Exhaust Upgrade?
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Been covered quite a lot. Try using the search function. Had it done to mine and it's fantastic, if a little loud (the GF can hear me coming home 5 mins before I arrive). I posted a video a while ago called 'smaug.avi'. It's on here somewhere. Use some decent headphones or have a sub-woofer plugged in when you play it...
Passed the MOT with no problems. There's no noise test component to it, so it's not an issue.
Rob
Passed the MOT with no problems. There's no noise test component to it, so it's not an issue.
Rob
Do it, the noise is worth it unless you plan to do lots of trackdays, in which case get the sports exhaust anyway and a couple of those bolt on silencers that go on the end of the pipes (from somewhere like ACT i think).
My g/f can hear me coming from about 3/4 of a mile away too - says she doesn't often hear a V8 but when she does she knows if its mine or not!
VS
My g/f can hear me coming from about 3/4 of a mile away too - says she doesn't often hear a V8 but when she does she knows if its mine or not!
VS
This was one of the first things I considered doing when I bought my Griff 500 about 15 months ago and after dithering for a while thought I'd just go ahead and get it done. Took the car to Fernhursts who removed all the stuff from the silencer and put straight pipes through instead. Or at least that's what i think they did, I could be wrong?
Anyway I have to say that i don't regret it at all and the sound is fantastic! Made me laugh reading comments about people hearing you coming from some distance away, my missus says exactly the same! In fact I've even set off car alarms with it!
If you want to hear what it sounds like as well this is a link to a video of Vmax IV at Bruntingthorpe this year which amongst others, has a couple of clips of me in the Griff giving it some away from the line!
www.tvrbliss.co.uk/wmv/bruntingthorpe--march-2004.wmv
Cheers - Chris
Anyway I have to say that i don't regret it at all and the sound is fantastic! Made me laugh reading comments about people hearing you coming from some distance away, my missus says exactly the same! In fact I've even set off car alarms with it!
If you want to hear what it sounds like as well this is a link to a video of Vmax IV at Bruntingthorpe this year which amongst others, has a couple of clips of me in the Griff giving it some away from the line!
www.tvrbliss.co.uk/wmv/bruntingthorpe--march-2004.wmv
Cheers - Chris
jwt63 said:
Hi Pete,
Will you be at Powderham? Would like to know what you have had done.
Yes I will be there on the Sunday. Nothing much done to the car Just gas flow heads, replaced the cams, Mark Adams chip, Avo shocks, drilled and grooves disc's all round. And a DAB radio fitted (Not that i can hear it) 
Most TVR Garages should be able to do this. As I said fernhursts did mine as I live in the south and the likes of Dave Batty & Austec all do it as well. A relatively simple procedure if you know what you're doing and I'm sure there's lots of info on here as to exactly how it's done.
Cheers - Chris
Cheers - Chris
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