Exhaust grumble?

[gldgti]

I guess subtle can be pretty subjective.

I thought my old mk3 had a nice exhaust note...

full noise on the dyno but from infront....
VW Golf 3 AAZ TurboDiesel (not TDI) - YouTube

better one of the noise just after I put in the T3 turbo


I had 2.5" exhaust from the turbo back, with no cat, a short "hotdog" resonator about halfway and a straight through short rear muffler. even so, it was pretty darned quiet.

With the stock turbo it made a lot less noise with the same exhaust system. actually, that exhaust system with the stock turbo made no more noise than the stock exhaust, which was 2" - Cat, 1.75" the rest of the way with 2 mufflers.

I hope that helps.

[AlexRO]

you should have a look at this guy

VWVortex.com - Anyone have the APR Carbonio TDI intake for the Jetta MkVI?

just scroll down a little and play that video ..


and here is a drive by

[Greg Roles]

Wow that actually sounds GOOD for a diesel!

I can only hope mine gets that sort of noise...

[vk]

Wow that actually sounds GOOD for a diesel!

I can only hope mine gets that sort of noise...

So im going to bump this back up, as I am once again interested in playing around with this, are there any new discoveries?
I was going to do a muffler delete, but apparently that is useless for any sound, I just want some sound, all I can hear is engine noise haha.

Getting a miltek catback.. that wont do anything without a downpipe? which involves bypassing DPF, which involves retuning for the dpf delete, which in turn, is illegal to have no dpf. haha

So are there any new discoveries?

[nightphotographer]

I had a milltek cat-back exhaust on old Fabia VRS PD130 which was tuned - it didn't have a down-pipe suprisingly but EGR delete, custom code tune with a Forge FMIC and LWFW + everything else - it drove really well. Anyways - that had a really nice exhaust tone to it, which you could hear over the engine. I've got some old videos floating around on an old hard drive - I can try and find them to put them up if you want. I had a SEAT Leon FR with the CR 125kw Diesel engine - that sounded pretty nice too and that was stock.

[vk]

I had a milltek cat-back exhaust on old Fabia VRS PD130 which was tuned - it didn't have a down-pipe suprisingly but EGR delete, custom code tune with a Forge FMIC and LWFW + everything else - it drove really well. Anyways - that had a really nice exhaust tone to it, which you could hear over the engine. I've got some old videos floating around on an old hard drive - I can try and find them to put them up if you want. I had a SEAT Leon FR with the CR 125kw Diesel engine - that sounded pretty nice too and that was stock.

Are these DPF cars though?

[nightphotographer]

Nah the Fabia wasn't but the FR was - maybe SEAT did something different with their exhaust system to VW - they do have a habit of taking VW's and making them a lot better to drive.

I don't know Australian road rules too well, but it isn't illegal to have no DPF in the UK, just a CAT.

[vk]

Nah the Fabia wasn't but the FR was - maybe SEAT did something different with their exhaust system to VW - they do have a habit of taking VW's and making them a lot better to drive.

I don't know Australian road rules too well, but it isn't illegal to have no DPF in the UK, just a CAT.

Hmm, Im quite new to this, does the downpipe bypass the dpf and then connect to the cat, or does it completely remove both?

Either way, from all the reading I have done, removing the DPF seems to be illegal in aus

[nightphotographer]

Yeah it's a toughy, I was pretty nervous doing an emissions test after having the EGR removed on the VRS - but it passed as if it had just come out of the factory. I bet DPF's don't make much difference to emissions anyways, but I wouldn't want to risk it or pay for it to be done. Just leave it as it is

[vk]

Yeah it's a toughy, I was pretty nervous doing an emissions test after having the EGR removed on the VRS - but it passed as if it had just come out of the factory. I bet DPF's don't make much difference to emissions anyways, but I wouldn't want to risk it or pay for it to be done. Just leave it as it is

How much did it cost to do an emissions test?