Installed Beluga Racing Exhaust

[Dualist]

I've finally fitted the bike baffles on mine and I can honestly say like rontnak my drone is completely gone. (thanks rontnak).

I've tried all sorts to get rid of it, cross over the pipes and modded to use the original mount but nothing works so I'm happy with this result.
Exhaust has been a test piece so has been hacked about a bit, I am poor and do my own welding
Quiet in the low revs while cruising but I get the snarl when I want it too, perfect.

Here's where I put mine...

[rontnak]

I just tried another way, only used 1 baffle on passenger side wrapped with 4-stroke motorcycle fiberglass baffle wrap. Driver side no baffle at all, which will give you a great sound with absolutely no drone. If you want super quiet exhaust use the fiberglass hi temperature baffle wrap on both sides, super quiet with no drone

[RandallNeighbour]

Originally Posted by rontnak

I just tried another way, only used 1 baffle on passenger side wrapped with 4-stroke motorcycle fiberglass baffle wrap. Driver side no baffle at all, which will give you a great sound with absolutely no drone. If you want super quiet exhaust use the fiberglass hi temperature baffle wrap on both sides, super quiet with no drone

What exactly did you wrap?

[DarkStar]

I installed a complete exhaust with catless secondaries and catless headers and the beluga exhaust about 7 months ago and I won't ever remove it.

Lots of people here complaining about the drone using stock cats..... honestly what are you expecting? The drone isn't exactly caused by the muffler, the muffler just isn't containing it anymore since its more open and flowing more.

Steps I took when I did my cheap ebay exhaust. I started with headers.... Noticed an increase in air flow as the mufflers were pushing more air than the small restrictive junk that Porsche installed could muster up. Next I did the Muffler. It was nice. But that 2000 to 3000 drone was insane loud! Again, as I stated above.... Next I finished it off with 50mm (no step down in size to fit stock U Bends (why would you want such a restriction in new exhaust?)) and custom 50mm U Bends to fit the new pieces together.

Drone is almost completely gone. Sound is amazing, the way any Porsche should sound. Drone is only around 2kish at low speed in 6th, I tend to keep it in 5th gear and around 3kish and the drone dies. But even the drone now, isn't as bad as it was with just the muffler. You cannot have just the muffler and expect perfect results. The entire Porsche Boxster exhaust system is junk. I'm honestly shocked the car runs with the stock exhaust and its insane crazy restrictions.

Key things I found, 7 months later, no cracking on headers but the metal brackets that were holding the tips together did crack and fall off, which is totally fine, the small OEM Looking tips are ugly, I chose the muffler for the way the mufflers looked. I will be making my own dual tips at around 2.75" to 3" Stainless with burnt edges to replace the stock tips. And going to weld in a new bracket to hang the exhaust. As the OP Mentioned, they didn't give much here. Out of the box it sits crooked and really high. So I'm going to lower it about an inch.

Consensus... 600 dollar exhaust beats a 4000 dollar exhaust in any way you wish to compare. But then again anyone with a brain understands that 4000 dollar exhaust cost 100 bucks to create, and is only priced soo high because of the Porsche Tax.

[CraigM]

5 year update...sounded great for a year or two, then started falling apart. Now drone is very noticeable at freeway speeds, and it has an awful rattling sound from one of the cans and the welds on the mounts between the tips having broken and smacking together. Got a couple years out of it at least.