Modified Stock Exhaust

Vibe

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• Nov 1, 2014

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Hello,

I've been thinking about trying a experiment, im looking at buying a used S5 stock exhaust off ebay and taking it to my local metal fabricators then getting them to replace one of the silencers with a straight through pipe, thus hopefully making it louder but hopefully not too loud or a terrible exhaust note..

Hopefully if it turns out alright will be half the price of a milltek inc fitting
What do you think? not worth it? anyone done it before?

 

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• Nov 1, 2014

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Yeah cancel that circled box and perform surgery to the two back boxes so they are truly straight through silencers and not a baffle deflection set up.

 

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• Nov 1, 2014

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I'd check out the build thread that desert storm did, fantastic straight through conversion to the back boxes. So good that I'm going to see if he'll do mine!

I was thinking of doing the same though, buying one of fleabay so I'm not without my car.

Look under the 3.0TDI thread a few down.

Good luck.

 

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Thanks for the reply w7 abs, after looking into desert storms thread i didn't take into account any error code's coming up, adding a £500 remap onto the list to get rid of the code this modified exhaust doesn't sound so good :/

 

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• Nov 1, 2014

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Vibe said:

Thanks for the reply w7 abs, after looking into desert storms thread i didn't take into account any error code's coming up, adding a £500 remap onto the list to get rid of the code this modified exhaust doesn't sound so good :/

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Yea but his is a 3.0 TDi and he did a lot more than just modify/remove the silencers. I must admit I've been looking at doing this myself as I had a Miltek but there was too much drone but the OEM system is a bit too quiet.

 

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For a V8 the stock exhaust is way too quiet.. V8 was made to have that lovely grumble, shame they dampened it so much

 

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Yet we have 2 wheel 31cc hair dryers that make your ears bleed .

 

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• Nov 2, 2014

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Vibe said:

Thanks for the reply w7 abs, after looking into desert storms thread i didn't take into account any error code's coming up, adding a £500 remap onto the list to get rid of the code this modified exhaust doesn't sound so good :/

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My local garage has quoted me £250 for a remap and will unlock CD ripping and any other bits I want at the same time for free.

Off to scour fleabay for an exhaust now. Must stop reading these posts as my wallet can't keep up.

 

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w7 abs said:

My local garage has quoted me £250 for a remap and will unlock CD ripping and any other bits I want at the same time for free.

Off to scour fleabay for an exhaust now. Must stop reading these posts as my wallet can't keep up.

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Thats something worth thinking about, i'll get in touch with a couple remap garages, thanks

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Yet we have 2 wheel 31cc hair dryers that make your ears bleed .

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Haha so true! dont forget the 125cc with straight through pipes on which the owners think sound "well good"