MOTs and exhausts?

Went to an exhaust shop local today and managed to get an appointment to have it sorted on Saturday.

I told them it was a bit loud, revved it in stationary to show them what I meant and it set off 4 car alarms from cars parked around mine :cry:

So I think they got the picture?

Anyway they are re-aligning my tips for me by "heating up the pipe and bending it" which doesn't sound great... but are also welding my resonator into my middle section for me which should make it civil :)

Going to drive round Plymouth a bit on Friday night and amuse the local boy racers.

I feel like I am 17 again :D
 
86JR said:
They only offer resonated.

AFAIK their package for my car also includes downpipe and sport cat which is why it is £1070 + fitting. But then I need a remap at £500 from R-Tec otherwise it will trigger CEL so that is £1500+ all in one go. I just wanted to do a bit at a time, I have a lot of expenses for example I am sure my SSD will fail soon so there is £300.
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Awesome have a Milltek cat back resonated or non resonated for your car listed ?

http://www.awesomegti.com/car/audi/a38p/milltek-exhaust-for-audi-a3-1-8-tsi-2wd
 
That is a TSI. Mine is the earlier TFSI. EA888 engine and the TSI has the EA888mk3 engine which has, unfortunatly, a completely different exhaust layout. So if I bought it I would have to have custom piping to get it to match up to my downpipe. And since custom shops seem to think that means angle grinding a pipe off and then welding the new one to the old one even though I specifically asked for them to make flanges so I could unbolt it if I needed to: Why go and buy an off the shelf kit to only have to pay another £300 for a custom job to fit it?

Milltek don't seem to make one for my car at all.
 
Ok, all sorted now.

So now I have precat - CAT - centre silencer / resonator - straight pipe - tips.

And it sounds great. Silent when bumbling around in D, sporty but not over the top when in Manual mode with the paddles. Popping and banging on upshifts and downshifts in M or S mode. Completely silent in N (great for freewheeling down my hill at 2am in the morning on the way back from a night out without annoying my neighbours).

So for anyone else considering;

Removing resonator alone = a bit of nice drone on boost, vvvvv slightly louder at all other times. Not really worth it IMO and probably sounds like a resonated Milltek.

Removing resonator and backbox = TOO LOUD. OTT. Worried about Police pulling you, sounds epic in tunnels, gives you headache and temporary tinnitus on any long journey.

Removing backbox only - sounds good, a mellow slight drone, probably like an unresonated Milltek. Costs around £150 and your choice of exhaust tip(s). Also you get stainless tips as apposed to standard mild steel / rust magnet ones. A bit of a jekyll and Hide exhaust if you have S-Tronic as it shifts before its resonant frequency (around 2.5krpm).

Next: Pre-cat delete + Apr carbon airbox. Remap, resonated downpipe with high flow cat and uprated DV next year.
 
miniyazz said:
You drive along in N? :confused:
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Only down my hill late at night with respect to my sleeping neighbours.

Vita said:
TBL, do your exhausts tips sit properly now?
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They are aligned properly but they still come out at an angle. They need re-welding for this, looking at the welds earlier (as i have no idea how welds work) I might need to buy another set of the same tips and have them welded on to the pipe. Not really important at the moment.
My front left alloy is curbed thanks to the previous owner too so I will probably get both done at the same time.
 
SO THAT DID NOT WORK.

Drove to get fuel today (to find everywhere shut, even the un-manned ones) and its raining so had all the windows up... from 1krpm to 2krpm which is where the DSG shifts between on normal driving there is this stupid DRONE :( Put a window down - it goes. Change up a gear - it goes. Do 70mph - it does 70 at 2krpm and therefore no drone.

What can I do to fix this? Would adding a random resonator do it or do i need to calculate it properly somehow? So far all this has cost me £290...

I read a thread where a guy had the same issue in a different car (not an audi) and he put his spare wheel back in and bye bye drone - my spare wheel is already in the boot. Could I put something in the boot to act as sound deadening?
 
You could try dynamatting the boot floor?

Not saying it will work though.....

Failing that bite the bullet and get a BCS powervalve system :D
 
Really you need to stop faffing about and find someone who actaully knows what they are doing with custom exhausts, and get them to sort it out, or buy one properly designed for the car where someone has already worked out what sounds okay and what doesn't.

Someone with experience who is a skilled exhaust fabricator would get something built up for you that sounds the part and fits right. The folk you seem to have let lose on the thing and given money too thus far have done a right shoddy job though - why did you accept and pay for the work with the tilted and uneven tail pipes? I'm guessing you told them you wanted it to look standard(ish) with a subtle sound, instead you got nothing close.

Making a car sound loud is easy, making a car sound louder and better throughout the whole rev range without causing awful resonances everywhere is not.
 
I can't believe that there isn't a proper exhaust out there that you can buy that will give you the sound you want. Supersprint? Piper? Jetex? dozens of other brands that I can't remember?

At the moment it sounds like any of the A3 "muffler delete" videos out there on you tube... like a boat. If I heard that I would honestly think that the exhaust had simply snapped off the back box and you hadn't sorted it yet.
 
86JR said:
That is a TSI. Mine is the earlier TFSI. EA888 engine and the TSI has the EA888mk3 engine which has, unfortunatly, a completely different exhaust layout. So if I bought it I would have to have custom piping to get it to match up to my downpipe. And since custom shops seem to think that means angle grinding a pipe off and then welding the new one to the old one even though I specifically asked for them to make flanges so I could unbolt it if I needed to: Why go and buy an off the shelf kit to only have to pay another £300 for a custom job to fit it?

Milltek don't seem to make one for my car at all.
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I would have thought the 2L TFSI cat back exhaust would fit then ?
 
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