MKV Mufflerectomy complete

[mikinoz]

This morning I have had the rear muffler removed and some chrome tips added. I think that there is no noticeable difference on the city driving to the noise produced but will get on the highway this weekend for the drone test. Was cheaper to have the muffler removed and tip added than getting tips on to the muffler too!

[GoLfMan]

there shouldnt be any drone at highway speeds mate shouldnt notice any difference over stock

well my car didnt drone anyway!!!!

looks like a tidy job, the tips suit it well

[Greg Roles]

There's a real burble 1600 - 1800rpm, and when you do a long back off at the right revs you'll hear it, but 95% of the time you'd never know. No more noise in cabin at speed, at least in my opinion.

It is a good feeling to ditch that massive pancake though eh?

[mikinoz]

Taken some highway drives now, and the note is deeper ever so slightly.

At idle it sounds better.

The soot now makes awesome swirly patters when you boot it too!

All around awesome mod.

[Buller_Scott]

what was your main motivation to do it? removal of that dead weight?

[Greg Roles]

Less restriction, better response, diesel now sounds quite "sporty" at certain revs. I like it a lot, and look forward to a decent full system. There is also enough weight in it to give Polar a seizure.

[mikinoz]

My motivation was it was cheaper to remove the muffler than add chome tips to it - so off she came and saved me about $100!

Yes it feel smoother as it comes on to boost. I don't have a DPF, so the soot out the back it heaps more evident than the downswept outlets.

[Buller_Scott]

hmmm. another thing on the short term to do list. sounds good.

and, not that im big on road rage [i abhor tailgating], but sooting does come in handy when one feels like playing god every now and then. straight through as opposed to downswept eh?

have you had the dp done miki?

[mikinoz]

I have stock down pipe - no DPF as it was the 103KW model.

[poyta]

Anyone done this to a DPF equipped TDI? I need to do something like this on my GT because I've got an R32 rear bar for it now so Its the easiest way to get the outlets to go out the centre.