26 What net wisdom exists on exhaust systems?
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26 What net wisdom exists on exhaust systems?
A:Gilette: Good balance for street and autocross & last
LONG. Some will debate that this is the best (stainless).
OEM supplier to VW. Leistritz: Good balance for street
and autocross. Galvanized. Note: Stock on VR6 Corrado &
Passats.
Supertrapps: GREAT for road racing and autocrossing but
way too loud for everyday life (rgolen@UMASSD.EDU)
OEM: More recent VW mufflers have improved to the point
that little can be done to improve them in street legal
performance or durability. Also keep in mind that VW now
offers lifetime warrantee on their replacement mufflers.
Remus makes some interesting exhausts with dual cat-
converters. Expensive though. Remus mufflers are
easthetically pleasing and almost too nice to use as
mufflers. Remus is much better known in Europe than the
USA.
Borla: Insufficient data. I believe New Dimensions is
using their final muffler.
Some of the performance shops now also make their own
exhaust systems [e.g., EuroSport, Techtonics, AutoTech,
Velocity Tuning] with galvanized or steel tubing and 3rd
party mufflers such as DynoMax. The quality of these
systems vary, and it's therefore hard to make a sweeping
generalization. Some work well, others don't. Check
around before you buy.
Unless you drive a beater and don't really care, avoid
Midas. Their mufflers are cheap, reduce power, don't
always fit right and they only offer a life time
warrantee on the mufflers and not on the tubes (which are
expensive, and the first to go).
See also the Exhausts archives on this!
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