I've been extremely happy with my Outback, especially after Ed at XRT tuned it. The final piece for me was getting a nice growl coming from the exhaust. Thanks to some great advice from the XRT chat group I ordered two Magnaflow mufflers and a resonator.
I was VERY pleased when the shop guy fired up my car after the install and backed up my car.
It had a smooth DEEP rich tone. It is much louder than stock and has an ever present sound. When I open up the throttle it has an awesome roar that is very addicting!
I took two short videos driving home in this video, please listen with headphones!
Very nice. It is a deep sound. Definitely not a ricer sound. Any drone coming from the hatch area since it's such a deep bass sound? That was the issue I had with the Nameless axleback. It was deep but too much bass in the cabin.
I've yet to take it on the interstate (higher speeds) to see if it has drone or not. I can tell you that while cruising it's quiet if you are easy on the gas. It has a very nice deep note to it. It has some drone but nothing annoying IMO. You can hear the exhaust but it doesn't hurt the ears, nor is it so deep that it's uncomfortable. It's still breaking in, so after a week or so the sound may change.
I will continue to give some input as I drive the car some more.
Yeah, the tech did a fantastic job getting everything lined up and fit properly. The nice thing was I got to keep the tips I already had on my stock exhaust. He did have to cut extra piping on the inlet on the new mufflers to get the custom bend to fit right. Lastly he added custom hangers so that everything would be secure.
Actually the windows were up because it was super windy yesterday. The deepness of the exhaust sound is missed, unfortunately with the video playback. It is fairly loud, however nothing matches the noise of the turn signal! :frown2:
Sounds good, very similar to my Nameless axle back with the stock resonator. The true test is cruising around 2000-2100 RPM where the drone seems to be most prevalent.
I like the sound of that! Any chance of hearing it from outside the car? I thought about the Nameless exhaust, but it's a little too "import racer" sounding when it's revving. I think this captures that flat-six growl nicely.
Absolutely. I don't have one of those fancy go-pro cams, but I might have someone record a video as I drive down the street going WOT! I will try to get on by the weekend and post it up.
The exhaust is a head turning, and will only get better in sound as the mufflers are broken in more. I remember I had my Magnaflow Magnapacks on a Mustang I owned some years ago, and the sound quality kept improving as carbon built up within the piping and mufflers.
I will definitely do some revs while the car is idling, thanks for remind me about that.
The resonator is a big restriction in the exhaust, so the reason I used the Magnaflow one was to free up more power, especially once I got it retuned by Ed. If you just wanted sound, you could just do the mufflers, but I wanted to get the most gains I could. Also Hotexhaust has Magnaflow products for 20% for this month.
The shop charged me $160, as it took them 2 hours to get the job done. So $235 plus $160 is under $400 for the parts and install! ($395 to be exact.)
Here is a warm start up and rev video as requested!
I would recommend listening to this with earphones to get a feel for the deep rich tone that this exhaust gives the H6. I couldn't rev it as far as I wanted to, since it was hitting the limiter around 4k. :grin2:
Sounded a bit like a STi when you revved it. Seems to be relatively quiet at idle which is good IMO.
Spoke to the guys at AVO yesterday and their axleback is in production so they should have them soon. May give those a try as it's straight forward bolt on.
From what I saw in your pics you can't really revert back to stock without some welding can you ?
Sounded a bit like a STi when you revved it. Seems to be relatively quiet at idle which is good IMO.
Spoke to the guys at AVO yesterday and their axleback is in production so they should have them soon. May give those a try as it's straight forward bolt on.
From what I saw in your pics you can't really revert back to stock without some welding can you ?
That's good to hear that AVO is coming out with their catback soon! I would of waited for it because I know they are going to charge at least $1000, if not more. I can't justify that price to the wife for two mufflers. Also I wanted to change my resonator because my tuner suggested that would be a good idea to free up more power.
Overall I am very happy with my setup! Yes, the system is all welded together, so there's no going back. I plan on owning this car until it dies (or myself lol).
The car keeps sounding better every day! I think the mufflers are getting broken in and I've noticed improvement in the tone, where now it has more definition in the sound as opposed to being droney or blah.
What i saw missing from these posts is Xtreme Racing Tuning strong recommendation for Magnaflow.
We been using them for year in hard core rallying here in barbados.
I love to drive my car and set off alarms. In my house, its around a 35-45hz vibration. just love it. I need to replave my resonator now. Been on for years and all though I was told its empty, its sweet
Good work and when you are ready and you want to hear how the H6 and the magnaflow really and truly sound, through in some VP MS109 and get a retuned and post the sound clip.
I have a 3.6 and of course would like to get a little more power out of it. I'm not sure what custom tuning will do in a non-turbo car. But on a turbo it's well worth $700, even without mods. Need dyno results to say re Outback.
And I'm going to be hated for saying this, but IMHO the Outback really lacks the image for a "better" sound. Just lacks that mean SUV look. But it is a matter of taste and opinion, so this is just my 2 cents.
I am sure if Cobbs had an AP, many would easily spend $650+ for what. just an Off The Shelf (OTS) tune and no improvements to the tranmission and average engine tuning. Add to that a tuner just making minor changes to the OTS (Cobbs recommends the car should be tuned) and send you the customer on the way.
Now that the system is broken in, I am really enjoying the sound even more! I love the deep tone it had while driving around at lower speeds. It had a very unique sound and the drone had gone down a lot now. The sound at WOT is intoxicatingly addictive.
Best of all I can't believe how much power I freed up doing this mod in conjunction with Ed at XRT. Now I know how restrictive the stock system is.