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Omega Help Area => Omega General Help => Topic started by: SMD on 25 March 2011, 22:47:22
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My new exhaust is too loud and is its getting really annoying now. Even my boy racer friend from Southend commented that 'its a bit loud innit'.
Will it quieten down in time?
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Will it quieten down in time?
I WOULDN'T THINK SO ................. :-/ ;) ;)
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Does anyone know the best place to get new exhausts for migs, that are very quiet? Customs s/s or eternal? Thanks
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Although not ridiculously loud, my Jetex system has been on for the last 5 or 6 yrs & hasn't quietened down any ........ but s/s exhausts are generally a bit louder than a comparable mild steel system.
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I was driving with the windows down yesterday and the noise was unbearable and mind numbing. :(
Mine is mild steel BTW, off the shelf jobbie
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I was driving with the windows down yesterday and the noise was unbearable and mind numbing. :(
Mine is mild steel BTW, off the shelf jobbie
If it's for road use and British standard stamped(?) or whatever the road designation is these days then it's not road legal or fit for purpose. Take it back, should still be under warranty anyway.
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Does anyone know the best place to get new exhausts for migs, that are very quiet? Customs s/s or eternal? Thanks
Long Life will make you a system and you tell 'em what sort of noise you want and they build it that way.
Mine is (along with the majority - so they'll have me believe) 'Mild Sport'. Not especially noisy but sounds good when you need it to!
Matthew
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what sort of money we talking for a full system in s/s ?
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been some recent discussions here :
http://www.omegaowners.com/forum/YaBB.pl?num=1299272792
I was quoted £440 +vat for an estate system
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Assume you mean "booming" noise. Seems a lot of the aftermarkets do that. One of the reasons is that the tail pipes don't extend out far enough from beyond the body and the gases exit and linger under the rear bumper.
Buy some chrome pipe extensions, cheap from Wilco and it helps quite a bit.
In fairness, each of my tail pipes has got two, one over the other and its now just got a very gentle "big V6" burble.
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My eternal one is pretty close to the VX one I took off in terms of noise and cheap :)
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Just put an eternal one on the Estate - pretty quiet :y
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Eternal on the MV6, a little bit louder than the genuine (old style) GM on the Elite, but still better than most patterns...
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what sort of money we talking for a full system in s/s ?
Mine cost me £900+ in March 2007.
Dunno what'd be now............. :-/
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Assume you mean "booming" noise. Seems a lot of the aftermarkets do that. One of the reasons is that the tail pipes don't extend out far enough from beyond the body and the gases exit and linger under the rear bumper.
Buy some chrome pipe extensions, cheap from Wilco and it helps quite a bit.
In fairness, each of my tail pipes has got two, one over the other and its now just got a very gentle "big V6" burble.
Duggs, do you know the Wilco part number?
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I went to Longlife in Carshalton on Friday and got a cats back stainless system fitted for £350.10 inc. VAT and fitting :y.
That included a cheeky 10% discount, just for asking ;).
I have to say the system does sound louder, although I went for Standard which is allegedly quieter than Mild Sport.
Then again the old exhause came off in the guys hands as the joins to the back box were crumbling and had holes so no surprise the engine note changed ;D.
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I went to Longlife in Carshalton on Friday and got a cats back stainless system fitted for £350.10 inc. VAT and fitting :y.
That included a cheeky 10% discount, just for asking ;).
Sounds a good price! Are you happy with it? Loudness?
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I went to Longlife in Carshalton on Friday and got a cats back stainless system fitted for £350.10 inc. VAT and fitting :y.
That included a cheeky 10% discount, just for asking ;).
Sounds a good price! Are you happy with it? Loudness?
Good price, yes, as stealer wanted upwards of £600 for a GM (single walled) system.
Happy, yes as the fitter gave the opinion that it would have failed the MOT, which is due in a month and I had advisory on leaking exhaust gases.
Loudness, happy I chose Standard silencer, and probably louder as people have noted that stainless systems are louder. In my case having a crumbling exhaust full of holes probably diluted the volume coming out of the back.
When my webspace is back up and running I'll post up a full report, as promised :y :y :y.
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Can't say i'm overly impressed with my Longlife exhaust, I asked them to replicate the original twin pipe throughout design as per GM but they still put a Y joint and a single pipe. I went for the quietest option but it's nowhere near the quiteness of a genuine twin walled item (oh if they were still available :'(). The most annoying noise is the sound at 70 - 80, the genuine GM item is silent at those speeds.
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Can't say i'm overly impressed with my Longlife exhaust, I asked them to replicate the original twin pipe throughout design as per GM but they still put a Y joint and a single pipe. I went for the quietest option but it's nowhere near the quiteness of a genuine twin walled item (oh if they were still available :'(). The most annoying noise is the sound at 70 - 80, the genuine GM item is silent at those speeds.
In my case they replicated the twin pipe all the way through to the back box. Then ended up re-using the tail pipes off the back box as they were slashed and rolled at the tips which they couldn't do. This part was intriguiging as it was a genuine GM exhaust that they took off, so assumed the tail pipes were factory fit.
As for noise, I seldom do motorway miles and it was the price and perceived longevity of a stainless steel system over a single walled GM system at almost twice the price that sent me to Longlife in the first place.
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If they had done mine the same as yours (and indeed how i'd asked them to do it) i'm sure I would have been a lot happier but they didn't.....
As it is, if someone had a genuine 2.6 / 3.2 double wall'd exhaust in good / excellent condition to sell, the longlife item wouldn't be fitted to my car anymore.
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If they had done mine the same as yours (and indeed how i'd asked them to do it) i'm sure I would have been a lot happier but they didn't.....
As it is, if someone had a genuine 2.6 / 3.2 double wall'd exhaust in good / excellent condition to sell, the longlife item wouldn't be fitted to my car anymore.
I think I would agree with that; I would pay for the privilege for such an exhaust, but as they're no longer available other than second hand and still rare as rocking horse poo, Longlife was my backup choice.
In retrospect I may well have preferred the quiter nature of the GM OE system, but I can't be sure due to the holes in it, even when I bought the car. Then again the Longlife system provides a meatier V6 burble.