Some of you are wondering about the Flowmaster 40 series on the Crossfire, well I would advise against it. On Saturday, I had a Flowmaster 40 Series installed on my 04 manual Coupe. Ripley's Exhaust in Houston did the install and they did a really nice job. They got the stock tips welded back on perfectly, so that it still looked stock.

So, why don't I like it? When I first got in and started it up, I thought, "Man, this sounds good." Then I pulled out and ran through the gears taking it to about 4500 before each shift and I thought, "Damn, this is loud, but it sounds fantastic." Then I settled in for the 15 mile drive back home, most of which was on the freeway. I was cruising between 55-70 mph most of the way home in 5th and 6th gear. If you're cruising at a steady speed, the exhaust is fairly quiet. If, however, you accelerate (even the slightest push on the accerlator) and you're anywhere between 2,000 and 3,000 rpm, the exhaust drone and resonance inside the car is EXTREME. In regular driving this is where I spend a lot of my time. The resonance was so bad at times that things were rattling inside the car. It's a tight car with only 11,000 miles on it. After I got home, I had lunch and then drove back to the exhaust shop. I'm not exaggerating when I say that my ears were ringing when I got there. They (exhaust shop) believe that the Magnaflow does not have as much resonance, so next weekend I'm having the Magnaflow installed. More $!!!! Maybe I'm getting too old, 38. The droning, though, just sounds like crap in the car, no matter how old you are. I hope to make some videos this week inside and outside the car, so that we can have a direct comparison once I have the magnaflow installed. AND if it does the same damned thing, I'm going back to stock!