When installing the T924, by chance did anyone change their exhaust tip. I went to Meineke to get mine installed and they talked me into getting an exhaust tip with a resonator in it. I've only had it installed for two days. Trying to get use to the new sound. It's fine when you are not accelarating. But when you accelerate it's a bit loud. I'm trying to figure out is it loudr because of the resonator tip or not? Need in put. I saw in this earlier thread where someone paid $40.00 to intall theirs. Meineke charged me $197.00. They must have seen me coming. I feel like such a sucker.

 

I took ours off after three days. It is for sale with a nice chrome tip. Just too loud for a daily driving family car. It has a nicely welded custom bracket as well.


I'd rather hear my daughter speak from tha back seat than hear the muffler or even get its little gain in MPG.

I still have the CGS intake with the outlaw on, but it may come off to if I cannot get it to stop rattling against the body and sounding like a junk box. It does this at startup, reverse, turning, and just when hitting bumps. I readjust it sometimes three times a day.

Time for a new bracket, or to take the outlaw off, or just restore the stock intake. I have better things to do with my time than forever readjusting the intake.
I have Covairs for all the finicky stuff. I just want to drive the HHR and do mods that do not need constant upkeep.

 

Tips can totally change the sound of a muffler. Resonator tips will generally make the tone much louder aka "import" sounding. Any tip that gets larger in diameter will increase the exhaust notes loudness exponentially - similar to a megaphone. For the quietest tone, stick with a small diameter tip the same size as the muffler outlet, and one that is uniform in size.

Hope it helps,

 

$197.00?? How could they justify such a price? I had an IMCO put on the HHR, and one put on my Altima several Months ago and was charged $40.00 for one, and $35.00 for the other. Same shop, but a different guy in the office. (There was 2 or 3 weeks in between the two installations!) I put the tip that I had bought at the dealer, when we bought the HHR, back on the new Turbo. It's sort of a resonator type I'd say, and it does have a different sound than the Altima since I had them just put on a plain chrome tip with a turned down end. Neither one is what I'd consider "Loud" though by any means!! (And I'm an Old Fart! )

 

I went with the Imco T 910 a little shorter sounds great a little more performance