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How to repack a sealed muffler at home | Read now with GRM+

That muffler not sounding as pleasent as when you first bought it? Don' throw it out–repack it. Here's how.

Columns: What is your favorite engine sound?

We all have our favorite engine sounds and exhaust notes. What's yours?

Shop Work: How to build an inexpensive, quiet exhaust that doesn’t cost horsepower

Aftermarket exhaust systems are a great way to increase performance, but they can leave the neighbors plugging their ears and muttering. Here's how to find a good balance of performance, price and sound.

Shop Work: Tested: See how catalytic converters perform on the dyno

Are catalytic converters just a cork in the system?

Fabricating an exhaust header for our rare Elva sports racer

Our Elva sports racer arrived incomplete and unassembled. Among the missing parts, an exhaust header for its Coventry Climax engine.

While we saw a few pictures of what this …

Building an exhaust fit for a (Mustang) race car

Race car exhaust systems are usually pretty simple. To assist fabbing up an exhaust for our 1965 Ford Mustang race car, we went to Travis at

After 23 years, we finally got to put that Miata part to good use

Have you ever wondered who’s making that awful racket–and only to discover that it’s you?

We were driving back from Orlando–an hour on the highway–just minding our own business when …