MoNkEy MaGiC
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Registered: 12th Apr 03
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very disapointed from the second i started up the car 
corsa B gsi with induction kit, my mate just made me a custom straight-thru all the way from the down pipe to my scorpion backbox for £150!
he said it will be a good job  but it had weilds all over it!!!
bracket on the downpipe was loose so had a leak! which made it sound utter shite! he said he will fix the leak for me next week???
sooo much rasp when i floor it! JUST like a rally car, i wanted it to be really DEEP-RUMBLY not a high pitched rasp!
felt like crying on the way home i thought i had a bargain for £150! but looks like i just wasted it instead!
i really dont know what to do??
shall i put my old one back on??
or take it back and see how it sounds after the leak is sorted??
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broster
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what did u expect from a straight thru sysem, gunan rasp, told ya to leave the silencer in ther!
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Robin
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sort leak, then see, sure someone will buy it for more than 150 notes if you sell
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broster
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id get ur money back and stick ur old one back in!
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MoNkEy MaGiC
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quote:
Originally posted by broster
what did u expect from a straight thru sysem, gunan rasp, told ya to leave the silencer in ther!
i know!
i feel so disapointed! but it was my own fault
i cant get the money back! my mate made it in his garage, he did ONE whole peice with laods of weilds! if i had know that i wouldnt of done it!
how can i get rid of that rasp, (if possible)??
[Edited on 29-09-2004 by MoNkEy MaGiC]
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broster
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lol ermmmmm put a silencer in, id get ur old one back on mate, go to a proper place and get a replacment silencer put it in and a de-cat made up
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MoNkEy MaGiC
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yeah dude, i think il take ur advice this time 
im gonna put my old one back in 2moro and then when i can afford it get a PROFESSIONAL place to make me up a whole nice new exhaust sytem that will sound exactly how i want 
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broster
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yes, shame u lost ur money mate. bit of a pain in the arse
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ado
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i got straight tho on my 2L 16v corsa, yes its also very raspy but i got used 2it a bit.
Think it sounds awesome when ya givin it sum(bit like a bike doin 13,000rpm) but yes very nosy...
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MoNkEy MaGiC
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i thought i wudnt mind the rasp, but it really is un-bearable, maybe its just me, or maybe it is really that bad! its worst exhaust ive ever heard!
i just wanted it louder, DEEPER and RUMBLY, but all i got is a a high pitched rasp when i floor it
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Red_SXi
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I have a straight through centre section with a Sebring backbox, it does rasp when cold but when its warm its loverly and deep, i still have my CAT tho.
If i was you i'd either put your cat back in, or your centre silencer and see how it is.
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MoNkEy MaGiC
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it was made as one whole long peice!
so i cant really add the silencer or cat to it!
its been messed up once, i dont want him to mess up the cat and silencer too!
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CorsAsh
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This is the problem if you deal with "mates", you don't really have much of a comeback.
At the end of the day, you always get what you pay for too
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ed
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What did you expect, when you first posted we all told you that you wouldon't get that 'Subaru rumble' you longed for, now you learned the hard way...
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Meat-Pie-SRI
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I have a 2L with two hoooooge silencers and a side exit still raspy when you go for it, tis because of the tubular steel manifolds, all C20XE's sound a bit like this
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Scotty_B
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Get a small centre silencer fitted, that should cure most of the rasp but still leave it loud.
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AdiSRI
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Its the way corsaas r, both my straight thru exhausts are VERY raspy theres now t u can do.
If you want a straight thru live with it, if not fit a silencer, its as simple as that.
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philly willy
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Mate i have just had a full stainless powerflow exhaust system put on and its from the cat back over. some of the rasp may be down to the type of back box you have but as said before once warmed up the rasp tends to die down almost compleately
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MoNkEy MaGiC
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i just fitted my old cat-back scorpion exhaust back on 
sooo much better! nice deep and rumbly, but not that loud
the rasp was sooo bad on the straight thru! like a Moped on nitro 
i was really surprised what a difference taking out the middle silencer makes, but i guess it also depends on other things e.g. amount of weilds on pipes, backbox size and position, stainless steel, cat silencer removal etc
so if i put in a smaller silencer will that KEEP it deep like it is now but Louder?? with NO RASP/POPPING??
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broster
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yes thats what u want to do. i just fitted my cat back aswell for mot, made my exhaust so quiet now
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miles
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£150 for less than 2 metres of pipe isn't cheap.
Powerflow or somewhere would have done that with no boxes for that much, if not less.
What did he make it out of? Preformed bends or does he have a bending machine? What size bore?
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Meat-Pie-SRI
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sounds like a bodge to me, tell him to do it again, or get your money back...
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MoNkEy MaGiC
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quote:
Originally posted by miles
£150 for less than 2 metres of pipe isn't cheap.
Powerflow or somewhere would have done that with no boxes for that much, if not less.
What did he make it out of? Preformed bends or does he have a bending machine? What size bore?
he said it was stainless steel!!
no proper bends! it was little sections weilded together to get it to curve were needed!
it was a standard 2inch bore size
i thought it was a good price! which is why i didnt bother trying other places first!
[Edited on 01-10-2004 by MoNkEy MaGiC]
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AntCromb
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jesus :/ some mate if he's bodged it that bad, welding for the curves ? thats pretty unnecessary :/ seriously take it back to him and ask for your money back or get him to redo it *properly*
Do you care as much as he does ?
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miles
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Nothing wrong with using preformed bents if they are welded properly, at least they wont be pressure bent like they would have been if you had gone to powerflow.
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