tanker

With all the talk of exhaust I am more confused than ever. I was looking at the TRD exhaust and now I have found this Borla section that may do what I want at a less cost to my wallet.

I do not care about loud just performance. What are the thoughts of the group on this?
http://www.borla.com/media/prod_imag.../11756_med.jpg

It states a 9db increase in sound over stock, how loud would it be actually?

Any help would be great.

andrewdustin

i know this is for the 2nd gen. xb but i am runnning the borla on my gen 1 and i love it. i think it gives the most as far as overall performance and sound quality. it will not make your car sound like a rice rocket but more like a performance car.

the performance is an increase and both HP and Torque. miind you mine is only a 1.5L engine so a little goes a long way.

I would say that if it is anything like the exhaust they make for the gen.1 go for it.

coryjames

i woudl go strup i have the trd and its so so so quiet the borla sounds like crap on the new b there is no muffler only a pipe with a tip kinda retarded

chadfo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_A4X5MAw1LU

SiXX

While I love BORLA as a company, there's no way I'd give a company $250+ for pipes & tips. There's no muffler on that setup.

The biggest impedance on our car's sound & performance is the massive resonator w/ a passive catalytic converter in it. Remove that and replace it with a more traditional resonator, or a glasspack, and you'll get a good sound.

I have the TRD axleback & removed the forward resonator... put a 15" glasspack in its place. No droning, no crazy resonance, just a strong & smooth sound. It has a medium sound level, so if you like super mellow exhausts just put a larger glasspack on (i.e. 18" - 21").

Just my .02

coryjames

six took the approach i did lets get a sound clip of that sixx and did you put back in a cat? what brand resonator did you use and did you run all the way to the trd axle back?

UNOHxB

what size glasspack did you use? 2" dia or 2.25 dia?

coryjames

2.5 is what diameter it is comming into the resonator

SiXX

I did 2.5" in & out of the glasspack (not a resonator)... with 2.5" piping back to the TRD axleback (which is also 2.5"). The glasspack is 15" long. And no, I did NOT put back in a cat. Where I live, they don't do emissions control... only ODBII.

I don't have a sound clip yet (i've been sick as hell this past week... haven't seen outside in about 5 days, lol). I will soon.