Cheapest place I found for Magnaflow for Z3 3.0

[Corellian Corve]

Ordered this yesterday from a place called Hottexhaust.com. Was able to get the full Magnaflow system for $898 shipped. They have a 20% off coupon for 2021 that brought the price down to the cheapest I've seen. Not "cheap" by any means, but the lowest I've seen. If you're considering getting one this is pretty good!

[Master Crash]

exhaust components of any kind are ridiculously expensive for these cars. The M's are way worse. I gave up a long time ago and I am making the pipes for my rig. Don't want to cut the cats out of the stock midpipe, so I ordered a bunch of stainless and a couple resonators, and I am going to be getting started some time this week.

[Corellian Corve]

I'll be curious what the savings are going that route. For $900 a full system, with cats and mufflers, all the way the length of the car, seems like a fair price. I'd pay that much or more to have a shop fab something up.

I think the later systems are much more expensive because the only connection is all the way down at the exhaust collectors. Unlike the earlier systems which split after the Cat and before the rear muffler.

I also don't weld too good.

[Master Crash]

Point taken and I agree with you in that regard. You made a good find and it was cool of you to share it with the community. Now that you put it that way, I will have a look at that website.

[Corellian Corve]

Point taken and I agree with you in that regard. You made a good find and it was cool of you to share it with the community. Now that you put it that way, I will have a look at that website.

Hey if you can weld and bend pipes, no doubt cheaper to do yourself. I can do a lot of things but I'm an "emergency" welder quality guy. And with all the bends it would take me FOREVER to get it to fit right, and still probably a couple hundred in materials. So your point is fair as well!

[Master Crash]

For me -- the materials are already ordered and I am committed to the project. I am just interested in seeing what is out there. My point was that I did not want to detract from your contribution because there are more people who could probably benefit.

EDIT: Yeah, I just used to the pull downs on the website to search M type exhaust components and they don't seem to offer any. 2.5's and 3.0's seem to be it.

[Pima Roadster]

Magnaflow makes nice stuff. Get back to the forum on how the system sounds when compared to the OEM. I am a fan of the Remus exhaust system & familiar with how they sound but NLA for the 3.0. What you are installing is one of the systems I am considering for the future.

[Corellian Corve]

Magnaflow makes nice stuff. Get back to the forum on how the system sounds when compared to the OEM. I am a fan of the Remus exhaust system & familiar with how they sound but NLA for the 3.0. What you are installing is one of the systems I am considering for the future.

FOR SURE. I'll take some video of the sound as well. Looking forward to checking it out.

[Tim95M3]

For $900 a full system, with cats and mufflers

Your cats are in the manifolds... I don't think the Magnaflow system came with headers?

[Kram71]

Excuse my ignorance but do people get this mostly for sound? What do you guys think of those electric cutouts instead?

[PaulSK]

It appears nothing for 1996 1.9

[Corellian Corve]

Your cats are in the manifolds... I don't think the Magnaflow system came with headers?

Really? I thought the Cat was the long portion under the driver's seat. I didn't look closely. So these cars have 2 manifolds then?

[BimmerBreaker]

Your M roadster has cats under the floorpan, maybe you were confusing the 3.0 system with that

Your 3.0 has cats built into the headers - one on each bank, so yes - you could say two manifolds - one for the first 3 cylinders, one for the rear 3 cylinders

The box lookin thing towards the front of the 3.0 system is a resonator, not a catalytic converter. The guys who buy my catalytic converters for scrap get disappointed every time they find that out

[s8ilver]

Really? I thought the Cat was the long portion under the driver's seat. I didn't look closely. So these cars have 2 manifolds then?

Cats are built into the 3-1 manifolds. Real OEM calls the mid sections "front mufflers."

https://www.realoem.com/bmw/enUS/sho...diagId=11_6218
https://www.realoem.com/bmw/enUS/sho...diagId=18_0431

[kbollox]

As an 01 owner this is interesting to read... Happy I'm not in the market for an exhaust!

Thought: straight pipe after the cat? anyone got a video of how that sounds on a 2.5 or 3.0?

[Corellian Corve]

Thanks all probably confused between the two systems. Plus that resonator looks like a Cat (like the old ones on my w126 cars)

Still, I'm going to say that $900 doesn't feel terrible. But I'll post up how the fit and how they sound and y'all can be the judge.

[BladeRunner919]

I thought the biggest cost problem with the Magnaflows is that people spend all the money and then end up removing them because they can't stand the drone?

[fignewton]

When I bought my car, a 98 2.8, it had the MF cat back system on it, and I could not stand the drone, even after doing Dynamat and other things to try to tone it down. (See other posts about MF). Much happier witih the SuperSprint

[Cos270]

My s52 came with the magnaflow muffler when i bought the car. Sounded pretty good above 5K and didn't drone at idle. Anything above 1.5K and below 5K was unbearable, though. The drone literally shook the windows and trim. Couldn't get rid of it fast enough.

[IndianaRoadster]

A friend of mine with a M roadster has MF's and it does sound good and mean at start up but once on the road it does become quite annoying. I'll stay with my super sprints.

[Corellian Corve]

I thought the biggest cost problem with the Magnaflows is that people spend all the money and then end up removing them because they can't stand the drone?

I've historically found Magnaflow on other cars to be quite good with drone, since they tend to not wake up until higher RPM. At least on my other cars.

On my M Roadster, I have a set of Remus mufflers the PO put on, and they drone terribly between 2K and 4K.

[BimmerBreaker]

Drones are the future anyways, haven't you guys seen wall-e?

(actually, I haven't seen it, I'm just making an assumption about what that movie is about for the sake of a bad joke)

[Z3Fighter]

When you install this, do you need to perform a tuning.

I got a quote from my local shop for this exhaust system for $1,100 and they said this about tuning:

”Tuning will come in around $500 and will provide speed limiter cut, raise in rev limit, more HP and Torque, better throttle response and smoother engine running.”

[Z3Fighter]

I just registered for the code and my grand total is $960 w/ Free SH. Dang I’m so tempted!