993 turbo Muffler bypass pipes???

[don777]

I was looking at the Fabspeed website and thinking that these sound great. Anybody got any experience of them? or FVD's bypass pipes?
I don't drive my car much - about 2000 miles a year - so I'm not too worried about the voloume

Any stockists of these out there?

Thanks.

[verysideways]

Hi,

I did this exact research a couple of months ago, and the Fabspeed and FVD pipes are practically identical.
The cheapest place to buy the FVD pipes is from FVD directly in Germany. Great quality product, much more reasonable cost than Fabspeed. I think it worked out to about £250 delivered.
You can order them online, the site is here:
www.fvd.de/

Personally i thought they sounded great at idle, horrible between idle and about 4k rpm, and then great above that. Personal opinion and all that.

VS

[don777]

Thanks
I've just replied to a post of yours on the same subject in April, so ignore that.
When you say horrible, and I know it's subjective, but were they too loud, resonant or just plain nasty?!
Have you removed them/sent them back?
Don

[993rsr]

Have the fabspeed muffler bypass on my 993 GT2. Superb quality, piece of cake to fit, and sound awesome. Not boomy and no too loud.

[993rsr]

Fabspeeds around £290.

[verysideways]

Windows closed, they sound okay, but windows open they sounded like the 6 exhaust Vauxhall Corsa i see running up and down near where i live. If i said "fart noises", would you know what i meant? At idle on cold start though they sound like a race boat with a V8...

Above 4k rpm they sounded great, but this is my daily driver so i spend a fair bit of time below 4k (shock horror!).

Would have bunged them on ebay, but after driving round with them for two hours and then deciding to take them off, i lost one on the motorway on the way home
The clamp that attaches the tail pipe to the cat pipe had cracked right the way round, split open and that was that.
So i had to buy a new clamp (£30) before i could even put the standard exhaust boxes back on!

VS

[verysideways]

993rsr said:

Fabspeeds around £290.

Delivered to the UK? What about if customs get you for the tax? Over £350 then. From FVD they're less than £250 delivered in europe.

JC, will have to have a listen to yours sometime (wheels?) in case they sound different, but i can't see why they would.
Do you have race cats or cat bypasses?

>> Edited by verysideways on Friday 3rd June 12:23

[993rsr]

VS - I understand you dont need to pay the import tax

[993rsr]

VS - I understand you dont need to pay the import tax

Mine are just muffler bypass, still run 200 cell sports cats to make the car a bit bearable! Wheels are waiting for your inspection/trial when suits.

JC

[993rsr]

VS - I understand you dont need to pay the import tax

Mine are just muffler bypass, still run 200 cell sports cats to make the car a bit bearable! Wheels are waiting for your inspection/trial when suits.

JC

[don777]

JC,
My car is completely standard. Would there be any difference in sound because yours has racing cats?
Also, there can't be any difference between the fabspeeds and FVD's, surely?
I'm more and more tempted...I quite like the farting noises and I love the motorboat crackle on start.
It's not a daily driver so I think it would give driving it a bigger sense of occasion too.

[993rsr]

Don Can't believe there is any difference in sound. If you send me your e-mail address, I'll send you a sound file of the car on start up, and one when warm.

As VS says, FVD is cheaper and I'm sure as good a quality.

[verysideways]

JC,

Can you send me that sound file too? Thanks.

VS

[993rsr]

Sure thing Pete.

[don777]

JC,
An email is on it's way to you.
Did you get yours from G-force or FVD direct?
Thanks.

[993rsr]

Don, mine came from Fabspeed, assume sound would be the same as FVD.

[imom]

Ive got Fabspeed's on my Gt2 combined with dodgy 100 cell cats it so load it makes your bleed. love it.

Russell

[spark_s]

Think Hayward & Scott in Essex make up by pass pipes for around £100 like the fabspeeds. Never got them in the end myself but figured they must be same (subject to the grade of steel used)?

[davemiddleton]

I have FVD's on my 993 TT and love the noise. Not too noisy inside and awesome from the outside.

[don777]

Dave,
Is your car standard apart from the FVD pipes? Where did you get them?

Don.