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Here's what I did. 5" oval midpipe. In the video first rev is valves closed, second is open. Definitely less rasp with the valves open. Need to get a better microphone besides a cell phone recording to really tell though.
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Not just you, it sounds awful.
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I need to get out of town a bit to do a drive by video properly. If the cops catch you at the speed it takes to hear a couple of gear changes at 7000rpm, aside from blowing your drivers licence, they impound the car for 28 days. Other than tracks days, it's pretty hard to enjoy the power of cars like this and avoid the cops and dashcam videos from other cars in the suburbs.
Even with 4 resonators in the midpipe and catless downpipes, it's lot louder than stock with the valves open with a deeper and smoother note. With the valves closed, it's quieter than stock at cruising speed and a little bit louder on acceleration. Not sure what the hype's about exhaust fume smell with no cats. There's no smell in the car and it's only a minor fume increase running in the shed with door closed. It's not fumy to the extent of emphasising the cats are deleted on this car. Last edited by RevNev; 10-12-2019 at 03:17 PM.. |
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10-14-2019, 08:28 AM | #56 |
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I'll be modifying my pipes this week at the resonator and back to the muffler area getting rid of that crossover pipe and re-routing the rear bank exhausts to create additional piping to equalize the pulses before they merge at a new crossover location. Will send sound clips, regardless of how it sounds.
In theory, it should give it a smoother vrooooom exhaust sound (N54-like) by balancing out the pulses on each bank. |
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Been thinking about something similar but I think the issue is before the stock h pipe. The front downpipe is the longest and it connects to the inside exhaust pipe which is also the longest. I was thinking of putting an x pipe right after the first bend and before the second bend, kind of like the OP did with hope of flipping the exhaust flow to the other side. That is my thought on this but would like to see how you go about this. |
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You would still need to lengthen the back bank pipe before they crossover, space is too limited to me, but if you can find a solution that would be awesome!
In my description, resonator is the OE H-pipe/resonator combo. There is so much limited space up front that the only option i can see is removing the resonator/h-pipe altogether and the pipes leading all the way to the valve actuators and using that space to somehow add length to the back-bank (drivers side) pipe and then fabricating a new h/x-pipe once both are adequately even. Unfortunately this will mean the crossover pipe is further rear, but in a turbocharged car, the location doesn't matter as much as an NA car. Im trying to avoid removing the secondary cats (just a personal preference) Last edited by spool twice; 10-14-2019 at 03:55 PM.. |
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Definitely, the S58 actually has them swapped. There is room and options to equalize the pipes in the downpipes if you are crafty, but it may not be practical for installation reasons.
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....on a side note. Ive been speaking with a member here and we share similar thoughts. He actually went and equalized his pipes, and sent me a video. It sounds very nice, smooth in tone, and changes pitch when revved, like the exhaust is having a happy time revving, exactly how a sporty car should sound like. I'll let him post if he feels like he needs to, but I'll be crafting something similar but not exact. Last edited by spool twice; 10-15-2019 at 07:49 PM.. |
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I've never been a business owner, but personally, I'd attribute it to laziness or unwillingness to put in the R&D costs, in general. I'd argue that the vast majority of cars that companies design exhausts for aren't presented with this challenge. Most cars that are sold have either 1 exhaust manifold/downpipe to deal with, or are longitudinally mounted V engines. So the natural thing to do would be to have an equal length exhaust for all of these engine layouts right from the get go. The S55 engine is unique in the sense that it has a twin turbo longitudinally mounted inline 6 with the turbos in parallel. I could be wrong, because I'm not too well informed on the new MB inline 6, but as far as I know, this is the only engine of its type currently on sale in a production car at the moment. BMW made a decision for unequal length downpipes, I'm sure for packaging reasons, and it gives this engine its unique sound, for better or worse. Which brings me to my point of this post. When aftermarket exhaust manufacturers are designing exhausts for a new car, I can only imagine that a high priority is the cost effectiveness, with the focus on the mufflers and resonators. Changing the actual design of the stock exhaust with methods like unequal length pipes to equalize the pulses is probably not high on this list, because it's not usually something these companies run into and "need" to fix. It's usually easier to make something louder and "deeper" as it's always marketed. For this reason, I give huge props to Active Autowerke for actually coming up with something unique. True dual exhausts always seem to market better, regardless of how they perform, and doing something counter intuitive like the AA midpipe in the pursuit of tone was an awesome development in my opinion. It's probably the best tone you're going to get from the standard exhaust configuration. As you've mentioned, the next step is to find a way to equalize the length of the pipes before a merge given the packaging constraints. Maybe it can be done, maybe not. But the first manufacturer to bring such a system to market could charge more than Akrapovic and they wouldn't be able to keep the system in stock. |
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