Muffler Insanity

[touchmystuff]

My 1984 944 has a modified exhaust with 2.5" piping leading to a flowmaster muffler and a cute little upturned twin tailpipe. It sounds like crap and is loud enough to wake the dead. I'm no longer 16 years old and would actually like to pass a car and still talk to my passenger.

My internet search for a muffler to replace the flowmaster doesn't give me much hope. Every vendor is advertising their boy racer harmonics rather than giving me a decibel out the tailpipe number.

Does anyone have any insight or opinions on a daily driver, won't piss off the neighbors muffler that I can weld into the place of the flowmaster? Some verbiage other than the crap copy written by the ad-men? Even the online reviews are leading me down the "loud pipes save lives" hogwash. Yes, I know...if it's too loud, I'm too old.

Thanks in advance and feel free to flame

[TheSecondChris]

Check out a cat back Dansk.

[touchmystuff]

I've seen the Dansk in my search - it would officially double the value of the car. I'll be doing the remove/weld/replace so the major expense is the hardware and I'd like to have my passenger still talking to me after the change...otherwise it defeats the purpose :-)

I appreciate the lead, but it is a last resort.

[Zuffenwerker]

Call DC Auto or another porsche "junk yard" and have them send you a used factory unit!

Daniel

[TheSecondChris]

Originally Posted by touchmystuff

I've seen the Dansk in my search - it would officially double the value of the car. I'll be doing the remove/weld/replace so the major expense is the hardware and I'd like to have my passenger still talking to me after the change...otherwise it defeats the purpose :-)

I appreciate the lead, but it is a last resort.

Sure, good luck with your search. You can't go wrong with used parts if you can find them in good shape for little money. What's your budget? I know you've said it's a last resort but I've seen the cat-back Dansk for as low as $350.

[touchmystuff]

Originally Posted by TheSecondChris

Sure, good luck with your search. You can't go wrong with used parts if you can find them in good shape for little money. What's your budget? I know you've said it's a last resort but I've seen the cat-back Dansk for as low as $350.

The entire exhaust system has been replaced in the past, so unless I go from the head to tailpipe, I'm not sure that stock will fit anywhere. I'd like to pick up a muffler for under a hundred bucks and weld it into where the current muffler is wasting space. My challenge to date is deciphering which muffler will do what I want.



Disclaimer: I'm resuscitating this car from the previous owner's long storage, so take no responsibility for its current condition or any previous modifications.

[944 Ecology]

Summit Racing sells a stainless muffler which may fit your situation... $50.

https://www.summitracing.com/parts/sum-632500

[mazdaverx7]

It may be easier to find someone parting out a 944 and buy the complete original exhaust system. Likely wouldn't cost a ton and the car will sound great. I like the sound of the car with the original exhaust system. Has a nice tone and is fairly quiet.

[OK-944]

Like Mr. Verx...I also feel that the exhaust note from the original exhaust system is just about perfect - although it very occasionally has a tendency to drone a bit...but mostly if I happen to be lugging the engine when I should be downshifting - so it serves me right!