Sorry for asking this again but I couldn't find the answer by using search. I got my SS HEs (for a 1.7/1.8 even) and am ready to order the muffler. I know I saw somewhere that there is one that sounds similar to stock. I've never heard a stock exhaust. Does it sound weak like a bug or nice and low. I don't want something loud and ricey but quiet while still cool/performance like. I can't afford a Triad. I am thinking about the Bursch quiet (I think the glass pack might be too loud) from Tweeks for $229 or a Dansk from Performance Products for $199. Opinions?

I have a sebring from pelican. $130 bucks or so. Don't know what it's gonna sound like.

a triad would'nt work on your h.e.'s. dave does'nt produce them for the 1.7/1.8. $250 seems like a lot for a bursch.

k

go triad, its only a 100 more dollars than the bursh. they sound sweet.

there is a sound file of the triad on PP some where i will try to find it, but you cant beat em for sound and flow.

I've had a Bursh on mine for several years and the low rumble is great. It still sets of car alarms in the parking structures. Check your local mechanic for competitive prices as well as auto supply stores.

I prefer the sound of the stock banana shaped muffler. The ones now are made by Danske but the originals were made by Leistritz. If you get lucky, you can find one made out of stainless steel. That is what I am going to run on mine. It has a pretty distinct sound. You would have to run the 2 liter HE's though. They wont bolt up to the 1.7 or 1.8's.

I just picked up a stock-style ANSA banana muffler for my 2.0l and I think I like the sound better than the 4 tip/2muffler ANSA it replaced. It's quieter and the rumble seems a little lower at speed. I was going to try the Sebring but I heard from someone it was loud and rusts real fast too.

I like the Monza (original) and Monza replica exhausts... haven't heard the triad or tangerine system. More than all, I love the sound of open headers. Need some sort of baffling though, otherwise no low-end power with an anemic 1.8L.

Last night, my bro and I were leaving Dave & Buster's, setting off car alarms easily (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif) Let's face it, with street driving that and how it sounds to you are all you care about (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/lol2.gif)

never heard a triad, but the tangerine on Chris's racecar sounds really sweet (it was kinda deafening though, as the car was running while still inside the garage).

Not that it's exactly available (as I've only ever seen one other 14 with it), but I haven't heard any four-cylinder exhaust that sounds better than the old Abarth muffler for the 914-4 2.0. Found one at Porsheaven years ago for $50. They thought it was a bus muffler. (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/chairfall.gif)

It sounds awesome, very low, and loud enough without going overboard. It also looks good, with two fat chrome pipes coming out of the center, spaced in a similar way as the 911 sport muffler, or about license-plate wide. Too bad nobody is replicating this today...

Anybody else running one of these?

I do wonder how it flows, though, compared to others. Abarth was very, very well regarded in its day for extracting more power out Fiats, etc. Wonder how this muffler stands up to other designs. (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/idea.gif)

pete

Seems like my choices are rather limited with the 1.8 HEs. I'm reading up on the various supertrapp setups and will be considering a custom stainless system built locally. Can supertrapps be quiet enough to run on the street with a heavy foot and still flow well? Most people seem to think not although I've seen a few threads that swear they are quieter than bursch even when running 12 discs on them. If I decide to go custom, does anyone make a good stainless muffler that is somewhat quiet but has that low rumble that we all like so well? Maybe just running stainless pipes with a non-stainless muffler could work?

triad does not make an exhaust for the 1.7/1.8 heat exchangers,as well as the 75/76 style heat exchangers.sorry.dual in/dual out 2.0 stuff...