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I'm looking for a replacement exhaust for my bay. The current one sounds terrible and I think it is costing me loads of HP. Tried to source a standard box with pea shooters but after trying to fit two different ones offered I am sorry to say have given up....

Let's see what you guys and gals are running...... And if possible give us some feedback on it... Likes/dislikes

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I don't have pics for you. But, when I bought Skilpad (69 westy), she was fitted with one of those cheap-ass 4-1s with just a resonator and no silencer. It sounded like an aeroplane.

I soon got sick of the noise and took it around to Speedy's and got them to fit a regular car silencer in place of the resonator, and to extend the outlet to exit at the corner like a stock exhaust. The larger silencer tucked very nicely inside the rear valence. And the sound was great! Probably the cheapest and most effective route for replacing a bay exhaust.
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Gill's bus has a nice quiet exhaust. Also a 4-1 collector and then it turns driver side, then towards the front through a silencer, then across to the left side, and towards the back through another silencer and out the back on the left hand side. Nice.
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Im running an SP pipe,and it sound wicked!
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fig wrote:I don't have pics for you. But, when I bought Skilpad (69 westy), she was fitted with one of those cheap-ass 4-1s with just a resonator and no silencer. It sounded like an aeroplane.

I soon got sick of the noise and took it around to Speedy's and got them to fit a regular car silencer in place of the resonator,

This I think is the same one I am running. Was Thinking of doing the same but a lot of the speedy type shops in my area don't like doing work on the buses as they can make more money just fitting STD stuff to toasters. I will enquire though again and maybe I get lucky.
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Sambabus wrote:Im running an SP pipe,and it sound wicked!

Is this the one from Volkspares? Was there any fitting issues? Does it provide any HP benefit?
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Ron&Gill wrote:Gill's bus has a nice quiet exhaust. Also a 4-1 collector and then it turns driver side, then towards the front through a silencer, then across to the left side, and towards the back through another silencer and out the back on the left hand side. Nice.
Ron, is this a STD, out of the shop exhaust like a kadron or empi quiet pack or did you have it made up?
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My opinion is go to a custom exhaust place like DeGraaf or Cheetah exhausts and let them make you a stainless exhaust to suite your needs. Pay the money once and forget about it.
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beetlefanatic wrote:My opinion is go to a custom exhaust place like DeGraaf or Cheetah exhausts and let them make you a stainless exhaust to suite your needs. Pay the money once and forget about it.
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That is good thinking....
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fig wrote:I don't have pics for you. But, when I bought Skilpad (69 westy), she was fitted with one of those cheap-ass 4-1s with just a resonator and no silencer. It sounded like an aeroplane.

I soon got sick of the noise and took it around to Speedy's and got them to fit a regular car silencer in place of the resonator, and to extend the outlet to exit at the corner like a stock exhaust. The larger silencer tucked very nicely inside the rear valence. And the sound was great! Probably the cheapest and most effective route for replacing a bay exhaust.
Those resonators are loud enough to set off alarms in carparks etc. :twisted:

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Post by supervly »

This something we were playing with a few years ago - the 1.9 & 2.1 waterpumpers exhaust 4 into 1 fit if you cut off and reweld on left side banks flanges - you then have a very neat central collector at right rear of car and you can easily add whaterver silencer you want in traight line out to the rear

We did a few of those on beetles too . nice neat conversion
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