Low deep sound from the Mazda MX-3

Mazdaspeed96743 · Post by **Mazdaspeed96743** » July 31st, 2005, 4:30 am

Sup guys its me again well um my friend had a '92 Mazda MX-3 and only mods to his car is an exhaust and I rode his car a several months ago and I remembered the car having a loooow loud growl when he accels slowly how does it sound like that?? My MX has a Sebring Tuning Exhaust (4inch wide pipe)

video clip of my MXs exhaust =

http://www.zippyvideos.com/179791815542705.html

and it doesn'y sound even close to my friends MX. He doesn't have a air intake either only mods is an exhaust. Well he said its a better engine in his mx or something like that but I forgot what he said. So is it maybe the BP or BPT swap that makes the car sound really low and a loud growl because I want to get this intake for my MX=

will this help with the sound too? what else makes the mx sound like that? ex:headers ect.

V8KOMX3 · Post by **V8KOMX3** » July 31st, 2005, 5:49 am

I have a PRM I can sell you if you would like. It is off a v6 but is there a difference between them if so sorry for my wasted post.

Mazdaspeed96743 · Post by **Mazdaspeed96743** » July 31st, 2005, 8:35 am

Sorry man I don't think it would fit in my 4 Cylinder MX but how do you like those PRM Intakes? are they alright?

atlantamx3 · Post by **atlantamx3** » July 31st, 2005, 11:57 am

They are a rip off... too expensive.

jrors · Post by **jrors** » July 31st, 2005, 2:12 pm

I have a Ractive exhaust on my 93 auto RS. It also has a loud, yet low bass growl when I am moving at slow speeds also.

BuGS · Post by **BuGS** » July 31st, 2005, 3:38 pm

I have a Turbo'd BP with a 2.5" exhaust back to some "Premium Touring" Muffler the guy had out back. Also the stock 1.6L Cat is there opened up to run 2.5". It sounds real nice and more quiet but I am betting most of that is due to the Turbo. Once it starts spooling around 10 PSI the Turbo is the loudest thing then the RFL BOV

Flashpoint2 · Post by **Flashpoint2** » July 31st, 2005, 4:13 pm

They are a rip off... too expensive

They *are* expensive, but what do you expect when the whole company is one guy in his basement?

Personally, I think they are excellent, I used to have one, but the one I had was for a 2.5 probe, and it fell off the while I was on the highway lol

Anyway, they are built well, and if I had the $$$ for another one right now, i would get it in a heartbeat. Right now I'm gathering the money for Barry's Porsche headlights.

Mazdaspeed96743 · Post by **Mazdaspeed96743** » July 31st, 2005, 6:27 pm

Thanks guys. But heres the exhaust I have on the Mazda right now. I don't know how long its been there but it was on there since ive bought the car take a look!=

This is some frekin fat exhaust pipe but I think the rest of the piping is the stock muffler piping because its really rusty. But anyways, Thanks guys but yeah can someone record the sound of the PRM intake if anyone can because im just wondering how it sounds thats why

Mazdaspeed96743 · Post by **Mazdaspeed96743** » August 4th, 2005, 3:44 am

whoa today I seen this red MX-3 going out of a parking lot and then the lady starts the MX okay no big deal right? And then when she took off the car had this loud @** deep growl like WHOOOOOOOOOOOOM. My reaction to that was like "Whooooooa Daaaaaaammmmn I didin't know MX-3s can sound that good" I think she has a bp swap guarantee. because my car has only an exhaust and it doesn't sound even close to that

okay sorry guys I had to share that to ya's

V8KOMX3 · Post by **V8KOMX3** » August 4th, 2005, 4:04 am

I loved my PRM intake but the custom integra intake is a much better route I always reccomend it.

Mazdaspeed96743 · Post by **Mazdaspeed96743** » August 4th, 2005, 5:35 am

Oh thats cool. I didin't know you could do those kind of stuff. heh.. Custom parts= teh best

Shades · Post by **Shades** » August 4th, 2005, 7:26 am

Maybe the lady had a hole in her exhaust?

By the way, doing a BP swap isn't gonna make it growl. :S

It all depends on your exhaust system setup... headers? high flow cat? muffler?... and sometimes a CAI might make it sound different, like throwing a cone air filter on where the box use to be.

projectmx · Post by **projectmx** » August 4th, 2005, 9:35 am

mine is a 2.25" from the pre-cat back to the muffler and sounds very deep , and loud... and not a bit ricy either...

Shades · Post by **Shades** » August 4th, 2005, 10:03 am

It's more your muffler that creates that howl than the size of the pipe.

When they installed my high flow muffler they cut off my rusted stock one... then they held different mufflers up to the end while the car was started to give me sample of what it would sound like. I was going for a quiet sounding high flow muffler.

This one called the Fireball was the loudest... it looked pretty much like a straight pipe.

Mazdaspeed96743 · Post by **Mazdaspeed96743** » August 4th, 2005, 3:39 pm

lol thanks for the input quys.