Is mufflerectomy easy to live with?

[holty]

Hello everyone,
I've been quoted £75.00 to have my back box replaced with a straight through pipe with a tip of my choice.
Quite reasonable I think.
My main question is.Does anybody regret having theirs done? Does the 'Darth Vader' noise get annoying at all?
I think I like the sound from the vids I've seen.
Opinions most welcome.

 

[Husbandofstinky]

ChrisGTL had his done and the drone eventually did his head in. Went for a Milltek in the end.

Very much a personal preference but not for me either.

 

[Ultra_Joel88]

Doing things by halves IMHO

 

[holty]

Doing things by halves IMHO

I know what you mean,but there's no way I can afford/justify a whole new system at the moment.
I could possibly free up a couple of horses & have an oval tip which I would like, for a fraction of the cost.
Will ponder it until pay day!

 

[UncleFester]

I know what you mean,but there's no way I can afford/justify a whole new system at the moment.
I could possibly free up a couple of horses & have an oval tip which I would like, for a fraction of the cost.
Will ponder it until pay day!

As long as your rear shelf is in and your seats are up .... it's fine - also make sure the tip of the exhaust comes out past the end of the bumper. It's not that loud

 

[holty]

Probably a VERY silly question.
Why should the tip come past the end of the bumper?
Is it a melting thing?
Do you have one (mufflerectomy) Mr.Fester?

 

[DIFT]

It should come past the bumper as it will sound quieter, and will decrease the amount of soot that gets stuck to your boot.

Mine is very pleasent to live with, certainly doesn't drone, or sound too loud.
I think a cat back mufflerectomy would be perfect. I only get a very quiet pidgeon noise, no darth vader noises for me.

 

[Nutkin]

oooh 75 where from, i have a cupra bodykit going on and this would be a nice cheap way of getting an exhaust in the hole lol


although i want a star shaped tip

 

[holty]

It should come past the bumper as it will sound quieter, and will decrease the amount of soot that gets stuck to your boot.

Mine is very pleasent to live with, certainly doesn't drone, or sound too loud.
I think a cat back mufflerectomy would be perfect. I only get a very quiet pidgeon noise, no darth vader noises for me.

I think I'm sold on the idea now.
Pidgeons, I can live with!
Possibly a wee bit throatier with the 'ectomy too?

 

[brad1]

Yeah, cat back like you are doing just removing the back box should be fine, removing the cat like me makes it louder lol, i found it much louder and the whoooosh (pigeon noise) is mental lol, i have a milltek 2.5" downpipe decat with straigh through pipe, soon i am going to get a milltek downpipe, same as ive got, with a small sillencer, not that the noise does my head, the soot that my car produces and the boot is a state after a day or so, so maybe a small silencer will reduce smoke aswell

 

[holty]

I'm going to do it! Roll on payday!!!!!
I'll eventually start a reader's ride thread and get some pics up!

 

[basssound]

I've done it, cost me £70 at my local place, the noise is easy to live with daily, infact I ****ing love it especially this time of year with the windowns down lol.
Makes a loverly barbelling noise IMO!!!

 

[brightsideteeem]

im also thinking about a mufflerectomy. These noise adjectives are quite confusing.

Can anyone elaborate? Also, i was thinking of fully straight though, including decat, as a cat isnt required to pass an MOT on diesel is it?

 

[holty]

im also thinking about a mufflerectomy. These noise adjectives are quite confusing.

Can anyone elaborate? Also, i was thinking of fully straight though, including decat, as a cat isnt required to pass an MOT on diesel is it?

If you search under mufflerectomy and have a wee dig,you'll find some vid clips of the so called 'pigeon' noises
You can pass your MOT aye.
Removing the cat will bring more noise I'm led to believe.

 

[Hobbiniho]

If you search under mufflerectomy and have a wee dig,you'll find some vid clips of the so called 'pigeon' noises
You can pass your MOT aye.
Removing the cat will bring more noise I'm led to believe.

if the exhaust is louder than standard it will fail the mot this is a new law just been introduced as one of my friends told me as he works at a mot station and has seen a couple of cars failing because of it

 

[brightsideteeem]

if the exhaust is louder than standard it will fail the mot this is a new law just been introduced as one of my friends told me as he works at a mot station and has seen a couple of cars failing because of it

Wrong I'm afraid. Its only if it fails the emmissions

 

[Nutkin]

if the exhaust is louder than standard it will fail the mot this is a new law just been introduced as one of my friends told me as he works at a mot station and has seen a couple of cars failing because of it

thats nonsense, theres just a noise limit.


Why should my car HAVE to be quieter than a TVR ?

 

[brightsideteeem]

i thought he was wrong yesterday, but just to be sure i asked one of the MOT guys from next door. lol

 

[willives]

I think it depends on who carrys out the test. A lad at work has got a Golf Gti with just a cat and straight through pipework, and it is VERY loud.

He took it for an mot the other day and it passed with no problems.

 

[brightsideteeem]

No it dosnt, there actually are noise limits, but its mainly for times of day, and area. i cant remember the facts, but i know theres a law, it's at the testers descrection really, if they think it is riddiculously loud, they CAN fail it, but ive never heard of it. As long as it passes emmisions, 9 times out 10, it will pass.