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« Reply #5 on: September 27, 2007, 01:31:02 pm » |
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Hi Anders Now, what are peoples experiences with these exhausts? Are they as noisy as the twin outlet ones or are they better?
I have both - one for MOT and one for street drive  My experience is that the standard has less noise - much less - than the ones from Simon - devil-exhaust. The devil exhaust has a deep grumbling that the neighbors can hear 8 houses away - the standard they can't hear ! When driving on the street *everybody*turns around to look  Btw: Beware that the exhaust from Simon is not stainless BR Henrik PS -my murena just passed MOT yesterday, so now it is time for some winter work
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« Reply #10 on: September 28, 2007, 07:07:19 pm » |
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I look to have the same exhaust as you and it is load, I can see why you may change it, i also seem to suffer from resonance, but ive only noticed it at low revs. Where did you find best to stick the pads? I also have a leak somewhere which i need to trace, if you pull away on a hill at lower revs it sounds like a beetle engine before it dies out. I guess its a leak at the manifold or exhaust, knowing my car both...
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roy4matra
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« Reply #11 on: September 28, 2007, 07:25:54 pm » |
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My dual-outlet-low-hanging exhaust is too noisy for me...
... Now, what are peoples experiences with these exhausts? Are they as noisy as the twin outlet ones or are they better?
I may sacrifice a bit of top end performance, but I'm ready to live with that - and I can always fit back the old one for a roaring track day 
- Anders
My original Murena (with Holbay cam) is just as powerful and quick as yours Anders, and is the one I measured on the rolling road, and it has a quiet single outlet exhaust; so there is no reason why you should loose performance. The main thing is both yours and mine have the 4-into-1 four branch exhaust manifold, which breathes much better than the original cast iron one. My exhaust system is a one off, made by Langford and Knight especially for me in 1985, and is superb. It looks good, is quiet except at full throttle when it sounds good, and is of the best quality s.s. and even had a twenty five year transferable guarantee, and since it is now 25 yrs old and still in excellent condition proved they were safe offering that guarantee! Unlike some (most?) after market exhausts for the Murena 2.2 they left the size of the pipes as original, which was 1.75" diameter if I remember correctly. However, the Murena has always had a distinctive exhaust note, which even my mother used to recognise when I was nearby! :-) Roy
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« Reply #12 on: September 28, 2007, 07:38:19 pm » |
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My dual-outlet-low-hanging exhaust is too noisy for me... I have to find something else. Missus and I drove 2 x 180 km last weekend in the Murena and my ears were ringing after the motorway. It's really on-cam at 3500 rpm / 130 km/h but the noise is unbearable 
My guess is that all the sound damping stuff inside the muffler is long gone. I think it's a custom built stainless exhaust, and Roy has told me it's about 15 years old. Good quality, though - no signs of cracks anywhere or corrosion. I could have it opened and restuffed, but I want to switch to the standard type of exhaust with only one exhaust pipe and the muffler sitting well up under the car instead of hanging low over the road. I don't think my boys will agree, but that's what I want 
So my plan is to buy myself a stainless single pipe exhaust as sold by Simon, Politecnic and Will: http://www.matramagic.co.uk/product.php?productid=16140&cat=253&page=2
Now, what are peoples experiences with these exhausts? Are they as noisy as the twin outlet ones or are they better?
I may sacrifice a bit of top end performance, but I'm ready to live with that - and I can always fit back the old one for a roaring track day 
Well, I was in the same situation a couple of years ago! This was my previous exhaust, a roaring Devil:  One day, when I was driving the car, I noticed that the sound was *really* sporty. The pipe had broken off just before the silencer and I had to buy another exhaust, since the Devil was rotten through and through! That explained the roaring sound I guess, there wasn't much damping material left inside. I decided to buy a stainless steel "original" exhaust at Carjoy (same stuff as Matramagic/Simon):   Quite costly, but I hope it will last a lifetime  It doesn't have that roaring sound of a Devil exhaust, but then again, the engine makes enough noise inside. And my girlfriend doesn't hate me anymore driving the car  I already had a 4-in-1 manifold btw. Cheers, Robert
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