/\ I agree with Allen 100% on this.
I never had any "rice" sound either with my glasspack.
I took off my glasspack thinking that a Magnaflow muffler in it's place would sound good...
I am very disappointed in how my car sounds. I want my glasspack back on as it sounded so much better.
My daughter has an SE, I got her an SVT exhaust with a glasspack and it sounds very good! No rasp at all. Nice deep tone to it.
