Red Nissan Patrol Y62 with a Raslarr hooped bull bar at a night camp, a round shield leaning on the front wheel

About Legendex

Fifty years of holding the line.

From Peter Brock’s V8s to the Cape York track: Legendex comes from Genie Performance Exhausts, the exhaust maker Brock chose, and is now one Narangba workshop that designs, builds, fits and backs its own gear.

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50+ yearsOf Genie exhausts behind the name

10 yearsRegistered exhaust warranty, off-road included

1 crewDesigns, builds, fits, tunes, services

Our dynoWhere every power figure is measured

The story

The saga in four chapters.

The name changed once. The idea that a part should outlast the trip it was bought for never has.

I · The V8 years
When things were hairy
Back when Aussie blokes wore stubbies and not much else, hairy was a compliment, and the car had to be hairier than its driver. The performance exhaust industry grew up to answer that, and Genie was one of its founding names, granting the wishes of a great many power-hungry drivers.
II · The racing years
Brock the legend
Peter Brock chose Genie for his high-performance cars through much of his racing career, and was impressed enough to become the face of the brand. Brock and Genie are both part of Australian motoring legend now.
Peter Brock, the face of Genie
III · Off the bitumen
Genie becomes Legendex
The field moved from V8 saloons to turbo-diesel 4WDs, and Genie moved with it, as Legendex. Most of the industry was scrapping over the cheap end of the market, so we built the other end: stainless, ultra heavy-duty exhausts with hangers that wrap the pipe and flanges cut from plate, not pressed from sheet. It is the largest range of its kind in Australia, and it still bolts to the factory mounting points.
IV · Today
Shield wall
Legendex is the retail arm of Viking Offroad, and it works the way a shield wall holds: every shield overlaps and nobody steps back. One crew designs the gear, builds it, fits it, tunes the engine on our own dyno and services the 4WD it goes on, and it is the same crew you talk to when you ring.
The crew · Narangba, Queensland

Ask the genie

Three wishes.

We asked Barney Lewis, the hands-on director behind Legendex, what 4WDers want from us. He had three answers.

Barney Lewis in a Legendex workshop shirt, arms folded, beside a set of exhaust headers — **Barney Lewis**Director, Genie Performance Exhausts

Performance
Proven power, and torque where you use it: a turbo that answers sooner, an overtake done safely, the van towed up the range without a struggle or a hot gauge. The best-sounding 4WD on the road helps too, and so does using less fuel to get there.
Stage packages
Peace of mind
“If performance is the sizzle, durability is the sausage.”
Power that costs nothing in reliability or the new-car warranty, on gear built for big kilometres on unsealed roads. Register a Legendex exhaust within 60 days and its five-year warranty doubles to ten, passes to the next owner and still holds off-road.
The warranty
Integrity
Honest claims, admitting a mistake and fixing it, going the extra mile for the customer, and standing behind the product long after the sale. It sounds old-fashioned. It is also why people come back.
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Who we build for

Three kinds of 4WDer. One standard.

Stories from the track

A white single-cab work ute with a steel tray and bull bar on a corrugated red-dirt station road

The outback worker

Down-to-earth, practical and not moved by slick words. The ute does corrugations every day, so the exhaust has to take the punishment, and if something does break it has to be put right without an argument.

Heavy-duty exhausts

A white 4WD wagon towing an off-road caravan along a red-dirt outback road

The grey nomad

Has done the kilometres and knows what lasts. Wants more towing power on the climbs, better economy over the long legs, and a warranty that outlasts the lap and lifts the resale after it.

Stage 2 Towing