Wow very lucky! Must have a hole in it or all the fibreglass has been blasted out the back as it's the loudest stock exhaust ive ever heardPure stock.
I'm at 2900kms and I reckon the loud button turned on at 2800, so I'm still not really sure I'm not just imagining it!
It's ok, but needs a bit more
Hi [MENTION=17603]wimbrow[/MENTION]
I 2nd this, I am really interested in a system with an adjustable volume, the Varex seems to be best option but I was a little concerned re sound when exhaust is turned down low, sounded a bit raspy. If you could also provide some details re cost of system plus install that would be of great help. Cheers.
Did you drill a hole in the bottom of the Whiteline bush ki. This helps eliminate the noise which is caused by the transmission harmonics.
Interested to hear your thoughts on this one.
I had the X-Force cat back with the varex mufflers installed today.Interested to hear your thoughts on this one.
My magnaflow comp cat back is now in the shed, absolutely loved the deep note, but the cabin noise drove me mad. Bit the bullet and went x-force engine back with the Varex mufflers. The Varex was supposed to have the active smart box fitted but they have run out of stock so for now it has the remote which can only open or close the valves fully. With them fully open holy crap is it loud, for comparison I had the MF cat back which I thought was a bit loud but not too much, this is insane. Find myself short shifting to avoid the risk of getting pulled over, but fully closed sounds wrong. I went for a run in a car fitted with one with the smart box and it was great so hoping that once this is fitted up I will have the best of both worlds, open fully at idle and low rpm, then have the valves close as the revs climb to tame it down a bit. On long drives when you have passengers you can put it in Prius mode if you want, or open it right up and smile depending on who you have in the car
Make sure you give it some time before you make your judgement, I have 900 km on the clock since it was fitted and the note has changed a fair bit already and I am sure it will still deepen up with more k's. I remember the same thing with the MF, it took around 1500 km to settle in.
I know most of us have seen pictures of the factory headers, and I am not engine or exhaust expert but the flow of exhaust gases from the drivers side rear cylinder to me look like they are seriously compromised by that tee piece they have grafted in. Apart from the restriction of having the pipe from the cylinder in front of it having this 90 deg tee into the pipe, where the join is the internal pipe curls over adding even more restriction. Can't be good for the engine in the long term in my humble opinion, and the main reason for the headers, instead of persevering and trying to get what I had fitted already to where I wanted it to be.
So up to version 3 now and hopefully the last, this is first time I have done an aftermarket exhaust and learning by my mistakes, but having fun on the way. And no I am not related to our young friend on here with the dozen different exhausts..........
Yep fully open at WOT is something else but bound to attract the wrong attention
Hi John,Yep fully open at WOT is something else but bound to attract the wrong attention
The first one I saw - heard - was at a do that Sinclair put on one night.
I was positive that you could adjust it and not just open or close.
I ordered mine with the "smart box", they have an active system that you program from your phone to open the valves different amounts depending on engine rpm speed etc, it plugs into the OBD connector under the dash to get the information from the car.
As they had run out of the boxes for now it has the 2 button remote with only fully open and close on it, as a temporary measure. But I was also sure the standard one was variable, maybe I was wrong ......
i might go headers and high flow cats at a later date.
