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Offline GavGti

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Re: magnex backbox - no louder than standard
« Reply #20 on: 19 April 2008, 22:38 »
is this the section i need to order ?

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Re: magnex backbox - no louder than standard
« Reply #21 on: 19 April 2008, 23:17 »
not sure matey, be carefull with these pre made pipes as they ofern are a bad fit, as i said before mine was a custom made affair, perfect fit

Offline Petec82

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Re: magnex backbox - no louder than standard
« Reply #22 on: 20 April 2008, 08:39 »
The middle box is the main baffler (sound deadener). Putting on a sports cat will make a bigger difference to performance and sound

just a pain having to swap over for the mot, but iv done this on my jap car and i saw a 12 bhp increase on the rolling road, so deffinatly real power gains to be had removing the cat

I thought you could still pass an MOT with a sports Cat on! Thought it was just deCats that were a big no no!
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Re: magnex backbox - no louder than standard
« Reply #23 on: 20 April 2008, 12:36 »
oh yeah sorry a sports cat should be fine,i removed my cat all together from my jap car and replaced with just a decat pipe ( made as part of my exhaust custom by mongoose)

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Re: magnex backbox - no louder than standard
« Reply #24 on: 20 April 2008, 15:26 »
Was thinking of replacing the centre box on my vr, it already has a full stainless 2 box system along with decat and 6-2-1 manifold but its dead quite unless you boot it, was wanting it a little louder but worried about a lack of back pressure affecting performance so still undecided. :undecided:


wont loose no back pressure what so ever, the box is their to make it quieter at thats all daz...trust me do it, mine drives like a complete different car, feels alot faster and alot more rev happy if that makes sense, before with the box it felt like their was a restriction... as i just said mine flys now and its just the 8v at the moment, and the sound it gives off is awesome on a VR it would be imense, do it!, you cant beat the sound of a good stainless system



Just that some people say that a vr6 needs to have a certain amount of back pressure to get the best from it and that if i remove this box will loose some low down torque which i don't wanna do, maybe i might do it and find out for definate.

Watch the ivd of the recent rolling road day to get to see how it sounds.
« Last Edit: 20 April 2008, 15:32 by DazVR6 »

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Re: magnex backbox - no louder than standard
« Reply #25 on: 20 April 2008, 15:29 »
not sure matey, be carefull with these pre made pipes as they ofern are a bad fit, as i said before mine was a custom made affair, perfect fit

DONT GET A PRE MADE ONE

Its ruiend my car and now i need to get it re made custom.

Save the money and get a full custom exhaust.

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Re: magnex backbox - no louder than standard
« Reply #26 on: 20 April 2008, 15:32 »
im a true beliver in the phrase " too much flow = no go" which is something the guys at Mongoose taught me whilst having the system made up for the jap car, but iv never heard that daz but i dont own the VR so its not somehting iv researched, as far as i know its just a silencer to reduce the noise level... id remove it, i bet u anything its a hell of alot better :laugh: