Xs Exhaust

[Lan 24 1 Cars]

ive been searching on the forum and found a few threads about exhausts and wanted to confirm, could i swop out the centre box on my xs for a pipe from a 1.1 engine??

 

thanks

[AdamP 0]

ive been searching on the forum and found a few threads about exhausts and wanted to confirm, could i swop out the centre box on my xs for a pipe from a 1.1 engine??

 

thanks

 

Neither my Roland Garros or the XS I broke had centre boxes, however the XS had a bigger back box on it so it wasn't any louder than standard! Weird ehh.

[j_turnell 137 3 Cars]

Yes you can, i did this on my old XS back in the day, sounded good with a Px filter!

[one-lady-owner 1]

Yes you can, I did it to mine as the straight through centre section was £12 and a new centre box was £60!! I was told I would lose some mid-range torque, something to do with the lower back pressure, definitely adds a bit of a burble to the exhaust note! I didn't really notice any loss of torque personally!

 

 

Edit: spelling!

Edited April 23, 2009 by one-lady-owner

[johnnyboy666 195 1 Cars]

ive just swapped my 1.1 pipe for the pipe with a silencer and it feels much more responsive and i dont go deaf on the motorway it doesnt sound as fun tho

[Chuckyd 0]

ye you should be fine i did the same on my a few weeks ago

[Joshy 0]

Sorry to thread Jack slightly but...

 

As far as I can tell, but XS has a standard system hooked up to a 4 - 2 - 1 manifold which does the job nicely, but the barry in me would like it to sound a bit more raspy when the needle climbs to the higher reaches of the Tacho. I don't want to lose any power, and likewise, I don't want something that is stupidly loud when pottering around town (I'd rather not draw attention to myself!).

 

Can anyone suggest something, or should I stay standard?

[snillet 1]

As far as I can tell, but XS has a standard system hooked up to a 4 - 2 - 1 manifold

 

Does it ?

[one-lady-owner 1]

The standard XS doesn't have a 4-2-1........ it has pretty much the same manifold I've seen on every TU, connected to a (fairly big) downpipe.

[welshpug 1,661]

they DO have something along those lines, just not a tubular steel effect, its along the same lines as the GTI's XU cast iron 4 -2 manifold and 2 part downpipe with the splitter, more commonly on the TU a separate twin pipe.

Edited April 28, 2009 by welshpug

[AdamP 0]

they DO have something along those lines, just not a tubular steel effect, its along the same lines as the GTI's XU cast iron 4 -2 manifold and 2 part downpipe with the splitter, more commonly on the TU a separate twin pipe.

 

All the TU3S engines I've seen have had an ordinary cast manifold with a single down pipe

[welshpug 1,661]

Sure I've seen it on a 205, I don't know which the TU3S is though.

[AdamP 0]

Sure I've seen it on a 205, I don't know which the TU3S is though.

 

XS engine I'm pretty sure all the TU3 manifolds are the same, i've got 205 XS, AX GT and 106 XSI ones in my garage and they're all identical.

[Joshy 0]

Sorry, I meant my car has a aftermarket 4 - 2 - 1 jobbie. Silly grammar/typo

Edited April 28, 2009 by Joshy

[BERTMAN 40 1 Cars]

apparently using the 1.1 pipe, makes your car slightly less responsive and looses you a bit of power... sound louder though, depends if you care about power figures or not?

[snillet 1]

they DO have something along those lines, just not a tubular steel effect, its along the same lines as the GTI's XU cast iron 4 -2 manifold and 2 part downpipe with the splitter, more commonly on the TU a separate twin pipe.

 

I can partly agree with you there, both these and the XU has got a pretty well designed manifold that separates cylinders 1+4 from 2+3 inside the manifold, which is good. I´ve even looked into prolonging this "split-wall" down into the downpipe to create somewhat of a 4-2-1 design on a budget, but i haven´t concluded if that is worth the try yet