Thread: muffler

Originally Posted by beefy

question has anyone taken out the middle mulffer in a td5?


a mate has said that its better with out it.

keith

It sure will be better , Ive yet to do it to my Td5 , It helped with spool up of the turbo on my Tdi

Ive done it to my 300Tdi i also removed the rear muffler and it sounds smick!

I'm sure the Td5 will also sound better!

I did it to mine.....


It made it noisier, and the turbo sounded very cool.



I've since put the muffler back in again.

Originally Posted by Slunnie

I did it to mine.....
I've since put the muffler back in again.

Why did you put it back in?

Because he is soft!!! And probably got pinged for being to noisy

How much more noisy was it with the middle muffler off? I don't really care as long as it doesn't drone at cruise. Any performance gains to be had or just a cool turbo noise?? The TD5 has a pretty decent stock exhaust apart from that massive front muffler.

So worth it just for the cool turbo noise

I replaced mine with a big straight through one (still with offset outlet) as I was trying to find the source of a drone and the muffler seemed to be hollow. I didn't notice any extra noise but the turbo response improved. I subsequently replaced the bellows-type flex joint (saw that it had a 50% restriction, so a bonus) with a wire one and that got rid of the drone and further improved the turbo response.