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[jameswildcooper]

right my uncle has said he will make me a custom exhaust if i want one and i fancy the exhaust coming out the side just before the rear wheels and was wondering would it be legall if its just straight through pipe coming off the manifold with no silencer on

cheers

[Sam]

right my uncle has said he will make me a custom exhaust if i want one and i fancy the exhaust coming out the side just before the rear wheels and was wondering would it be legall if its just straight through pipe coming off the manifold with no silencer on

cheers

You have to be joking?!

LOL!

[Don't Panic]

no legally you must have a functioning silencer. you could try it using a middle box and no backbox i suppose.

[jameswildcooper]

hmmm fair enaugh my mate had this on his 2.0L turbo nova and it used to sound like a rocket sounded amazing

[miniboo]

it will be absolutely rubbish performance wise. it is do-able though

[Bungle]

have you seen how much room there is between the floor plan and road ?

your going to be knocking it off every bump you go over :'(

[Ollie180]

these a post on side exhaust started couple of days ago

[Lund]

Ive seen it done properly on Land rovers before but they are high up and also keeps the water from the exhaust when offroading - thats the true purpose...

BUT: a Land rover is quite high up - to pull it off on a Mini there would have to be a lot of bending and curves causing an even LoUdEr exhaust - thats what they did on the Scooby's (curves in the manifold) to give that unique sound.

Best of luck if you go ahead with the idea

[Sam]

BUT: a Land rover is quite high up - to pull it off on a Mini there would have to be a lot of bending and curves causing an even LoUdEr exhaust - thats what they did on the Scooby's (curves in the manifold) to give that unique sound.

Imprezas and other Subarus "burble" because of unequal length manifolds, nothing to do with the amount of curves. Hence the Spec C, which has an equal length manifold doesn't have the sound..

[wobblybob]

the only why i can see doing it is by cutting up ur floor to mount the backbox higher up, if u dont have rear passengers and can weld good wont be to hard, dunno about the legality as u'll have to chop abit of the sill out,

[jameswildcooper]

i dont have rear seats so no passengers in the rear and my uncle is a metal worker so can do most stuff with metal

[Lund]

lol Yeah true:

Heres a pic:

[miniboo]

and the impreza also gets its unique noise from the flat four boxer engine of course

[Lund]

Yeah until this happens:

:'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'(

[Sam]

and the impreza also gets its unique noise from the flat four boxer engine of course

No, its because of the manifold! lol

With an equal length manifold it sounds like a normal car!