Am I too old?

EddyPee

EddyPee

EddyPee

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So, went down to renowned Audi tuning specialists MRC a week or so back as I thought the car was running a bit low on power and probably gunked top the nines with carbon. (B7 RS4)

Good guys, did a healthcheck/inspection and my first EVER dyno. Couple of small bits to do but nothing major and surprisingly it pulled a very respectable 385bhp, 435nm, which considering its standard and does mostly short journeys is good result and only down about 25bhp on brand new.

So, the question is, a carbon clean is about £900, which is gonna give me my 25 horses back, barely noticable in my opinion, or do I look at a milltek exhaust instead.

Problem/dilemma is that im 33 now, is that a little too old for loud exhausts?
 
To be fair the 25hp could easily be gained or lost in the dyno calculations, I wouldn't even give it a second thought.

On the other hand you're not too old, no. Your neighbours will thank you in fact.

Do scorpion do a system for the audi? My E36 has one and I love the sound of it.
 
sadly, and i dont mean this in a bad way, if you have to ask, you probably are, or youre well on the path to having grown out of it
 
Depends what sort of driving you do in my opinion, If it's fairly short trips of blapping about enjoying yourself then a loud exhaust adds to the buzz but if you do any long motorway runs then they drive you Mentals.

I'm old so read into that what you want but I hardly ever put my sounds on in my motor & continually balance the throttle at the point I get my nice Burble going. :p

Exhaust is standard though so *** off Haters. :D
 
My thinking exactly, 25 horses is minimal for a 5 year old car with renowned coking issues so probably not worth the cash.

Must admit im not sure on scorpion, I know Millteks are popular and I know Tubi's are the nuts but uber expensive. There is a well viewed Tubi RS 4 vid going thru houses on you tube which is mental.

I dont do much motorway, an trip to kent now and then, mostly its just to work and back. Id like more noise but I dont really want to fall in to boy racer territory.

Suppose I could just keep the standard and look to do something with the valves so its in sport mode all the time.
 
it's criminal running a v8 without a proper exhaust >=60 is fine ;).. Lucky to have such a nice car - kinda suggests you dont really 'drive' it with passion though...
 
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it's criminal running a v8 without a proper exhaust >=60 is fine ;).. Lucky to have such a nice car - kinda suggests you dont really 'drive' it with passion though...
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I dunno, it gets thumped about when roads and circumstances allow but its a bit too easy to be well above the speed limit

To be fair the standard exhaust is very good, sport mode with valves open is very decent but I got rid of a focus ST to lose the boy racer image, im just not sure whether loud exhausts put me back in that bracket. Hence just seeking opinions.
 
I know a 68year old with a C63 Merc and some fancy (and bloody loud!) system on it, works for him, although he's probably too deaf to hear it too much! :D
 
I think mine was 386bhp after a clean, circa 20bhp better on the same dyno. Never to old but mine was 1 better so I'd spend loads to make yours 1 better ;)

I'm 45 :)
 
If your exhaust is similar to the older tt v6, I think you can pull a fuse to keep them open. Although I've heard that the exhaust valves help low end torque.
 
I don't know much about this sort of thing, but I thought if you wanted a sports exhaust without the drone, the way around this sort of problem was to go for resonated sports CATs?
 
A good exhaust system will be both similar/fairly quiet when on a motorway run at low revs, as well as being awesome/improving sound when on the POOWWWWARRRR.

The best though expensive would be an exhaust with a remote for opening/closing flaps etc.

Briefly been too MRC before, good bunch of guys. :)
 
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