Centre Muffler Removal

[Kroozin]

its almost common knowledge now to have the hotdogs fitted on a sedan be it manual or auto.. but I know what your saying about the exhaust shop trying to tell you otherwise, mine tried to do the same thing..

Glad I didnt listen at the time!!

I had mine made up in twin 2.5"s with mandrel bends so I could have it ready for when I got the rest of my exhaust done also with a 3inch body 100cell act fitted at the time. Car had that nice crackle under decel and drone wasn't an issue.

I'm now running a full twin 2.5" mandrel bent exhaust with 2 hot dogs in the centre, a john bowe performance rear muffler, 4" dump, 5" high flow cat and the car sounds abit like a deeper version of an R35 skyline only better only thing is it drones under load (going up an incline) at 110kph with abit more onboard weight in the car.

Only seems to be a bother going up inclines when we are going away and the car is loaded to the tilt.. not enough to worry me at all.

Pros outweigh cons.

[broke]

Update: So just got back from the muffler shop, they have chucked my centre muffler. I said what about a hotdog they said they can do that or put in a 3" resonator? which he reckons is the same as a hotdog but does a better job.. can anymore comfirm or deny this point? it's going to cost me an extra $100.

[Never had any say Panda]

Hotdogs are resonators.. I thought anyways..

[broke]

ok yeah it appears I may have just misunderstood what he was talking about. the thing he showed me had a chamber inside and was baffled up like a muffler, then he also pointed to a chrome tube piece that was basically straight through bar some "mesh" type steel running down the centre.

[spinr33]

That is the hotdog chrome tube piece that was basically straight through bar some "mesh" type steel running down the centre.

Edited 20/06/12 06:08 AM by spinr33

[broke]

they have that type. but the one he showed me was like

and

ive no idea if these are essentially the same or not.

also I apologise for my rather primitive description, my knowledge of exhaust products is extremely limited as is apparent.

Edited 20/06/12 06:34 AM by broke

[spinr33]

This is just a round muffler straight through packed probably either either should do the trick , the hot dog is not packed I believe and is just a straight through pipe with perforations to bounce the exhaust flow around abit.

The round muffler will be quiter then the hot dog I dk how the sedans exhaust is but if you removed a muffler is it not 2 pipes in 2 pipes out where if you just put a muffler in further down stream would be a restriction rather then 2 hotdogs where the muffler was removed maybe someone who has done this on a sedan might comment

Edited 20/06/12 07:05 AM by spinr33

[broke]

yeah when I had a look under the car it came off the cat and split into 2 x 2 1/4 pipes then back into a single 3" so my the mod was just the single piece of pipe into the rear muffler.

[H8BMPS]

Thought I would add my two cents. Just got my centre muffler removes and replaced with a hot dog. Sounds pretty good. Will see if I can post a video of it during the next couple days. Cheers guys

[Ciaran]

Anyone in Perth have a stock centre muffler floating about?

The new T I bought seems to have had it removed, and it sounds like absoluty shyt to me and is too droney/airy sounding and loud so I'd like to put a stock one back in.