I have a 2000 Boxster Base.

Is there a low-priced exhaust option that will fit properly and not be too loud or droney compared to stock?

I'm really looking for advice here from someone who's done it. Listing different options that you've found online is not helpful. I mean I appreciate the effort, but I can and have done that myself. I'd like to hear from someone who's installed one and who can tell me how it fit, what mods if any were necessary to get it to fit, and who can also give me a good description of the sound difference in the cabin at various speeds.

Thanks in advance.

Greg

 

What are you trying to achieve? are you saying the stock is "too loud and droney"? If so I think that likely any aftermarket system will likely be louder, so you are probably best off keeping the stock system.

 

Try ‘Crios mod’, practically free

 

03 S here, acquired last July…100% stock. Removed the intake “snorkel” first, nice audible intake improvement. Bought secondary cat bypass pipes this year. My car has both O2 sensors in the main cat, so replacing that restrictive secondary with essentially a straight pipe…doesn’t impact any system in the car.

Lots of options out there, in the sub $200 range…all look identical, made in China stainless. I had the underbody structural panel removed for changing the tranny/diff fluid anyway…so install was easy. Nice increase in sound, mild actually…but compliments perfectly the increase in intake noise. Noise in the cabin is irrelevant as speed increases, because wind noise is king in a convertible.

I had planned on having Fister mod the stock exhaust, but after this inexpensive mod…I can’t justify the shipping cost both ways, plus the muffler mod itself.