muffler choice for wagon

[thommo63]

its probably in here somewhere but just want info/experience with changing mufflers on a manual wagon in terms of drone/note etc. i just want to improve the note outside the car without comprising the interior sound.

[yipming]

Unfortunately with wagon, any extra volume on the outside seems to be amplified on the inside.

With stock dump/mid pipe, after market muffler can still be tolerated. They resonate around 2.5 - 3 k rpm but you can short shift to avoid it. Auto aren't as fortunate and will drone a bit when on the throttle.

With 3" TBE, you will find a lot of people put their stock muffler back on as the noise is simply too much (myself included). The performance penalty isn't too much and most prefer such compromise.

Sedans don't seems to suffer from such problem with people running TBE with no complains.

[thommo63]

i drive a H6 spec b so is the TBE the same and excuse my ignorance but the TBE is what. should i improve the exhaust up to rear mufflers and tune?

[Kekotic]

i drive a H6 spec b so is the TBE the same and excuse my ignorance but the TBE is what. should i improve the exhaust up to rear mufflers and tune?

TBE means Turbo back exhaust, meaning dump pipe, centre and mufflers all being non standard. Being a H6 you should look in to the headers Tradewind is making and centre + mufflers.

[3rspecb]

i drive a H6 spec b so is the TBE the same and excuse my ignorance but the TBE is what. should i improve the exhaust up to rear mufflers and tune?

TBE means Turbo back exhaust, meaning dump pipe, centre and mufflers all being non standard. Being a H6 you should look in to the headers Tradewind is making and centre + mufflers.

Good post

[jeffas4966]

Hi Guys,
I fitted a full TBE from TCP Auto. The exhaust quality is excellent but the noise/drone inside the car was so bad that I had to put the original mufflers back on. Noise is OK now. If you have a non-turbo car you won't get huge performance benefits, just a reminder. If your only after noise then I would suggest you keep as std.

Cheers

Jeff