Euro 308 QV Exhaust Decision

I would put an Ansa back on the car, especially if you love the sound.

 

I have a Stebro exhaust on my '85 Euro GTS.

It's all stainless, it's shiny but not a full polished. I'm quite happy with the sound.

It looks like this:
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......the tips are in the wrong location, good reason to avoid a stebro on a euro! the sound is as important as the looks, I prefer the tips up in the cutouts so I made mine fit the valance.
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mattboyd..... find yourself a upmarket exhaust shop that knows what they are doing with st/steel get yourself a magnaflow muffler and have them hang and plumb it up for you save yourself $1500 or so ...or do what i did if your are handy with a whrech and want a challenge with the muffler buy a hand full of 2 inch s/steel bends 45/ 90 deg etc! and small lenth of pipe.... i also had laser cut some new flanges you will need to hang the muffler on the car work your way back from there.... lot of trimming bit at time of the bends to get them right PITA when i think the plumbing looked ok i would put couple of spot welds on the joints with mig when all the pluming from the headers to the muffler was complete i would take it to be tig welded.......... then back home muffler is fitted back on the car and set about doing the tips that was the hardest as i was working alone ......... the sound and the look of the new exhaust is awesome slightly louder the stock my car is 1982 2V will fab a new muffler cover am not happy with the one on there total cost of new exhaust was $600 in parts 8-10 hrs working time
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Looks great, like the tip location too.

I made my own in the garage as well with mandrel bent 45's and 90's then tigged it all together. Cost was the muffler for $175cdn and the tips for $100, the rest was free and the sound is great.

 

And Rizzo that is very nice.You just cant spend one 1/20th of the price of a 355S or TR on a 308 muff. off subject,Im a seinfeld fan and just cant relate a great Car restorer/customizer to that last name,with all due respect.

 

Matt,

You posted some fine options, as did several other FC members. To add to your selection, I recently replaced my ANSA Sport FE1940 with a Mille Miglia in "Classic Black." It has slightly larger diameter inlet and outlet pipes and sounds like the ANSA, but more aggressive at higher RPM. It's 304 stainless.

http://www.millemiglia.com.au/home.php

Barry
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Has anybody tried Flowmaster exhaust?

 

Why would you post pics of such junk?

 

Mine is a Flowmaster based system I built up myself. It's low & throaty at low RPM, ROARS (like race mufflers) at high R's.
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Matt

Most of the brands you mention have short videos posted by various 308 owners on yutube, so you can compare them there to a degree.

Here's a link to some of them-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uuo5fYPS4MI&feature=related

IMHO, best value is XHOST. Like them more than Tubi personally.

Of course there's much to be said for making your own but not everyone is set up to do that.

 

cheers guys...... looked at tubi/ansa etc!! way off the mark even millie miglia here in ozz there price st/steel $2700au bollocks to that mate..... the old muffler and all pipe work no cats wieght wise came in at 25 kilos new muffler and pipes came in at 10 kilos........... the look the sound pricless.... out with the old in with the new... ciao
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my car's not a euro but I did go the way of a few here with the custom magnaflow route. I really like how it turned out. I know that you said turn key was the most viable but if you have change of heart I think you'll be the most happy with a custom job.
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Thats a great looking system!

 

Rizzo - Which muffler did you use? The way that is plumbed, do both sides of the exhaust system mix together in the muffler or does that muffler manage to keep both sides separate as they cross over?

The dual mufflers that I've found on the MagnaFlow web site say that they are straight through, so I assume they don't mix, but obviously yours isn't straight through or it would explode!

 

Thanks, Paul. The people at Mille Miglia know fitment for the 308 series. Early GTBs have been a problem but, as you can see, the brackets on the muffler have a single hole for mounting and not the elongated slot. This muffler bolted right on easily. The slip joint and clamp for the front bank inlet pipe was to allow for more economical shipping charges from Australia. FChatter Gleggy mounted this same muffler on his fiberglass GTB three years ago (Thanks again, Gleggy!). His car is pictured below.

I've been following your restoration on the other thread. I like what you did for the Euro rear valance treatment and angling of your custom muffler tips. Looks nice, Paul!

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I have a Stebro on my 1983 308 GTB QV Euro and it looks and sounds incredible. The company is great to work with as well. I don't think I've turned on the radio since I installed it.

 

Brian yes i think you are right they mix together +cross over .... cant remember what p## it was but muffler size is 18" x 9" overall size is 24" from tip to tip

 

My dynomax muffler is straight through as well if you look through the ends but the idea is the exhaust enters at opposite ends and hits in the middle where there is a chamber then the gasses drop down and out the two other outlets. You wouldnt run it in one end and straight across to the other end, it would be loud and basically a straight-through muffler then. It works very well and mixes both banks and the outlet pressure is the same on both banks as well.

 

Thanks, I lost sleep over the exhaust, trying to get the tips where I wanted them caused a few grey hairs.

 

The sound and looks of the Stebro exhaust on my 1983 308 GTBi QV Euro is excellent. No cats, and straight out (not angled like some).

 

I thought there was a performance advantage to keeping the two banks' exhaust pulses separate. I'll have to go look for where I read that...

 

Going by the sound files on the mille miglia site its a great sounding one too!