Cut outs ordered

[vxr2010]

Went to a car show and thought it's too quiet for car events and want occasional more noise , ordered from us two badlanz cut outs for about 200 £ to the door , my local exhaust bloke will fit them for me and make up the t piece for them , and now start saving for the cam

[snowwolf]

Can't wait to get mine back up and working, one of my motor/gearbox drives failed so ordered two new QTP units from USA and should be here by next week, will pop it up to Neil's garage to get them fitted back on, can't wait

[mattrg]

I've got QTP's on mine... sounds superb!

[fastbikes76]

I desperately want cut outs on mine but I simply cannot see anywhere I could fit them too on the Walkenshaw Performance zorst ? There is not enough straight length of pipe anywhere with space for the cutout near the back of the car.

Any pics of Cut outs fitted would be great

[mattrg]

It's a bit low to get under mine but this is one side (Magnaflow exhaust)



They were fitted before I bought the car. If you are coming to the heritage centre Sunday service, you are more than welcome to take a look.

[neiljohnson]

fastbikes76 said:

I desperately want cut outs on mine but I simply cannot see anywhere I could fit them too on the Walkenshaw Performance zorst ? There is not enough straight length of pipe anywhere with space for the cutout near the back of the car.

Fit them into your decat pipes

Any pics of Cut outs fitted would be great

[snowwolf]

At the moment the have blank plates on, waiting for new motors for cutouts to arrive

Edited by snowwolf on Wednesday 16th July 23:38

[SturdyHSV]

Seems there are actually a lot more people with these than we hear about?

I've been tempted for ages, but lack of feedback from the UK about either Badlanz or QTP has kept my wallet closed.

Main concerns are it not closing fully, rattling, that sort of thing. Which reminds me, must e-mail monkfish!

[vxr2010]

I had one on my old ute and it was really good , the noise was great , you do loose a bit of grunt with them open plus mpg seems to suffer , main lesson I learnt was try and put it some where not to reduce ground clearance , I would be surprised if you have no where to fit them , I do accept exhaust systems can be different shapes , the cut outs I got were via eBay , there's a pair of them and wiring , for about 200£ all inclusive , there's a place in Stalbans who will custom fit them I'm expecting around 150£ or so , I have space to fit them before the back boxes

[ARAF]

We had them on the VXR8, just before the rear silencers, and they angled down just behind the rear wheels.

Ingeniously, Monkfish thought out of the box, and rather than trying to find a straight bit of exhaust, they used the curved part of the cutout to follow the standard exhaust, and when the cutout was open the gases took the straight path out.

[snowwolf]

I would still go for the QTP bit dearer but better in my opinion, they have been on my old monaro for 5 years with no problems at all, I have had problems on the VXR8 with screws coming loose, but easily fixed with high strength thread lock, also one of my motor gearbox units failed, they have been on the car for about 6 years so not to bad, replacing motor gearbox units with later updated models.

If you do decide to buy it is best to go for the in car switch unit so you can open them up as much or as little as you want, will add £100 to the bill or even better still they do a remote control unit so you don't have to run wires into the car.

[r8black]

Been toying with the idea of fitting cutouts but cant bear the thought of cutting up my exhaust system which is a work of art
And joining bits and bobs all over it

[fastbikes76]

r8black said:

Been toying with the idea of fitting cutouts but cant bear the thought of cutting up my exhaust system which is a work of art
And joining bits and bobs all over it

Same boat as me...while mine is just the standard 2.5" Walky zorst I can bring myself to butcher it in a way that makes it next and reversible.

[THUNDER STORM]

I love my cutouts

Ade

[snowwolf]

THUNDER STORM said:

I love my cutouts

Ade

+1

[vxr2010]

Well cut outs came from USA , 156 £ to my door , welding done for 200 , all sorted and on the car now, sounds a lot more v8 now , same idle noise as an uprated cam

[MatrixXXx]

any chance of some youtube clips , drive by start up etc , been thinking of doing this myself, now i have a welder

[escortcab]

Not wanting to hijack the thread. But when this was started i looked at them. Ordered them. They arrived. Ordering 100 cell cats. And they are booked in to get fitted Wed next week. So I'll do a vid of now and l8r. And post them up here when done. It will be good to compare std exhaust and then cutouts. To modded exhaust and cutouts. To modded cats, exhaust, and cutouts.

[snowwolf]

Trying with the cats removed, it's insanely loud with cutouts open and the over run backfires are such a vey loud bangs!!!!!!
With cutouts closed the exhaust much much louder I think I will have to put the walkinshaw back silencer kit back on so I can adjust from loud to not so loud, the rear silencers have alway been left on loud.
Cheers again Neil for all the work you managed to get sorted, top job matey.

Edited by snowwolf on Thursday 7th August 17:59

[neiljohnson]

Always a pleasure Snowey it's certainly got some volume now!!