Mk7 Exhaust Tech. How to get the sound you want.

HighQuality_H20 said:

should i buy this and put it on a stock exhaust??????????????


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Supermoto said:

In my opinion, don't do it. Our engines don't really sound that amazing to be honest. The stock catback is very well designed for tone and volume, when paired with a downpipe it sounds mean when you want it to and calm when you dont. But the key is the tone is very nice and clean. When you get a catback like borla, AWE, or even Rev9 (350 bucks), they are designed to make your engine sound louder, yes, but with a much nicer tone, more rumble, and all that.

Running a remote valve post-downpipe that dumps exhaust straight out is going to sound ridiculously loud, but it also will not have a good tone to it. It is going to sound extremely cheap and tacky, probably rather hollow and tinny. On mustangs, camaros, old v8s, etc one of these can sound mean as hell (theres a dude that lives next to me with an old mustang with this setup, sounds amazing), but our engines are not that.. We need all the refinement we can get to help our little turbo 4 bangers sound good, so basically running an open downpipe is going to sound god awful. If you want to keep the stock downpipe but sound better on a budget, grab the rev9 catback for 350 bucks and throw that on the car.

All that being said this is speculative as I have not (and will not ) run one of these, and opinion plays a huge part. I might fully well be completely wrong. If you like the sound, forget everything I said and do what makes you happy.

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WhyNotZoidberg? said:

Just to give props to GTI Jake for the Vibrant resonator, after driving around with the stock res & EuroCode catted DP for about a month, I was really hating the drone, the car and my life, especially on the highway.

Put the 17930 Vibrant res on today and OMFG!!! all drone is gone, and I mean ALL OF IT!!

I have as much drone as when the car left VW's plant. Thanks, Jake!

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timor said:

Hi, I sell my gti perf 7.1 ( bcs downpipe only), and I will receive my 7.2.
I do 35000km (22000 miles) per year with this car.
And Im looking for a valved catback... but when its close, I want the sound like OEM.
Armytrix? IPE? remus? milltek or another option?


thanks

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timor said:

Hi, I sell my gti perf 7.1 ( bcs downpipe only), and I will receive my 7.2.
I do 35000km (22000 miles) per year with this car.
And Im looking for a valved catback... but when its close, I want the sound like OEM.
Armytrix? IPE? remus? milltek or another option?


thanks

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snakcaz said:

Currently got a CTS catted dp with stock res. And muffler.

Just bought a CSS muffler. Hoping to replace the stock muffler.

I've already read that its going to drone. So if the drone gets that bad,

Then would I order the 2.5" 17930 vibrant res?

Or with new info, is it just better to somehow fit the 3" 17950 vibrant res now?

Im also stage 2 unitronic with overrun/crackle.

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bluedoggiant said:

What about a Vibrant 1119 instead of a 17950, thoughts? Its essentially the same thing except w packing, would it not do double duty of muffling and also help w drone?

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GIACUser said:

Just thought I would add a choice to the thread. I am doing a build of my MKV GTI with built motor and EFR 7163 that will be a strong runner that will see street and track use.

I too have experimented with exhausts over the years only to find that the motor essentially has a voice and you can change the volume of that voice and get rid of unwanted harmonics but it always sounds pretty much the same. My favorite has been the 42Draft Design system with hi-flo cat 200cell, resonator and Magnaflow muffler. I was running this for last 4 years. Initially no drone, fairly quiet even under acceleration and this was on 335whp K04 setup. After about a year or two it was much louder and drone was starting to come in.

The most impressive car I have ridden in was a twin turbo LS6 powered GTO. It was about 800rwhp but the most impressive part was how quiet it was. This was at a GTO meet and it sounded unlike any of the other cars including my 600whp supercharged GTO that was magnaflow equipped. It just quietly and forcefully shoved you back in the seat. Owner told me that he had used Burns Quiet Mufflers.


So I am looking to do something similar in my GTI build that should end up around 500whp when I am done with it.

The quiet part is generally hard to achieve without ruining flow. Burns Stainless in Costa Mesa California makes what they call their quiet muffler and it is quiet and flows very well. That is what I am going to use for my build. My goal is to have a very fast but very stock looking and sounding car.

So for folks that want performance but don't want to have your neighbors hear you coming from a mile away this may be something you want to look at. Understood that many want louder than stock exhausts. Just not for me anymore.

Note - Mufflers wear and get louder over time. Nice thing about the Burns muffler is that they are re-packable. You just order new packing to get back to original sound when they wear.

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