm still saying the Vibrant Ultra Quiet unit. Traditional resonator or not - it smooths the tone out and sounds very nice. Many race applications take two N1-style straight-through mufflers and put them in-line for the exact same effect. I believe this very same arguement tried to take off in the Official Exhaust Thread, and it was shot to pieces. Having owned a custom exhaust with a Vibrant muffler, and then a complete Vibrant catback on my WRX with the very same Ultra Quiet Resonator, I will say that it is hands down an excellent product, and that is why I will continue to push their products.

This post has been edited by 95CelicaST: Nov 25, 2009 - 1:11 PM

^^yup i agree! no matter how a resonator is built, it has one single purpose - smooth down the tone

im still going with the vibrant

Actually, thats not what the argument (if you want to call it that) was about. Im pretty sure it started off as that, but wound up being about the word "implied". And to top it off, got way off subject. But, 95 there did show me an application of the two muffler set up. To add to that, there was a vid on there with that vibrant set up (at least I think there was), and I'll admit, it sounded good. So push those products!

castrol... all I was trying to say is that to an outsider your car looks like someone took a white car and slapped a bunch of stickers on it. They would not know that its a rally car replica paint/decal scheme, they would not know what a rally car looked like if they saw one. They probably forgot what sega even was... As a matter of fact... and this is true story.. you can and you will probably get ticketed for your decals. When I went to Virginia to player158's meet I slept over in my buddy's house only to find out that I got a 86 dollar ticket for what was classified as "inappropriate graphics" and 43 dollar ticket for unapproved aftermarket modification.

But anyways... prior to Fast and the Furious (which caused an explosion of aftermarket market) there was little of fancy shmancy anything. People were just getting into the subwoofer situation, coming out of sleeper muscle cars. I do like your car though... but kind of wish it had grrr power to back up all the visual cues.