Lets have a muffler thread

[Smokey Eddy]

RadoTD's Corrado is pretty sick though ...
I massacred my car on the pavement today going into a parking lot ...

[RadoTD]

RadoTD's Corrado is pretty sick though ...
I massacred my car on the pavement today going into a parking lot ...

Is it just your exhaust hitting? Your exhaust set up is awesome, it's just too bad that it hangs too far down there. Is there any way to pull it up further? I never took a good look at that

[Smokey Eddy]

it could come up about half an inch yes. that would greatly help. The real problem is that the tips come before the rear tires... so it literally is the lowest point by a long shot.

[R.O.R-2.0]

the only way for the exhaust to be under the car and not be the lowest part is if its in the tunnel, and there are no tunnel locations for the dual setup Ed has, so it just hangs under the body. a long way under the body. its some big pipe.

[zagarus]

Muffler? What's that 

Honestly with the TD's a straight pipe is very quiet compared to a regular gasser with 2 resonators and a muffler.  This I know from experience plus the turbo whistle is well worth going straight pipe

[R.O.R-2.0]

diesel vw w/ wastegated turbo = super loud when the wastegate opens! i imagine owens supercharged diesel would have been ridiculously loud with an open downpipe too..

[truckinwagen]

It was...

[R.O.R-2.0]

n/a's wouldnt even sound bad if they had the power to pull there rpm range in less than a minute. lol. but they just kinda sound gutless..


i gotta figure out how to safely drive an m90-eaton.

[Smokey Eddy]

the turbo response has gone down with the muffler but it is easily worth the lack of racket. the  noise was driving me nuts

[theman53]

This is in my thread and since it deals with a lack of muffler I thought I would post here too

.190 wall steel aluminized tubing, 3", no muffler from the turbo back, custom bent and installed, 6 week wait to get in, $108.10 USD total...quiet sounds of turbo=priceless 

[blackbird82]

1.9 AAZ T2 turbo straight pip3 2 1/4 inch, IS QUIETER than the factory 2 muffler crap I took off.
sounds nice, and quiet on highway.

[DieselBalz]

Sorry I keep resurfacing old threads but I have been lurking heavy now that I have the Eco running and officially my daily driver, (I will be updating my original thread here pretty soon with some pictures of my improvement) I have been heavy lurking and keep having questions pop up with all these awesome archives Im going through.

So here is the question this thread has sparked...
I havent been under the car yet (man I wish I had a lift, fat guys under cars is never good) but I plan on it because there is an annoying buzzing sound coming from under the car and it sounds exhaust related, but have seen the youtube vids with k14 straight back exhaust, and am definitely in love with the turbo sound coming out the back. So am heavily considering just swapping it.

So if I have access to a mandrel and someone who knows how to use it (builds roll cages with it), the TT down pipe, the right length of matching aluminized steel tubing, and the flex pipe, can the entire system be bolted? If it can be, are there any cons to having it all clamped? I plan on using the stock tunnel. With the DP being on the pricey side, I am trying to keep the cost and install of the rest of the system down as much as possible. I dont know a lick about welding and know it isnt cheap.

Thanks!

[theman53]

I had my downpipe on. Drove the car in the night before the next night I handed the guy 108.10 and drove away with 3" all the way back. If you are buying everything and doing it yourself it should be cheaper. To me it wasn't worth it to try to do it myself as I don't have a lift either.
Thinking about it, 1/2 of the cost of mine would probably be pipe. Having him do it saved more than 100.00 of my frustration, so if you can find a local shop that isn't too pricey I would go that route.

to answer your questions: Sounds like the heat sheild maybe buzzing on the pipe. It is easily bent out of the way by hand. The deal could all be bolted with flanges and that would be sweet. You could weld the joints. I had mine clamped, because if I need it to come apart I can get it apart and back together without welding so much.

[bajacalal]

I just got this 2.5 inch straight through muffler on mine and a 2.5" exhaust pipe back from the turbo downpipe and it's WAY TOO LOUD... mk2, TD... it's really not bad until I go up hill or put my foot into in and when the wastegate opens (I think), it gets really loud, really fast. It's a loud buzz. After the long hill my ears ring. The muffler also terminates too close to the bumper which draws exhaust fumes in. But it is noticeably faster and more fun to drive than stock...

I really need to figure out what to do. I'm thinking of using a Magnaflow muffler, somebody mentioned they make one for diesels, a straight-through muffler like I have now, just longer and larger with a longer tip on it and maybe even adding a resonator as well... Any ideas?

[R.O.R-2.0]

best piece of advise i can give you, is get rid of the fart can.. they are basically only good for honda, acura, and nissan gassers. lol..

beware of the magnaflow mufflers, ive dealt with lots of cracked and burnt out magna-flows..

flowmaster and magnaflow both make diesel mufflers, but they are more intended for diesel pickups, not diesel cars..

ever seen a Moroso spiral flow muffler? they look like they would work AWESOME on our small diesels..