Friday, August 17, 2012 - 08:25 pm, by: Daniel Marshall(Ydass)
ive recently purchased a manual 1uz soarer and the exhaust on it is 2-1/2 straight through to a hotdog into the rear muffler. both sides are seperate and dont merge.
my other soarer has a 2-1/4 all the way through merge into a centre muffler and seperate into 2 rear mufflers.
the new one sounds like a subaru lol
my other one sounds tough.
what setup would be good? i want something nice but grows when you get up it. my white soarer sounds good but just wanted to see what other setups are out
Saturday, August 18, 2012 - 11:18 am, by: John Mills(John_v8)
Daniel..Get your exhaust guy to fit a merge or kiss pipe to the system.That should stop it sounding like a Subaru,also it will give you a better balanced exhaust note..post up some pics of your Soarers and an under body shot of the exhaust systems mate.
Monday, August 20, 2012 - 04:27 pm, by: Chris Ryan(Ryzan)
I have dual 2 1/4 straight through with Rush extractors, hotdogs, and Hooker mufflers, and I love it (nothing like a Subaru)
I have noticed that mufflers make a huge difference to the exhaust note.
Had cannons on it when I bought it, which sounded good, but waaaay too loud. Changed to cheap oval mufflers (for rego) which sounded like it was driving under water.
Finally changed to the Hookers, which I'm really impressed with. Deep rumble and not too load when driving normally, then gives a nice bark when you get up it.
Monday, August 20, 2012 - 07:23 pm, by: Ben Lipman(Ben12a)
So you rate the Hookers Chris?
LOL not what I meant.
Are they the Hooker Aero chamber mufflers? I am looking to build a single 3 inch system for the race car, with a single muffler. Needs to be under 96Db at 30m, so not too hard to achieve.
Whatever I buy, it is going to be something 'straight through' and pretty cheap.
Wednesday, August 22, 2012 - 12:16 am, by: Andrew Wilson(Ajwilson999)
Lukey ultraflow on the rear and rush extractors will have it purring like a nice 32valve v8 (think C class AMG not Commodore V8)
I would get rid of any hotdog mufflers or canons!
Also you can get the kiss pipe, x pipe etc however the more oldschool v8 rumble will come from two separate pipes. There is a few KW to be gained from the X pipe though.
I have Rush extractors (2.25") through magnaflow high flow cats into a twin 2.25" system with X pipe in the middle and then splits again before coming into twin lukey ultra flows. DO IT - awesome. No drone in cabin when driving only when accelerating which is good for the jacks.
Wednesday, August 22, 2012 - 03:10 pm, by: Andrew Wilson(Ajwilson999)
Extractors bring the lumpy sound. I have had the cat's back for about 4 months and within the last 3 weeks finally had the extractors put on. you can hear the pulse of air as each cylinder works.
I found the cat-back and muffler jsut made it sound 'loud' and with more bass. Like a 6 cylinder. Lexus have been so restrictive to suit their market that the extractors really let out that burbling v8 noise.
Mike Beck Goo Roo New Zealand BMW E36 Coupe 1UZFE V8 340i
Thursday, August 23, 2012 - 12:07 am, by: Mark Peters(Honky)
Nice looking setup Daniel. How do extractors go with noise volume? Im currently running cat back 2.25" straight pipe with two 3.5" cannons on the ends, and its quite loud. Probably not quite legal. Does sound very nice though. Wondering if i installed a set if it would make it any more louder?
Friday, August 24, 2012 - 10:18 am, by: James Buchan(Jrbuch)
Yeah it makes it louder. More raspy and angrier. A catback has the burble whereas with extractors it growls. Look at the standard exhaust manifold vs the Rush extractors. They're so small and restrictive, so when you put better ones on there, it really livens the engine up
Friday, August 24, 2012 - 02:36 pm, by: Andrew Wilson(Ajwilson999)
If you want to quieten it down go the Lukey ultraflows double offset. Nice and subtle, no drone, and has that throaty v8 sound with the foot down, especially past 2500 rpm
Saturday, September 08, 2012 - 12:15 pm, by: Callum Allen(T93)
Would you still have the V8 rumble at idle and low load with the double offset lukey mufflers? Or would it sound virtually stock under those conditions?
And anyone able to explain, how the X/Kiss pipe adds power?
Mike Beck Goo Roo New Zealand BMW E36 Coupe 1UZFE V8 340i
Saturday, September 08, 2012 - 12:38 pm, by: Mike Beck(Gold_40gt)
Callum Allen wrote on Saturday, September 08, 2012 - 12:15 pm:
Would you still have the V8 rumble at idle and low load with the double offset lukey mufflers? Or would it sound virtually stock under those conditions?
The above clips that Peter N shared show his UZZ30 that had Lukey double offsets, 2.5" to the stock cats with no balancers, I did much the same system back in 2007 after taking his advice.
I had Lukey Ultra flo double offset mufflers too, accept 2.25" tube to the cats, no balancers.
It sounded great, this average clip only does some of the rumble and depth justice..
Callum Allen wrote on Saturday, September 08, 2012 - 12:15 pm:
And anyone able to explain, how the X/Kiss pipe adds power?
It's generally something that has been proven to make a difference at high RPM in Nascar racing etc...
They call it the scavenging effect, it's to do with the pulses generated by each cylinder bank - Google it and you will find someone that can explain it in a technical manner.
People go on about it as though it's important for a road car to have an X pipe to make slightly more power, but I think it's a waste of time, I imagine it's only going to have an effect if your doing 6,000+ rpm everywhere, plus on a stock engine with stock cam profiles, restricted ports, an economy ECU, I think that it's hardly important!
For me an X pipe, or worse a kiss pipe spoils the V8 note, I like a V8 with no balancers so it gives a more mellow, sonorous sound as apposed to a more aggressive, raspy note the X pipe gives.
It can also sound great, but just depends what your style is!
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