The Borla is the quiet one?

[dswalterwi at gmail.com (Don Walter)]

My son has a SS Borla from TT with the resonator removed, still have the CAT
and it is remarkably quiet.  When we looked through the muffler it was
straight through.  I thought it would have been louder than that.

We are removing it and replacing it with the resonator to act as the
muffler, HeHe.


On 12/15/06, Peter <peter@thescirocco.com> wrote:
>
> It's mostly because you have the hidden tip, Tonee.
> I'm curious to see how much quieter the 4-Motion tailpipe will be for you.
> Going back to the drop in K&N will help a little too.
>
> Compared to a Superturbo, or Flowmaster, the Borla is quieter.
> I've had people complain that it's too quiet, usually from 8V people.
>
> It all depends on what engine you have, and the 16V makes a lot more noise
> than an 8V.
>
> The extra long TT/Borla muffler for the 16V definitely helps...
>
> If you have the stock downpipe with an intact CAT, it won't be that loud.
>
> If you have a race downpipe that eliminates the cat, it will be a lot
> louder, because the CAT helps to quiet the exhaust.
>
> Peter
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tonee Northam [mailto:pb3vr6@yahoo.com]
> Sent: Friday, December 15, 2006 12:19 AM
> To: Mark Langford; scirocco-l@scirocco.org
> Subject: Re: The Borla is the quiet one?
>
> Mark, I've put a TT ss w/ Borla on Ellen's corrado vr6 and my gti vr6 and
> it's far from quiet, now on 1.8-2.0l I'm not sure but I can't imagine a
> Borla being quiet on any engine.
>
> Tonee
>
> Mark Langford <markl@hiwaay.net> wrote:
> RoccoHeads,
>
> There was a thread a while back on mufflers, and I just wanted to verify
> that indeed the Borla from Techtonics is the quietest one money can buy
> for
> the '87 16V Scirocco? Being old and wise, I now realize that the quieter
> the car under full throttle, the less attention it draws (other than the
> minor detail of being "arrest me" Tornado Red), and my present stop-gap
> Walker "Super Turbo" is rattling like a tin can. If somebody has one for
> sale, that'd work too.
>
> Looking forward to Cincy...
>
> Thanks,
>
> Mark Langford
> '87 2.0L 16V Scirocco
> 2001 GTI
> 1999 Audi A4 Quattro
> 1974 2110cc "Porsche Killer" Karmann Ghia
> see homebuilt airplane N56ML at http://home.hiwaay.net/~langford
> email to N56ML "at" hiwaay.net
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-- 
Don Walter - Waukesha, WI
1986 8V Black Scirocco (Daily Driver)
1984 8V Audi 4000s (RIP 2/14/2006)
1986 2.0L 16V TEC 2 Black Scirocco (see progress at
http://www.cardomain.com/memberpage/708939)
1986 2L 16V Toronado Red Scirocco (Ben's Car)
1988 1.8 16V Toronado Red Scirocco (sold on 3/29/04)
1984 1.8 8V Pewter Scirocco (sold years ago)
1971 Karman Ghia (sold)
1969 Karman Ghia (sold)
1969 Beetle (sold)