I have a stock 2003 R50 and I’m quite surprised at the volume of the stock exhaust, though I’d prefer it to be a bit louder. Full on catback systems are ridiculously expensive for this car, so I’m thinking about just swapping the muffler at the end with a louder muffler than the stock one to give the car a bit sportier of a sound. What mufflers do you guys think sound pretty good on these cars? I’m also thinking about doing a resonator delete with the stock muffler as it does have a nice tone.

 

I had a Walker 23066 catback exhaust on a R50. That's a replacement for the R50 JCW exhaust and sounds a bit sportier. Here in Europe it was very cheap, around €150.

With the tip that was recommended it looked nice as well.

 

Hello,

We dont have those here in the USA with walker in that type.

I have the original JCW sound exhaust on my can thats NLA now/

https://www.ecstuning.com/Mini-2005-...t/Performance/

We have milltek, scorpion, borla, magnaflow, Remus ...etc Most of these are louder then stock but dont drone. Borla is about the loudest.


BRE exhaust for stock. https://www.ecstuning.com/b-brexhaus.../106-0242~brx/ Possible the closest in design (JCW sound kit) and sound to louder then stock, but not by much.
ASSO https://www.ecstuning.com/b-asso-par...307537083~aos/
OES https://www.ecstuning.com/b-original...307537083~exs/

 

The Scorpion cat back system is pretty nice and the most affordable system available for the R50. I hear the Milltek is amazing, but can’t afford anything near that much unfortunately