Project Mental Wheels

[cardcrash]

A lad called Badger does his exhaust work. He has his own welding shop.

Looks good to me Charlie. That back end shot looks the nuts. If you aint happy with the table pipe have it changed.

Love the Noggy. I had a look when I was down to collect my Dad's A6 the other week.

SPY!!! Arrest him!!!

Badger! That's it! Yes I will be changing the tailpipe, there is no doubt about that. That bean can looks cheap. If it had been rolled in I may have let it go... may!

Ages ago when I was chatting to him in his reception I saw he had a black c/f twin tailpipe in a glass cabinet which I thought looked the nuts, and I think it would contrast well against the dark ragusa. If I can get that in squared oval then I might be interested... it would at least fit the bumper moulding better than a single round.

Anyway, we shall see, no decisions have been made yet...


...and yeah, the Noggy's a bit rough around the edges but as I've said it has potential and if it runs and has an MOT - it's an RS2, can't complain about that, even if it is LHD!

[macspring]

Black UrS6 style twin slash cut pipes would be my choice. No rolling.


Without a middle box to take out the boom and lower the noise, it could annoy you / blow your cover.

With the engine, the suspension and brakes, you won't need a 'loud' exhaust to let anyone know how 'good' the car is, they'll soon 'appreciate' it when looking the rear of the car getting smaller.

[macspring]

The LHD one should allow you to re-coup any investment if it is sold into Europe in the future, in a few years when even more have S cars have 'met their maker'.

Three's a charm.

[cardcrash]

Black UrS6 style twin slash cut pipes would be my choice. No rolling.


Without a middle box to take out the boom and lower the noise, it could annoy you / blow your cover.

With the engine, the suspension and brakes, you won't need a 'loud' exhaust to let anyone know how 'good' the car is, they'll soon 'appreciate' it when looking the rear of the car getting smaller.

Has to be rolled to look smart. Whether it's single or twin I've yet to decide.


As you can see it has a small middle box and a back box which I'm hoping will keep things quiet as that's what I asked for.

The LHD one should allow you to re-coup any investment if it is sold into Europe in the future, in a die years when even more have S cars have 'met their maker'.

Three's a charm.

No matter how much I sell the Noggy for it's unlikely to recoup the costs of Mental Wheels

[rxl]

i do love your project

[speedfr38ky]

awesome to see this in its final stages. have a similar exhaust made by PTR in Brackely. They did this on mine. Im with you on the twin outlet over singe can look.

[cardcrash]

I'm not going twin pipes, so may try something more along these lines:




Failing that, something a little more subtle like a simple oval, like an RS6 has, only one of them...:

[speedfr38ky]

In that case......oval would look nice.

[Error404]

IMHO oval looks nice on the RS4/RS6 because the bumper is sculpted to suit it; won't looks as nice in the RS2 orifice. Go with a twin pipe as nature intended

[cardcrash]

I'm inclined to agree, but we shall see. I think the end result will look cool, I mean look at that Honda above! If not it can always be changed...

[Trist28]

I saw this behind Llyswen garage in 2005 - I asked in the shop about it - A guy asked if I wanted to buy it - I laughed. And asked why would you do such a thing? Then got told it was actually a 1.2 Nova - I mean, really!

Oh and I took the liberty of looking underneath - they were all plumbed in too

[K Simmonds]

OH WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I totally forgot about that Trist, what a blast from the past, I recall nearly dying with laughter when you showed me the pic and recounted the anecdote.

There really is no accounting for taste!

Personally I'd want twin tail pipe's as per original and think they'd suit the car best, I reckon an oval would look okay as well if slightly squared and the size would have to be perfect to make it look right.

I can't understand why the guy who fabricated the exhaust, which is very well made, thought that tail pipe would be acceptable on such an expensive car/build.. Hell you can see the seam up the side of the pipe.

Really glad you've finally got a new damper sorted so there can be some progress.

[cardcrash]

So here's my new gear stick, as you can see it perfectly matches it's surroundings and blends seamlessly into the centre console:




Here it is from underneath:


And here is a picture of the flywheel mounted:

[Trist28]

Wow I would hardly have noticed it wasn't stock lol.....

[QUOTE=cardcrash;907448]So here's my new gear stick, as you can see it perfectly matches it's surroundings and blends seamlessly into the centre console:

[Trist28]

I'm sure you could get some sort of custom leather gaiter made - I have some old ones here if you want to take a **** one to bodge about with.

Geez I cant even say **** on this forum lol.... And it it even sussed it when I put a 1 in it to replace the 'i' Well thats 5h1t - Ha beat it