Looking for a wee bit of exhaust advice.

[generally01]

Some of you may know from an earlier thread that I have bought this as my new daily driver;



Its a 97 A6 with a 2.6 V6 engine.

Its a big old thing, amazingly comfortable and smooth.

Its obviously never going to be sporty, thats not why I bought it but as it makes a nice low thrum from that V6 I am thinking it would be nice to give it some amplification so that I can enjoy the engine noise a bit (best reason for a big V engine).

Now I don't want to add the big bean tin back box as thats a bit chavvy but if I could get one with a nicer tail pipe and they are only about £40 would this, in you guys opinions be an option?

I also thought about just getting rid of the back box and fitting a straight pipe but would this be hideously noisy?

Shouldnt be too hard a job, as you can see the back box is right behind the bumper;



And to make things even easier there is a join in the exhaust just before the back axle (if it hasnt rusted on)



So what do you think?

So far my idea is to try and find a scrapped A6, rob the back box section to fabricate a new tail section onto and that leaves me the original if it all turns failure.

Cheers,
Dave.

[kee]

do it on the cheap and if it turns out curse word then no bother

[steveo3002]

is there a middle box you can chop out...often they're the biggest one and gives em a better roar

[retrowagen1234]

get rid of the middle box and put a bigger tip on the end (cut the original off and weld the bigger one butt upto the silencer otherwise it looks curse word) that way it looks like an s4 one or somthing and you also get the throaty noise the middlebox takes out....

[generally01]

I will investigate the presence of the middle box tomorrow. Cheers guys.