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Model specific boards => Golf mk3 => Topic started by: Jack3559 on 04 July 2010, 13:50

Title: What can I do to make my TDi sound less like a tractor?
Post by: Jack3559 on 04 July 2010, 13:50

I'll do pretty much anything to the engine/exhaust.

I want it to run really quietly.

I know it'll never sound good... I just want it to be less noticeable.

Title: Re: What can I do to make my TDi sound less like a tractor?
Post by: zdebx on 04 July 2010, 13:55

A good service will probably quite it down a bit...Then you could change the exhaust to something like Jetex, which would sound a bit less like a TDi, lol

Title: Re: What can I do to make my TDi sound less like a tractor?
Post by: Jack3559 on 04 July 2010, 13:56

Would the exhaust make it quieter though?

I hate hearing gary boys in their corsas with dustbin back boxes.

Title: Re: What can I do to make my TDi sound less like a tractor?
Post by: zdebx on 04 July 2010, 15:17

Quote from: Jack3559 on 04 July 2010, 13:56

Would the exhaust make it quieter though?

I hate hearing gary boys in their corsas with dustbin back boxes.

Not sure about quite, but it won't be a tractor anymore ;)

Title: Re: What can I do to make my TDi sound less like a tractor?
Post by: Deano2711 on 04 July 2010, 15:43

Swap it for a nice petrol engine  :grin: :grin:

Title: Re: What can I do to make my TDi sound less like a tractor?
Post by: Rmachines on 04 July 2010, 18:46

Quote from: Deano2711 on 04 July 2010, 15:43

Swap it for a nice petrol engine  :grin: :grin:

+1, sorry you would do anything for a quiet engine,  and yet you have a Diesel?  Something missing here  :grin:  Just lag the engine in dynamat  :wink:

Title: Re: What can I do to make my TDi sound less like a tractor?
Post by: *tell* on 04 July 2010, 18:59

mine didnt have an undertray does now a little bit less tractor sound.
 :smiley:

Title: Re: What can I do to make my TDi sound less like a tractor?
Post by: boneybradley on 04 July 2010, 19:15

under tray and bonnet sound dead stuff is your best bet.....try ebay.de as they had performance diesels unlike us brits and they were much better spec'd than the uk's soot makers

Title: Re: What can I do to make my TDi sound less like a tractor?
Post by: Wayne on 04 July 2010, 19:24

Quote from: Rmachines on 04 July 2010, 18:46

Quote from: Deano2711 on 04 July 2010, 15:43

Swap it for a nice petrol engine  :grin: :grin:

+1, sorry you would do anything for a quiet engine,  and yet you have a Diesel?  Something missing here  :grin:  Just lag the engine in dynamat  :wink:

+2 never going to be quiet

Title: Re: What can I do to make my TDi sound less like a tractor?
Post by: Jack3559 on 04 July 2010, 23:01

I want it to sound like the a new passat TDi.... Instead of chugging it just sounds kinda nice.

Might put the Mk4 engine intended to be dumped into my Mk2 project into the estate...

If I do that - I could save the turbo from the mk3 and the intercooler and have a twin turbo TDi returning ridiculous MPG.

Hmm...

Title: Re: What can I do to make my TDi sound less like a tractor?
Post by: Rmachines on 05 July 2010, 07:49

The MK4 is common rail injection,  they are the "PD" Engines,  much faster and quieter, with variable vein turbos,  and yours will never be like a PD engine,  You could remap your TDI, that optimises the engine a bit, takes out some of the lumps and bumps, and lots of sound deadening,  if you muffled it enough you might just get it to sound and feel a bit like a PD!   sadly the reason diesels sound the way they do is partly due to the way the injection works,  and newer diesels work differently.


Or, slap a K&N On it and make it super loud...  like i did  :laugh: