Scorpion exhaust users. (It's here now)

[o22ie]

BTB 6 Branch, then a full Scorpion all the way through, makes a brilliant noise when you put your foot down, but innocently goes about its business in the town.. Got all from Evolve.

[cliffybabe]

Dave go for it, Mine was louder before i had my 6 branch on now its just right

[d6dph]

Well, Thank you very much all that have advised. It looks like I will be going ahead with one in the next few weeks.

Hopefully I will get to a point where I am happy with the car, It's starting to cost me a small fortune!

[oakey]

So wrong, so council !

Pete. Stop pretending to be something you're not..... your just as council as the rest of us

[pacerpete]

There is only one place for a scorpion exhaust and thats the zone classifieds ! I will be posting shortly !

[oakey]

Nothing can be as bad as the badbuoy oval bassmaster on my new tech1. (I cant find a brand on it anywhere)

[pacerpete]

M3 owners with a council streak check out the classifieds NOW !

[bss325i]

What do the stw pipes look like?

[Simon13]

What do the stw pipes look like?

Barry you nobba you have an STW backbox!

[bss325i]

What do the stw pipes look like?

Barry you nobba you have an STW backbox!

Oh right! I thought what i had was known as the slash cut tail pipe. Like original alpina ones but a bit bigger.

By the way it will finaly be going on the car along with the sebring centre, btb and a few other bits next week. Had all this stuff since sept just dragged my heels with it all.

[Templ8e30]

I've had 2 scorpion systems now, the first was decidedly second hand and made a right racket until I repacked it.

I inherited the second one with my touring and blew the packing out of the centre box within 2 months of owning it. I repacked this one as well but found a couple of months later that the end caps of the centre box had cracked all the way round the pipe welds, shocking build quality, thin metal (think coke can on the end caps).

I now have a standard boysen centre box with a scorpion lemans back box and a BTB fannymold, nice and bassy at low revs but howls at full chat, lovely.

Cheers,

Iain T

[Karan]

Scorpions only sound good when the centre box is hollow. They fit very well and are built nicely, even if the baffles go in the centre box but thats a good thing!

yep as si says... let it go hollow... sounds unique and sexual !

miss the sound of mine

[78dude]

Again, I dont understand why people go for mainstream performance exhaust, its sounds like mainstream, go for something better I would recomend Stebro, I have it on my E32 and its sounds just crazy sexy to be honest!

[harkie]

I heard years ago about the centre box poblem with the scorpions so i put a genuine 325i centre box on and bought a scorpion half system which consists of the downpies after the ctre bit and a le mans back box. Problem i kept on getting tho was the back box hangers kept on shearing at the welds so i had to keep phoning scorpion themselves for replacements but the last time they went ( about 6 years ago ) they had revised the hangers at last and said they had solved the problem however by this point the box had hit the ground so many times it was knackered!! So Scorpion sent me a brand new box and asked what style i wanted so as the stw had just came out i asked for that and it was no problem! lifetime warranty upheld!

[scotty86d]

I have a Scorpion. Sounds good but can get too loud. Especially when parking up in the early morning!

Correction scorpion and btb 6 branch. sounds the titties at full chat but can give a bit of a headache

[rikster]

i've tried loads of different exhausts and always found myself going back to scorpion its got the best sound and is well made and i just finished fitting a lemans one today bit of a bitch to fit though when it comes with no brackets got new brackets and some longer bolts and jobs a gooden gonna let the sealer go off then give it a run

[Fushion_Julz]

Not too sure how the M20 exhausts behave, but the S14 (M3) Scorpions have a reputation for being too loud and for robbing power.

I have a Magnex SS back box on my 325 mated to an OE centre box and standard manifold with SS pipes from manifold to centre and centre to back box...sounds OK...a bit louder than standard at low engine speeds and no difference above about 4000rpm...
Doesn't appear to have any affect on the power, either...

The Magnex centre box was rubbish, though....It kept splitting (on the sheet metal, too), hence why I replaced it with an OE mild steel centre box...

[Simon13]

scorpions don't lose you power on M20's not like on S14's totally different

[d6dph]

Order is being placed tomorrow, They are doing me the STW tail pipes too.

Can't wait

[siddiqi1]

Well done

Youll love the noise, especially after its bedded in

Be ready to be surprised!

[Onz]

i have a scorpion back box and its been great! sound cool too

Diod you have the magnex manifold aswell by any chance?

[suchy]

I'm running a stainless 6-branch mated to a full Scorpion system with DTM pipes (so VERYVERY council but was fitted to the car when purchased) and have currently owned the car for 3yrs with no probs from the exhaust. Have a slight harmonic reverberation around 2800rpm and then a full on howl at 4100rpm which gets the hairs up on the back of one's neck (especially through tunnels!) but would recommend them from a reliability/build quality point of view. I hate the DTM upswept pipes though and keep threatening to have them changed to some rolled straight pipes.

[Incitatus]

Does the extra length of the DTM pipes not allow you to attack them with the angle grinder to produce STW pipes?

[Simon13]

i wanted to do this with a DTM back i had once but i decided in the end their wasn't enough length to do this to get a good slash cut angle. The pipes wouldn't of been long enough and would of looked wrong imo

Cutting them straight wouldn't look bad imo

[suchy]

cutting them straight would def look better than the upswept council trash I have at present!! Would prefer slightly narrower bore rolled pipes though welded in place instead- keep threatening to get it done!!

[Onz]

why not just cut them and weld 2 3" rolled pipes to the end?

[euan]

why not just cut them and weld 2 3" rolled pipes to the end?

great idea like your thinking !!

[78dude]

I would rather get my self an Audi 80 1.6 than a Scorpion system to my Beemer

[suchy]

I would rather get my self an Audi 80 1.6 than a Scorpion system to my Beemer

WOW you must really loathe Scorpion systems
would that be in beige sir?

[StuBeeDoo]

STW tail pipes

What are they then??
My Scropion has got rolled-out pipes and I know what DTM pipes are but I've never heard of STW.
Scropion's website only lists DTM and Le Mans.

[d6dph]

Stealthy pipes Stu.

[StuBeeDoo]

i wanted to do this with a DTM back i had once but i decided in the end their wasn't enough length to do this to get a good slash cut angle.

I considered this when I was having trouble finding one with rolled-out ends. You can get slash-cut weld-on tailpipes on eBay from Pipe Worx. see here
I've had other stuff off Pipe Worx and never had any bother with them.

[1an]

Dave did you order the centre box aswell?

STW for the win

[StuBeeDoo]

Stealthy pipes Stu.

Are they just normal pipe (ie not like the Le Mans, with packing inside) with a slash-cut then Dave?

[d6dph]

Full system Ian: Downpipes, centre section and rear box.

Stu, Basically they are single wall pipes ie no return like the le mans pipes.

I have also been informed the system is having a slight tweek over the standard offering. I'm not going to let on yet but I think it will be a very subtle change but goooooooood :winkeye: