As an update I finally passed. I rigged up a 1" tailpipe to the back of the magnaflow. I got about 4" sticking into the flowmaster and about 4" sticking out of it. It made a world of a difference, the car sounds pretty much stock. I think many of our exhausts are so loud is becasue we really don't have any room for a tailpipe if we mount the muffler in its stock location. As an excersise I might try to run a 90 degree bend out the back of the flowmaster then run a tailpipe under the car parallel to the rear bumper and dump the tail pipe under the driver's side rear, opposite the stock location. A good 4 foot of 2.5" tailpipe should quiet down the exhaust significantly over no tailpipe at all.