Winter project: Exhaust! - 986 Forum - The Community for Porsche Boxster & Cayman Owners

Dave80GTSi · 10-13-2018, 07:05 PM

What I did:

OEM Euro 3 into 1 manifolds. I've wasted far too many hours of my life trying to make aftermarket headers fit properly in my various cars. With OEM manifolds, you know they will fit right the first time. They flow more than good enough for my needs, certainly as compared against the cat manifolds linked in my earlier thread.

Circuit Werks secondary "resonator" pipes. Note that all of the acoustical "stuffing" was quickly and amusingly blown out of them during their initial start up. If you wanted cats, then just select the C.W. cat convertor version instead.

Dansk "sausage" muffler. Very high quality, and a perfect fit. Bought used, scratches and dents as seen in the picture courtesy of the previous owner.

The combination of these 3 components sounds great, and I consider it to be my "perfect" system. Lots of that flat-6 character without any drone, and overall it saved me close to 50 pounds over stock.

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Robert986 · 10-14-2018, 01:07 AM

Your installation looks really sweet Dave!

Would love that kind of weight saving, I will however go for aftermarket headers, at least in theory it should give some scavenging effect. Also, long term I´ll be addressing also the intake, and plan to do a re-map when the whole system is done.

So, no drone on that Dansk muffler? That´s great, found this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=imC4Jab7Zv4 but the sound on this video did not do it for me..

Sounds odd that the CW resonators did´t keep together, makes me wonder about their general quality. As you say I can order mid pipes complete with 200 cels cats, but if the quality is low on resonators, what gives that the cats would be ok? Anyone tried those?