For me with the JBA and an AEM CAI the only place it seems to drone is at about 1900 rpms. But for the most part while cruising you'll be below that and above that level its just your standard V8 sound. Hope that helps, can't speak for the other systems, and if you pick JBA and don't like it (which I doubt you will) the it wasn't my fault lol

 

nother vote for the jba if you want power and a modest tone and to sound civilized this is the perfect catback.. cant beat the 380.00price either..

 

Ive got a JBA on my T and the rumble sounds very good with little to no drone at all. Im going out of my way to say JBA. Hope that helps.

 

Good topic. I noticed the poll on the home page as well, seems like most people are still running stock like myself. Hopefully that will be changing soon! Hopefully this gets some more responses.

 

I also have the JBA with an AEM intake. It does drone a good bit about 1800 - 1900 RPM but makes descent power. I recently swapped out the muffler that came with my JBA system to a magnaflow and it reduced the drone a good bit.

 

I have JBA and Volant gen3 and the intake is louder than the exhaust.

 

Love my JBA...The 22" Magnaflow is a very mellow sounding muffler itself.

 

Damn you have an 08 with 63k miles already!.. Holy crap where are you driving to?.. Mines an 05 and im barely gonna hit 68k. But I would go with the JBA im tryin to save up for that exhaust right now. I love the way my flowmaster sounds but I want the JBA for performance.

 

Yep, I use this truck for work. They pay us mileage, so it works out pretty good. It's not unusual for me to put 800+ miles a week on it. I travel to where ever our job site is at the time. I could fly to some places, but then when you have tools to carry it makes it more difficult to fly.

 

Dang man...54K on my 05 LOL

 

Ok, someone's got to speak up for the Maggies here...
The first thing I did to my '08 was put an 18" 2-into1 Magnaflow on so it sounded a little more like a V8. It sounded pretty good most of the time (IMHO) but would pop when rev'ed cold or running low octane gas. It also had a pretty bad drone between 1500 and 1900 RPM, mostly in overdrive with very little throttle.
I added a K&N intake and got a nice little boost overall but more drone and more popping. I recently had a set of Doug Thorley LT headers and Magnaflow hi-flow cats installed and it turned out to be way more than the 18" muffler could handle - the drone doubled and the pops from the exhaust impulse with the headers got really bad. This engine has a strong, punctuated exhaust pulse all by itself - the headers made it substantially stronger.
My exhaust guy called Magnaflow dealer support while I was standing there and got a tech rep that actually knew a little about our trucks and he said the only way to reduce popping from our engines with a straight-through design (without reversed louvers) was to use as big a muffler as we could fit to get maximum resonant chamber size.
It worked.
We put a 22" on and I took it out for a test drive and it had gotten rid almost all of the popping and sounded really sweet with the headers too. It's a sleeper... We had already talked about an x-pipe and he really wanted to try one so he fabbed one up pretty quick and I took it for another test drive. No more popping at all, even better tone, and it even got a little more low end performance. The drone is still there but it quits at about 65 MPH so "I can't drive 55".
So far I'm pretty happy with it. I'm not going to be looking at cat-back systems anytime soon... We will be addressing the drone later this month with some tailpipe changes.

 

Any way you'd post pics of your setup so I can see how it compares to the layout of mine?

 

Well this sucks, I got into a fender bender this morning in New Orleans. I have some front end damage, so now I got to get that all handled. :crying:

Looks like my exhaust system will be put on hold for a little while longer.

However, keep this thread going for future reference.

 

Awww that sucks man, sorry to hear...And Tactical, I mentioned the Maggie!! The 22" at that! hat is a great sounding muffler from my understanding, and the 07's+ have it well off, they really don't need a catback, just a muffler and tailpipe swap IMO and the 07+ Titans are good to go!

 

I saw that. Good advice too! And pretty impartial since I know you love that JBA... I just thought I'd elaborate a little since I've had a couple Magnaflows now with different setups. You're right about the 07+ pipes too - Nissan finally got them right and they are as high a quality as most any of the cat-backs out there have.
I was actually getting tired of the 18" muffler before the headers though and was strongly considering the JBA myself since so many have had such good luck with them - I just hated ditching the dual pipes for a single. The 22" is a whole different story though and I think I'll be happy for a while.

 

I did HVAC for a couple of years.. All new construction though.. way better, I would hate to work in an old addic with insulation all over. I did that once and i would never do it again plus the pay wasn't worth it.

 

I miss my jba honestly.... thinking about getting it again lol.

 

Buy the jba, you will love it!

 

That x-pipe is not in an ideal spot at all and it isn't fabbed correctly either. Not trying to pick at ya or whatever. If you look in the picture that has the x-pipe by itself, the center section is too small. It is not mandrel bent either but not that big a deal. I need to get rid of this damn Vortex muffler. It's too loud!! It does sound good though. ;-)

 

It's about as far forward as you can go without major mods to the b-pipes and both exhaust pipes which was farther than I wanted to go. And yes, it was hand built on the spot and, although I would have preferred a bit larger merge myself, he did a pretty good job all in all- it made a noticeable difference over the larger muffler swap alone including increased low end. Maybe one day I'll swap it out for a Magnaflow Tru-X or a Dr. Gas but for now it does quite nicely...

 

Looks like there was a lot more room under there from what I could see. At any rate, post up some vids so we can hear it. Some idle/revs and a WOT drive by would be awesome.

 

magnaflow muffler FTW! always a great sound with performance to back it up....

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do a custom one and it can be as loud as you want or as silent, just get 3 inch piping after cats to a magnaflow or flowmaster... its cheap and easy with great gains

 

If you have a y-pipe set0up, I would get the 3" piping after the y-pipe and merge collector....In order to keep your torque, if you have an 04-06 y-pipe set-up exhaust get a 2.25 y (2.5 is ok but will still lose some low-end) into a 3" pipe into muffler. If your running tru-duals, then no bigger than 2.5"

 

with my true duals with all 2.25" piping I noticed my tq a lot more, seems like spinning the tire is a chore even without uprev and vdc on lol

 

2.25 is ideal