My friend and fellow cooper owner who shall remain unnamed, told me after we stopped cruising that under load he thought my one-ball sounded tinny and kind of like a riced out civic... so I asked him to take it so i could listen to it. I thought it sounded great an earful of supercharger followed by deeper exhaust note. I guess my question is has anyone else every heard of the one-ball or any othe Cooper S exhausts that sound ricey? I was sure this was impossible in a car as cool as the MINI

 

the only time it every sounds ricey to me is when the engine is slowing down with my foot off the gas in 1st and 2nd. but i wouldnt even really call that ricey.

 

agreed

 

Nah, some people take the whole ricey thing to an extreme. There are a lot of people who just hate and really don't have a clue as to what they are talking about. To be honest, the one ball mod doesn't really affect the sound much anyway. It changes it, but not in a bad way. I wouldn't worry about it if I were you.

 

The one-ball does not sound ricey at all...

It sounds great when combined with a header.

 

one-ball has a great sound, the guy probably just doesnt know the meaning of ricey.

 

Exactly.

 

Mine sounds really bad, only when the exhaust is cold and has not warmed up (1-2 min of driving) and has a really nasty tinny rasp sound around 3100rpm that sounds like a straight pipe d16 civic.

After that 1 min warm up it sounds great, no rasp at all.

 

Yep. Mine is just like that. Only when stone cold.

 

haha thanks guys, I think he was just trying to justify spending $900 on an exhaust when he could have a header/oneball for $180 or so and put his money toward other mods and his car not perform any worse than a cat-back. The cat-backs do sound way cool though!!

 

... not as cool as my one-ball and RMW header.

 

haha nice Paul.


Justin

 

Sorry newb question.

Is one ball exhaust the same as OBX exhaust?

 

No.

One-ball exhaust = stock exhaust with resonator removed.

 

I've had a oneball on my car for a while now. Sounds good, but still want more.

 

Header.

 

I have a ricey mini with busted up manifold at the moment.

I think my ears are bleeding from driving it around for a few days too

 

It's down to this.
Invidia catback or one-ball + OBX header.
However, if I do the one ball, I also want to delete the post-cat silencer and replace the center pipe with a stainless steel 2.5" pipe rather than the stock 2.25". Probably keep stock muffler and tailpipes.

What do you think?

 

There's no such thing as a "post cat silencer" on the stock exhaust.

There's only pre-cat and cat (in the stock header) and the rear resonator (right side) and muffler (left side).

I doubt there's any real benefit to replacing the center pipe. But it's your money. :-)

 

Bavarian Autosport has Scorpion stainless steel performance exhaust systems on sale for less than 500 until end April. Order mine last week .



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PXmjQkCFRs8

 

Really? I was just under the car and there looks like there is a resonator/silencer where the exhaust manifold ends and catback begins.

 

I believe thats the cat you are looking at

 

I have a one-ball, and it does have a bit of a rasp when cold, but once it's warmed up a bit, it's golden. I'm hoping to add a Militek or RMW header sometime, probably at the same time that I get a new head and rebuild the supercharger, and hopefully that'll make it sound a bit deeper and "meaner".

 

Hmm. It's part of the center pipe though - not the manifold. I thought it was called a silencer. Maybe it is the cat.

 

R53 Speed. Did you buy your car new? If not, maybe that's not the stock exhaust on there ... just a thought.