Originally Posted by dhave3
Has anyone bought a titanium muffler from 4caroption.com? I have a super street magazine and it's only $65, i think that's pretty cheap.
Any pros and cons with titanium?
I know it's just a muffler but if i get one i'm going to have custom piping. So anyone that's just gonna tell me to just get Greddy full exhaust i don't even want to hear about it. I'm not gonna spend around $450 for a full exhaust.
Titanium alloys are corrosion free, very lightweight, flexible (high fatigue resistance) and very strong. Other than being difficult to weld, there are no cons with titanium alloys, other than price, which makes it very, very hard to believe that it's really a titanium muffler. More likely, it's a "titanium-style tip" muffler made from the lowest grade stainless steel they can find in Taiwan . . .
Consider this -
Titanium bicycle frame - bare minimum, $900-3,000 ($900 for really, really cheap stuff)
http://www.excelsports.com/new.asp?p...ajor=2&minor=1
REAL Titanium Greddy exhaust for a Supra - $800-1000 -
http://www.hopupracing.com/grfutiextosu.html
What are the chances of a real titanium muffler being sold at retail for $65 (where the mark-up is typically around 100%)?
In any case, it doesn't matter - the sound quality of your exhaust system is going to depend more on -
1) whether you have a catalytic convertor or not
2) whether you've gutted that cat or not
3) whether you have a resonator or not
4) how big and long that resonator is
- not the muffler itself, as long as you're comparing like-diameter straight-through mufflers of similar size and length.