01-29-2016, 07:20 PM | #155 |
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No one's removing them, we're just simply using zipties or metal wire to hold the valves open.
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03-03-2016, 05:23 PM | #157 |
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The E70 mufflers are much larger and those canisters on the outside are contained within the body. Just like on the muffler you pictured above, the valved tips aren't muffled at all, so I've seen images of where people have cut open the stock E70 mufflers and removed those canisters to make it more free flowing...all that work though, I'd rather just do a muffler delete or create my own straighter flowing system vs the two hard turns the exhaust has to make within the stock muffler.
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03-03-2016, 10:17 PM | #158 | |
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I would like to retain the flaps. Thinking of leaving the center section closed. Just opening two sides . Have you done your exhaust setup yet? Also i am busy with M5 header and turbo swap. |
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03-03-2016, 10:31 PM | #159 |
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I've thought about cutting out the 1" section and having it welded onto my tips, but it's ultimately it'd I'd likely be money wasted on my setup.
I haven't yet, I recently acquired a 97 328ci with 80k from my mom that's had the typical a-pillar leak for about two years, so a simple drying project turned into an interior gutting to get it done right. Next will come a turbo project to make it a little sleeper :-) I'm jealous!! I'm kicking myself in the butt for not buying a whole setup for $2k or at least the headers for $500. |
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06-21-2016, 11:49 AM | #161 |
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I am contemplating doing the mod suggested in the first post but can we for the love of God please have some more decent videos of it!
Sounds like so many people went ahead with it and no one except for one person is willing to share what it sounds like so it would help others like me who are contemplating it. I want to be sure that it's the route I want to go before I start cutting and chopping my exhaust. Ideally videos of the valve close (non M mode) and valve open (M mode) would be preferable but I'd take anything this point. Come on people! |
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06-21-2016, 12:02 PM | #162 |
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All that modification to the stock muffler is a waste of time when there are kits where you'll get more noise and much better looking tips. If you wanna hear before and after of the exhaust valve, that's simply two zipties away from hearing it for yourself.
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06-21-2016, 12:27 PM | #163 |
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Well most of the aftermarket exhaust systems I have come across are super expensive. Except for Megan which the consensus says isn't much different than stock and a waste of money.
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06-21-2016, 01:08 PM | #164 |
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I believe these are M5 mufflers, but there's a few companies who make them for the X5M as well. After hearing his YouTube videos, I'm following in the footsteps of M6Beast and creating one myself by adding in an x-pipe and using Vibrant resonators.
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02-01-2017, 03:17 PM | #165 |
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Great info and thread below. I'm contemplating doing the mod but still on the fence. I drive with the M button pushed every time I get in the car. I like the sound and do it for the shortening of the throttle for the performance as well. That said I would have the M button pushed all the time. All these questions are related to the MODIFICATIONS already being completed: How loud is it INSIDE the cabin when you hit the M button compared to when you don't? I know you wrote outside it much louder but how much louder is it inside. Someone wrote 3 to 4 times as loud but I wasn't sure if that meant outside or inside. Also, knowing I drive on M all the time would that be a bit much compared to the regular non M sound since everyone seems to only hit the M every once in a while? Also, my muffler guy is not sure how long this will take but said it's a LOT of work at $80 an hour. The threads show it's a 3 hour job or perhaps 4 hours. How many hours has everyone been billed out? |
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02-01-2017, 08:48 PM | #167 |
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My buddie's X5M moves the exhaust flap open or closed, depending on whether it is in M mode or not. My exhaust valve does not care and does not seem to be controlled by the M button, rather it seems to have a mind of its own...
I want to push the M button to make it open and close my exhaust valve, but it doesn't... I wonder WTF is going on? |
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I have same question about the valve control on stock exhaust, I even took it to dealer about it.
As my X5M inner valve doesn’t open when M button is pressed, SA and shop foreman told me that it doesn’t work that way. They told me that it never opens instantly when M button is pressed, it’s actually controlled by the back pressure. Is this true? Anyone here with stock X5M exhaust that valve opens instantly when M button is pressed? |
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Does the shifter need to in M/S? |
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02-02-2017, 06:02 PM | #172 | |
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Try putting it in drive before enabling M mode? You can visually check by looking into the two inner exhausts - the butterfly valve should be open. If not, maybe have give your actuators a nudge to see if they're stuck shut. Otherwise it could be a vacuum leak, however this usually presents itself in a variety of other additional symptoms. There's a schematic in this thread that shows where the other end of the rear system connects - there's a T junction around where number 7 is on the diagram, which runs to the side of your engine bay before connecting to a hard line to the rear. |
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I have a stock muffler for sale $200. Minneapolis.
Milesjoh at MSN dot com. I guess mine is a Stock X5 M Sport, sorry Last edited by Movado750; 04-17-2017 at 10:24 AM.. |
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Are you still driving arround with These Modification and still happy with it ? Gr Erwin Quote:
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