Return of a former forum A6. Project Bus.

Posted: Tue Jun 29, 2010 5:13 pm

Stupid bloody clowns who fitted that towbar Evil or Very Mad

if I ever meet em, I'll stove that swan neck towball where the sun don't shine (although, hang on. I sold the swan neck, but I'm sure I'll find something)

Don't you just hate bodges?. Complete bloody hash of a setup.
Bumper cut, wiring a complete mess, steel bars wellied into bumper mount tubes and black silicone used to seal bolt holes.

All started off fairly well, but there was no way those steel box section tubes where coming out of the chassis. Not without ripping the bumper off.
Either side of the car has a tube where a bumper bracket slides into, the bumper is then mounted to the bracket. These clowns had hammered their steel box section into the tube.
I was irate at this point, so no pics as I didn't want to end up throwing the camera at it.
Similar system to my B4 80, the mounts on the bumper slide into the tubes in the chassis, here's a pic;

Now here is a pic of how my towbar looks;

Now imagine hammering those box sections into the chassis Evil or Very Mad

So I sat back, had a smoke and rethink.
Ok, I'll pull the old lower trim off, remove the electrics and pull cabling through as far as I could and lop it off. I'd already got rid of the mess under the drivers shelf.
That left two towball mounts. Out came the trusty hacksaw and I cut em off. Ok, so I'm leaving a whopping big bar behind the bumper, only consolation is that if anyone goes into the back of me, they come off worse.
New trim bunged on and no more ugly work of the devil towbar thingy thing.

Posted: Fri Jul 02, 2010 2:42 pm

Longlife SS exhaust system made and sorted.

Opted to junk the cat, go from the downpipe back with slightly larger 60mm bore SS tubing (standard was 57mm), junk middle box and have just a rear box with twin slash cut 3.5" SS tailpipes.

Who would of thought you could get a "proper" 5cyl 10v warble on a derv burner.
Sounds bloody great, with a right bark when you want it too.
Surprisingly quiet on the motorway and a hell of a lot less intrusive than a petrol engine would be with the same setup.

Cost, £310..

I'll try and get a vid taken later and upload it to youtube.

(apologises for pic quality, my good camera was in the car, up in the air Rolling Eyes

DOH.)

Pete welding up the main section;

Almost at the end;

Joint onto the downpipe;

Middle box gone;

Rear box;

Tailpipes;

Posted: Fri Jul 02, 2010 6:27 pm

Looking pretty sweet there Jas - and I bet it sounds it too Cool

Posted: Fri Jul 02, 2010 7:26 pm

Yep,looking good.Excuse my ignorance,but would removing the middle box alter anything other than the exhaust note?

Cheers,
Jas.

Posted: Fri Jul 02, 2010 7:42 pm

Less restriction = less back pressure = a bit more ooomph.
Give the turbo a bit more room to breath Wink

I reckon I've lowered spool of the turbo a couple hundred rpm down the rev range.

Posted: Fri Jul 02, 2010 8:34 pm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5uzOCjxo9o

Posted: Sat Jul 03, 2010 8:21 am

Hold it there and don't move Laughing

That's fab, you can deffo hear the 5cyl. Top job by Longlife, these boys never seem to fail Cool

Posted: Sat Jul 03, 2010 8:30 am

Took me 10 mins to persuade her to hold the camera. Embarassed

Posted: Sun Jul 04, 2010 9:56 am

Lovely 5 pot burble as you pulled away up the hill from mine yesterday mate! Really did sound nice! Cool

Would never have thought from a coke burner! Very Happy

Posted: Fri Jul 09, 2010 11:14 am

superb

more vids please thumbright

Bandwidth Buster Joined: Aug 12, 2006 Posts: 714

ah nice one Jase hadnt seen this,sounds good.Been toying with the idea myself

Bandwidth Buster Joined: Aug 12, 2006 Posts: 714

by the way heres a mates s6,i think you should ought to fit the rear panel you have tucked away

Posted: Sat Sep 11, 2010 1:46 pm

Hmmmm, does look good.
Might dig it out of the loft.

Busy playing with my new toy though James Twisted Evil

Posted: Sat Jun 18, 2011 9:38 pm

Just sat and read thru the whole of this again tonight jas, looking good and as above more vids of the 10v sound please Laughing

Newbie Joined: Jan 14, 2011 Posts: 14 Location: London

[quote="jas11n"]Longlife SS exhaust system made and sorted.

Opted to junk the cat, go from the downpipe back with slightly larger 60mm bore SS tubing (standard was 57mm), junk middle box and have just a rear box with twin slash cut 3.5" SS tailpipes.

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I`m willing to get my self a 60mm SS pipe to but don`t know what wall thickness should I opt for?