Removing fuse 22 - Help needed!
Discussion
StringfellowHawk said:
As this is my first post please be kind to me!!
Well you're not making it easy... This has been discussed at enormous length and put to bed a very long time ago 
The bypass valves were fitted to pass drive-by noise regulations, absolutely no other reason at all. If you want your car to be quiet below 4krpm then leave it alone. If you'd like it to make a nicer noise through the rev range as it should, pull the fuse/fit a switch/replace the backbox etc. It's a personal choice.
So when someone comes on and says 'how do I do it?' they aren't looking for 'should I do it?'. They have already made their choice.
Still, at least you're literate unlike MrAmNpg
Welcome to the forum, what'dya have?
Calculator said:
What's the rough cost of having a switch fitted?
I'll let you know. I'm fed up of changing the fuse (I'm fickle, sometimes I like the quiet) so mine is getting one fitted at Stratstones tomorrow. The quote was surprisingly reasonable Should look like oem fitment too - it's going to be located just below the fuel cap release button i think
As I have had a BR switch fitted I have a Paralight remote control switch here if anyone wants it. Rather than me get my money back I will let it go to the first person who makes a donation of £50 to this worthy cause (which is related to my old business partner's brain tumour and a colleagues fundraising attempts):
http://www.relaygb.org/
http://www.relaygb.org/
MrAmNpg said:
Always amaze's me y the hell people take the fuse out- y o y o y,,,,,,,,,,,just leave things alone,,, y do companies invest lots of money in manufacturing the cars, only to have chavs say hang on a minute i know better, guess wot i'm gonna do is take it apart to make it louder, here is some advice don't bother but if you do please remove the Burberry cap and put it on the saxo then start chavving it up
Don't really know how to reply... But I'll try.Everything you post just seems to be insulting nonsense, and from one who works at the factory. But as you do work there, why would you not realise the primary purpose of the bypass valves? Perhaps you should go and ask someone who might give you an honest answer. It's to comply with a drive-by legislation which is why Astons, Ferraris, Lambos and so on all have to have these bypass valves in their exhaust systems. They contribute nothing other than to pass a drive-by noise test decided by a joyless committee somewhere. That's why people remove the bypass function - it isn't required to run the car, nor for many is it desirable.
Companies invest a lot in their cars of course, but that doesn't mean they're made as well as they can be, money no object, they are made to a very restrictive cost structure. There is always scope for improvement unless we're talking One-77, where cost was never an issue. It certainly is on a Vantage or DB9 and that's why we get an exhaust system that has to pass every drive-by noise and emissions test in every market AM sell cars in - a lot, as you will know. But the Californa emissions test is not like our MOT emissions test and the Swiss noise test is not like ours... we don't even have one at MOT!!
Perhaps do a little research before you lecture the owners of the cars and regale us with your 'txt spk' ranting and insults
yeti said:
MrAmNpg said:
Always amaze's me y the hell people take the fuse out- y o y o y,,,,,,,,,,,just leave things alone,,, y do companies invest lots of money in manufacturing the cars, only to have chavs say hang on a minute i know better, guess wot i'm gonna do is take it apart to make it louder, here is some advice don't bother but if you do please remove the Burberry cap and put it on the saxo then start chavving it up
Don't really know how to reply... But I'll try.Everything you post just seems to be insulting nonsense, and from one who works at the factory. But as you do work there, why would you not realise the primary purpose of the bypass valves? Perhaps you should go and ask someone who might give you an honest answer. It's to comply with a drive-by legislation which is why Astons, Ferraris, Lambos and so on all have to have these bypass valves in their exhaust systems. They contribute nothing other than to pass a drive-by noise test decided by a joyless committee somewhere. That's why people remove the bypass function - it isn't required to run the car, nor for many is it desirable.
Companies invest a lot in their cars of course, but that doesn't mean they're made as well as they can be, money no object, they are made to a very restrictive cost structure. There is always scope for improvement unless we're talking One-77, where cost was never an issue. It certainly is on a Vantage or DB9 and that's why we get an exhaust system that has to pass every drive-by noise and emissions test in every market AM sell cars in - a lot, as you will know. But the Californa emissions test is not like our MOT emissions test and the Swiss noise test is not like ours... we don't even have one at MOT!!
Perhaps do a little research before you lecture the owners of the cars and regale us with your 'txt spk' ranting and insults
He/She has also changed name several time from "Aston Fan" to "Mr Aston Martin" to "Kazhen" to "MrAmNpg"...
I smell a TROLL!!!
Adam2S said:
If you quickly flick back through MrAmNpg's profile and posts you will see that he/she has posted before in a similar and rather agressive manner on the subject. http://www.pistonheads.co.uk/gassing/topic.asp?h=0...
He/She has also changed name several time from "Aston Fan" to "Mr Aston Martin" to "Kazhen" to "MrAmNpg"...
I smell a TROLL!!!
Nicely done. I remember a couple of those names as posting crap too!He/She has also changed name several time from "Aston Fan" to "Mr Aston Martin" to "Kazhen" to "MrAmNpg"...
I smell a TROLL!!!
on the fuse issue, i ve just bought a quicksilver back box, as yet unfitted, i have fuse 22 pulled at the moment, when i fit the new back box do the by pass vavles come off with the old back box or would having the fuse back in again make the new rear box less loud under 4000 rpm , if that makes any sense ?
MrAmNpg said:
Unfortunatley i dooo not work there hopefully one day until then i know people who do
Ah, so when you said you 'saw Neil1300 and thought he was trouble, and you were right' you were simply lying? Or you're lying now as you know the factory do read our musings occasionally (hello factory!). Sounds like you're a 13yr old Aston fanboy who's Dad may work there. Fair enough, so be that person. Or just give up.
MrAmNpg said:
Unfortunatley i dooo not work there hopefully one day until then i know people who do
Well if you know people that work at AM then you should know enough that AM Works will fit an exhaust valve by-pass switch. So your view that we are fiddling with something that should not be fiddled with is absolute b
ks. MrAmNpg said:
Always amaze's me y the hell people take the fuse out- y o y o y,,,,,,,,,,,just leave things alone,,, y do companies invest lots of money in manufacturing the cars, only to have chavs say hang on a minute i know better, guess wot i'm gonna do is take it apart to make it louder, here is some advice don't bother but if you do please remove the Burberry cap and put it on the saxo then start chavving it up
I think others have summed up what your 'valuable' contributions have already been to this forum Me, I'm going back out for a burn in my now very noisy chavy car
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