Hi everyone, I have a 1999 awd s70 with the light pressure turbo and I'm looking to improve the sound and flow of my exhaust. As i'm sure you guys already know, the stock awd exhaust system has the tip on the right side of the bumper instead of the left, so Volvo put a cap on the left side where the tip is normally found. This got me thinking about dual exhaust tips. My question is how I should go about this. Should I go to a shop and see if they can fashion a custom cat back system with bigger diameter pipes? Roughly how much do you think they would charge? And please forgive me if I start some trouble here by asking whether to go with Flowmaster or Magnaflow mufflers. I also found that Eurosport has a kit with just dual mufflers. Has anyone done something similar to this? Any sort of input would be greatly appreciated! I already have the ipd short ram intake and the Snabb fresh air tube. Thank you very much,

Pete

 

Unless you increase the diameter of the entire exhaust system, you will gain very little. Dual exhaust will not improve performance much (if at all) on V70s, but some people like the look of it.

It really depends how loud you want the exhaust. Start with no mufflers in the back. I recently fabricated a 3 inch exhaust from just ahead of the catalytic converter. It has a 3 inch muffler (don't remember the manufacturer) and sounds good. I didn't want it too loud.

 

Thanks for replying. I guess i've just gotten board of the stock sound and want a little more excitement when stepping on it. I'll see what type of mufflers my local shop has. In your honest opinion, because I know each brand name muffler has a different sound on our 5cyl engines, do you like brands manufactured for lower tones (like magnaflow) or "straight pipe" tones (like flowmaster) for our cars? Thanks for all of you input.

 

I like straight pipe tones, but I have others that drive the cars. So I included the muffler.

I'll do something different on the next turbo car.

 

yeahh thats probably a smart idea. thanks for your help.