VS 5 litre 3 inch pipes

[VLCOMMDORE]

hey all this is the rear end of my VS 5 litre, it has a 2 1/2 inch exhaust with headers, it had a centre muffler and a rear resonator, im wanting to keep both the centre and rear mufflers but was wondering if i replace the last bit of 2 1/2 inch piping that come out of the rear resonator to tip with 3 inch pipe will this give it a little bit more noise??

[soop]

Might make it a little bit deeper, but nothing drastic.

[VLCOMMDORE]

Thanks soop, not sure if to do a complete overhall on the exhaust, its just ive heard some stock 5 litres getting around which sound quite tuff but mine is a tad quiet but at the same time i dont want an exhaust missing mufflers with no back pressure just for the sake of a loud exhaust, maybe some good quality mufflers would help with a smaller resonator at the rear, cos my resonator is a 2 in 2 out and is quite large and i think thats what is making it a tad quiet, ill get up a photo of my exhaust tonight to show you what it already has.

[VLCOMMDORE]

Righto everyone here are some photos of the exhaust set up i currently have, i would like to make her a little louder without loosing any power and having drone what do you guys think i could do to change up the exhaust to make it louder with good flow, buy the way it has pacemaker headers on it im not sure what size but they seem long to me because the cats are close to the ground and do scrape at times but the car in not that low??? thanks all

One other thing she also has a baby cam in it, not sure of specs though

[GTP 85]

That'll take some pretty drastic pipe changing to make anything sound different, hardly worth it.

If it were my car and i were in your shoes.... i'd go out and buy some 200 cell metal 'ballistic' style cats and have them put in. Did it to my v8 and boy did the sound pick up! very cheap on ebay.. look for Venom cats. cheap, yes... but never failed me, i have two in my race car.

[BottleFedVS]

If you take it to an exhaust shop they will likely remove the resonator.
it will increase the noise, won't drone IF it is the standard exhaust, (mines 2.5" all the way through & I get a drone @ about 2700rpm
after 3000 rpm the drone on mine is gone anyway.) & it will sound more like a V8.
I have Pacemaker headders on my VS.

[VLCOMMDORE]

Thanks for the replies guys, I'm thinking I change the cats for some ballistics and from the end of the middle muffler to the resonator 3 inch pipe work and from the resonator to tips also 3 inch pipe work, so the first half of the exhaust is 2 1/2 inch and the back half is 3 inch, I think this should increase the sound with out loosing out on to much power, what do you guys think??

[GTP 85]

As i said.... if you want sound when u stomp it, with out the drone... just do cats and leave the rear box as is. that rear muffler wil be what cuts the drone.

I dont think there is any point is touching the rear part of the system, it looks pretty well made. If you do the cats and its still not loud enough for you, then look into smaller ressies to replace the rear muffler

Ive messed with so many different muffler and pipe combos on both my v6 and v8

[VESSCHICK]

What if you were to leave the resonator on and take out the first muffler and as yours is a twin system put in a couple of hotogs in, So you will have the headers going into your twin cats then into your twin hotdogs then into your twin in twin out resonator then finishes at the tips, what is everyone elses opinion on this ??????????????????? would it be louder than what he already has ?

[VESSCHICK]

Anyone?? I am very intersested in what you guys think ^^^^^^^^^^^^^

[GTP 85]

It would work good. cause apperently hotdog in the middle with big ressie out back creates a great sound without drone. But hard part will be finding hotdogs that are short enough to fit in that section.

plus you run the risk of maybe going too loud...

[soop]

just pull the rear reso off it.

[VLCOMMDORE]

Thanks VESSCHICK i might acctually give that a shot, i acctually have a mate who works at an exhaust centre here in geelong and he thinks it will work well, he is going to rig up a swap set up, were i can interchange the hoddogs with the muffler i already have, so if on long trips its to loud i can just unbolt the dogs and bold up my bigger centre muffler. Now just after Opinions should i just use the off the shelf dogs that exhaust places seem to always have in stock or should i order in some xforce or luckey dogs, or are the very much the same when it comes to these style mufflers??

[VLCOMMDORE]

I was speaking with my m8 this arvo the one who works at the exhaust shop and he said another option is to keep both mufflers that i have but change all the piping to 3" would this be expensive?

[justbad4you]

should have asked your mate(from the exhaust shop) for a quote at the same time????not sure on cost myself

I was speaking with my m8 this arvo the one who works at the exhaust shop and he said another option is to keep both mufflers that i have but change all the piping to 3" would this be expensive?

[GTP 85]

I was speaking with my m8 this arvo the one who works at the exhaust shop and he said another option is to keep both mufflers that i have but change all the piping to 3" would this be expensive?

That would then make your exhaust into twin 3 inch. Huge waste of money and pointless, plus also wouldnt go very well.

[VrWagz1]

From a sound point of veiw. Replacing the 2 rear exzorst pipes with a single 3" + tip could prop the noise level up a bit, possibly a cheaper option then some of the others. But its a nice exhaust and i would try to keep it that way, no point doin things half arsed.