Thrush 17656 Welded Muffler Review

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(More customer reviews)This is the Dynomax Thrush "Welded" Series Muffler. I purchased this in May of 2009 after weeks of watching YouTube videos, listening to audio clips and trying to determine the best exhaust sound for my car. This is a Dual-Chambered Muffler, which uses a series of metal folds and chambers to create a louder, more racy sound for your engine. Little did I know, this was not a muffler, it was an echo chamber.
I had the Thrush installed at a local custom muffler shop on my V6 Cavalier Z24. I should've known better when the muffler guy was asking me if I was sure I wanted to install this on my car. This muffler produced so much drone, it rendered my stereo useless, even at full volume. In fact, the entire cabin of my vehicle reverberated so loudly at cruising speeds with drone, it was giving me headaches. Maybe if I drove a truck I wouldn't care so much because I couldn't hear how loud it is inside the cabin. On a car, this muffler is just too loud.
Another side-effect: Corvettes would want to race me at stop lights because the car sounded like it was a V8. Now, this would have been really cool if I just turned 17, but it's been a few years since I was 17. It would have also been cool in the "Land of no laws." But the noise this Thrush made was so excessive, I would routinely set off alarms in parking garages by just starting the car. I was nervous I was going to get a police citation for excessive noise (95-110 db). So I stopped driving the car after about 100 miles.
After much bargaining with myself, I finally had a Super Turbo Muffler installed in place of this Dual-Chambered money pit. Even the new one produces drone, though it is somewhat less-deafening.
If someone could create a muffler that sounds cool upon acceleration without any drone, I would buy it in a second. But for now that is my unicorn, a mythical beast that one day, I hope to capture.

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