kennysti wrote:Nice one Patrick! Looking very clean so far. Just on the topic of exhausts, When I had my ultrex system and phat DP done I was running the 4" single tip mufflers and it was actually a nice and reasonably comfortable volume even on my wagon. As soon as I went to the twin tips it was crazy loud (remember my twin tips are even bigger than yours at dual 3" a side!!!) I'm confident with a stock centre and just my mufflers it would be a nice volume but I really want the flow for my power mods. Might be something to consider if you arent chasing super big numbers, just put the stock centre back on and see how it goes?
Hey Jacob. Ok thanks for that - Incidentally I was thinking the same thing. I went to Mettams in Morley and they've suggested swapping the muffs back to stock for me to drive to Esperance for my roadtrip (and come back with eardrums still intact). So they'll fit them on tomorrow morning and see what happens. After my roadtrip we'll re-evaluate.
I guess its more than likely that it's the muffs that are loud. From that standpoint its hard to tell what kind of packing is in them, etc etc.
So IF it is really the mufflers...I have a few options:
1. Stay with the stock mufflers (not sure if this presents restriction problems)...But my uncle in Singapore did just the dump and a tune..and had excellent driveability.
2. Go to STI quad setup ...Love the looks plus the nice sound it has..BUT its kind of try hard because you can see the "STI" imprints on the tips..so thats kinda off putting..but the sound is tempting. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cLqvYJg4Vcw
3. Explore other options. They have suggested X-Force. From the few videos I've seen they sound tinny, but its hard to tell from phone cameras. Estimated muffler costs $500 for non-varex and almost $900-$1k for the Varex ones (not a firm quote at this point as I didn't ask any further just yet). Somehow..not as nice sounding as the stock STI muffs.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4l1yJBOWnQ
4. Forget about the bloody quads look and just go to an ulrex dual tip (non-quad) system.
Ideas?