What muffler with an A1 sidewinder?

Anyone with this exhaust - What muffler are you using with your sidewinder? Coupe does not sound as good as my 1600 with whatever Carey used on his base exhaust system.

i bought a magnaflow polished stainless steel 2.5" in and out on the same end. There are very little options if you want to run a sidewinder without doing the two mufflers and 20 feet of pipe around your motor.

IIRC - aircooled technology did extensive testing and found the 2.5" magaflow outperformed the 3" by quite a bit.

MagnaFlow on my A-1 Sidewinder. Nice throaty sound on accelleration and without the obnoxious drone during highway cruising.

Same here. Love it.

get the correct magnaflow from whoever you get the A1 from. its a complete package. mine is center of bumper exhaust but they may have other exit points.

Magnaflow.
Mine was a little too throaty for my right seater so I added a resonator.

MagnaFlow with my A-1. A little loud, but I prefer the SUVs, trucks and vans in the adjacent lane to hear me. Also, my wife actually prefers the throaty sound. She says why have a quiet sports car?

Tom - I just posted my thoughts of the Sidewinder Exhaust and the Magnflow muffler on another thread. Sounds throaty good, but not too loud. Keep in mind, I am running a 2180 with dual 44 Webers. Don't know what the sound would be like on a smaller engine, but probably would not be that different. I think Jim is running the 1915 and his sounds great. Matter of fact, his system is what sold me. Wait, you said you had the JPS big engine. I am not sure what Gerd is running for exhaust but his car sounds awesome with that same engine.

Tom your muffler is a Magnaflow with 2.5 in and 2.5 out.
If you want to suck all the power away go to whatever you have on your Beck 1600

Look who's in the house...........

i doubt he left the house

Tom,

You might want to try Tiger at A1 (714) 836-7201 I know he used to offer several different mufflers, and I know that Magnaflow makes a race series muffler that is straight through, although I don't know if they have that muffler with the inlet and outlet on the same side.

Obviously the stock exhaust we use on a 1600 isn't adequate for a larger motor, but it isn't that hard to get a different sound if that's all you desire...

Carey,
My system came with same-side in-out. It's a Magnaflow

i just picked up more stuff from tiger. I have to say - i buy a lot of stuff online and deal lwith international vendors all the time. He was one of the slowest. :( It's been almost a month and a half with no communication.

to be fair - he said (when i emailed him to see why it was taking so long) that he was swamped from the VW classic frantic people.

Bet prices though - buying directly from him.

Yeah, that's the standard muffler, but a few years ago there were several different options. I looked on aircooled.net website (they sell some A1 stuff) and those options have vanished, which is why I suggested calling Tiger directly.

Magnaflow! Just awsome.

love my A1 but i felt the exhaust tip was too short. the bumper which is white would get black oily sooty. i added an exhaust tip that extended it out 5" more and no more soot.

I ordered Dansk High Performance Heater Boxes (Ceramic Coated) from Tiger when I got my new A-1 Headers. Tiger is modest, and he made me believe that they will look great (which they do) and only give out a moderate amount of heat(which they don't). Today I took an early evening cruise and the sun went down on the way home. I pulled the heater switch and opened my lower vents for the first time; I was totally impressed with the heat and the strength of which it blows. I was expecting much less and actually got more heat than the stock set-up.



Marty G.

Marty...how much was the exhaust setup?
Thanks

Tony,

Call Tiger direct. Expect to pay $700.00 to $900.00 for the entire setup(headers, heaters, muffler, & extensions).


Marty G.

Thanks Marty!