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Quieting down the car? Exhaust vs Engine?

I'm fairly sure my car's pretty loud.  Of course it's hard to say without a decibel meter.  But I'm almost embarrassed turning it on for my neighbors (and try to avoid pulling back home later at night), it sort of tires out me/passengers after say 15 min of driving, and in small downtown strips it turns heads before I even pass the pedestrians.  The silver lining of that last one is that people get a good early look at the car and give thumbs up, which is fun, but I don't think it's worth the "headache."

More specifically, it sounds very much like a motorcycle as opposed to the smooth hum of this original that was recently posted in another thread: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4rnBcnflXvE.  If it were an outlaw style speedster or an American muscle car, then loud would've been great.

I've been told that installing any of these would cut noise:



I'd appreciate any wisdom on any of this.  Attaching some photos of the engine & exhaust system in case that's helpful:

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