Finally : Straight Pipe Axleback Sound Clips
 

They aren't the greatest (recorded with my blackberry) but it gives you a good idea of how it sounds. It's a little throatier / not as raspy in person.
My Setup:
-Straight pipe axleback w/ DC Sports tip
-Everything else is stock (including intake)

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Pictures:
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Doesn't sound to bad. How is it just driving around?

i kinda did a very similar thing, except i just cut mine right after the downturn after the axle (no pipe or tip to the back) i did it for the track so i'd get better sound on my videos - but i'm leaving it!! it's not loud or anoying at all (atleast without the extra pipe and tip)
do a drive by vid!
EVERYONE !!! IT SOUNDS GREAT! and when i want i just need to have it welded back together - and at that point it will have low miles on the factory muffler

props to the OP!

free mod for me:rotfl:

it's pretty quiet. i never get any attention from it; it sounds like how the car should've come from the factory. there's pretty much no highway drone, and i usually can't hear it over my stereo.

it's honestly the cheapest / best sounding setup you can do for a GE. it's a very simple setup that still sounds really deep; and has a good amount of backfire :D
i'll do a drive by video soon. i recorded an interior video but you can't hear the car at all haha

Where did you get that tip from? Im going to do this to mine, and it looks like that tip fills the space perfectly. Just a little bit bigger than stock.

Picked it up from Pepboys, made by DC Sports. Think it ran me about $30.

what rims are on that scion? i want some lol

I just picked up my 2010 AT GE8. Already deleted the resonator on the midpipe I think I'm headed to the muffler shop tomorrow to delete the muffler and put a tip on it. Considering our cars don't have much power, might as well get some good sound.

Yeah totally thinking about doing this. Gonna have a shop fab a straight pipe with flanges and everything so I can remove the straight pipe and put my muffler back on quickly if I need to. Shipping an exhaust out here would hurt my wallet bad.

Edit: Yes! Please do a drive by video!

Good idea about doing a straight pipe setup with flanges. Looking back, I should have done that with mine. Now I sound like a loud battle tank.

I'm going to probably go to the opposite end of the spectrum and make my car super quiet.

OEM rims painted black :)

It'll probably be really loud. It'd sound better if you had a muffler with it, just saying.

That's what I'm going to do of I do this again on the new Fit. Since the old one is totalled I can't do a drive by video, sorry :(

Just put the resonator back on, or get a muffler!

I'll probably put the oem muffler back on with the rounded tip I bought to avoid any issues. I'll have enough "sound" with the system I'm putting in the car. :rotfl:

Sounds good Andrew! And are you sure that tip is legit DC Sports? Never knew they sold tips.

how is it going uphill?

I'm so thankful for finding this thread. I ordered a Greddy Spectrum Elite for my '13 Fit Sport MT last week, and apparently a lot of companies don't check to see if the exhausts they put up for sale are still being manufactured -__-. I kept getting a run around from the company that I ordered the exhaust from about why I wasn't receiving tracking for my purchase, so I called Greddy themselves and was told that the Spectrum Elite has been discontinued for a very long time. I immediately got a refund for the exhaust and was bummed since I did a lot of research on GE Fit exhausts, and pretty much every exhaust (besides the Spectrum Elite and T1R VIP) had a big canister muffler (which I wanted to stay away from due to attention).

I called up a reputable muffler shop in my city (I highly highly recommend Babe's & Lightning Muffler if you're in San Jose), and asked if he could chop off the OEM muffler and weld on a straight pipe (with 3.5" tip). I went to the shop around 3:30 PM, and everything was chopped and installed nicely by 4:30 PM.

The sound is awesome, drones quite a bit around 3,000 rpm especially if going downhill in 2nd/3rd gear in the city, but anywhere below or above 3,000 and you're not going to attract any attention. I haven't done any highway driving with it, but knowing that 65 mph in 5th gear sits right around the 3k rpm mark, I am hoping there won't be too much drone. It's a bit loud starting off in 1st gear, but shifting right away would quiet it down. I love how the sound is a deeeeep tone, nothing ricey about this set up at ALL. Honestly the best $100 I have spent, and having the OEM welded back on will only run me $20.

Hopefully I can make a few videos of it to show everyone. Now I don't have to skip out on the tinting I wanted to do. I can have my exhaust set up (looking stock!) and tint for the same price I would have gotten the Greddy exhaust for (plus I don't think I would have liked the sound as much as I do with this cheaper set up).

BTW, I don't know if I would recommend this set up for Automatic, since I suspect there would be constant drone? :/ I could be wrong though!

Thanks!
Chris

I agree, the sound is great. Very OEM+…and if you've got an intake to go along with it it'll sound even better. The key to a good sounding exhuast on small engines is to focus more on intake noise IMO.

just wanted to share some of the pictures from the install today:

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Its not too bad actually, you just hear how much the car is constantly shifting which gets annoying. I usually drive with the paddles in sport anyways. You get a nice little backfire at about 2800 rpm while downshifting.
Here is my clip from in the car (recorded with basic digital camera):

Also of not is that I had mine done with the stock tubing size and a small tip to keep the stock look. The larger the tubing, the louder it will be and potentially get more resonation.

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At 70mph with the A/T the rpms sit around 2,500. Does it drone around that rpm, or is it pretty quiet?

-Dustin

Only drones under load. Unless you are going up hill, it stays very quiet.