help need on exhaust noise??
11 January 2009, 05:23 PM
#35
Scooby Regular
iTrader: (4)
Join Date: Feb 2002
Location: Cambridge
Posts: 2,611
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
I got moaned at by my neighbour when I had the Nur Spec R on the car, she moaned that it was far to loud and that it scared her kids.... I mean the kids were 7 and 9, like they don't know what a loud car is...... Bloody wimps!!!!
Anyhow, just to keep people happy and to stop my car getting trashed when I was in bed I opted for the cooling the car down a few miles outside of my estate and then bimble hime off boost, shove it on the drive and turn her off.
Effectively took the same ammount of time with no purchasing required and kept the Old moaners at bay........ Alternativly you could tell the moaning old bag to turn her hearing aid down or turn her TV up I'm suer both have volume levels!!!
There is a maximum sound limit (I got threatend by the police once to have it tested on the side of the road) so jsut ask them to check it when you next have an MOT or summit
Anyhow, just to keep people happy and to stop my car getting trashed when I was in bed I opted for the cooling the car down a few miles outside of my estate and then bimble hime off boost, shove it on the drive and turn her off.
Effectively took the same ammount of time with no purchasing required and kept the Old moaners at bay........ Alternativly you could tell the moaning old bag to turn her hearing aid down or turn her TV up I'm suer both have volume levels!!!
There is a maximum sound limit (I got threatend by the police once to have it tested on the side of the road) so jsut ask them to check it when you next have an MOT or summit
12 January 2009, 09:24 PM
#37
Scooby Regular
iTrader: (40)
Join Date: Aug 2008
Location: Suffolk
Posts: 2,163
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
12 January 2009, 09:38 PM
#41
Scooby Regular
Thread Starter
Join Date: Dec 2008
Posts: 144
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
will do cheers. I appreciate people saying keep neighbour happy, fi tthe bung, but really why should i, just cos she doesnt like it ?? if the car is totally as it should be, its no louder than a motorbike etc. but cos its louder then her KA that makes it too loud. i a m starting to think **** her! :P
12 January 2009, 09:47 PM
#42
Scooby Regular
iTrader: (40)
Join Date: Aug 2008
Location: Suffolk
Posts: 2,163
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
will do cheers. I appreciate people saying keep neighbour happy, fi tthe bung, but really why should i, just cos she doesnt like it ?? if the car is totally as it should be, its no louder than a motorbike etc. but cos its louder then her KA that makes it too loud. i a m starting to think **** her! :P
12 January 2009, 09:48 PM
#43
Scooby Regular
Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: Enginetuner.co.uk Plymouth Dyno Dynamics RR Engine machining and building EcuTek SimTek mapping
Posts: 3,662
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
I rang a well known exhaust supplier today to talk about these issues. They'd sent over a couple of systems to try on customers cars that I had to send back, as they were TOO LOUD. I think it's fair to say that Scoobies are the noisiest things at idle we ever get in, and I have to even tell my chaps off sometimes if they are sat ticking over outside the office, and I'm trying to use the phone! Ironic really, as I'm usually talking to a Scooby owner, and I'm having to stop the conversation to go "SHUT THE F*^+ UP!"
We've found by experimentation that a three inch system, with a decent, fat, nicely padded rear box doesn't kill the power, but sounds fairly ok as well.
We keep a decibel meter for track day cars, and build them boxes which will pass a 100 db limit.
We've found by experimentation that a three inch system, with a decent, fat, nicely padded rear box doesn't kill the power, but sounds fairly ok as well.
We keep a decibel meter for track day cars, and build them boxes which will pass a 100 db limit.
12 January 2009, 10:16 PM
#44
Scooby Regular
Join Date: Aug 2006
Posts: 535
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
I hav parked my Scooby up outside where I live and next door neighbour has come out and said that its a lovely noise to listen to.
Im a bus driver and once a Sooby went by and could still feel the vibration when it was halfway up the road.
Im a bus driver and once a Sooby went by and could still feel the vibration when it was halfway up the road.
13 January 2009, 01:07 AM
#45
Scooby Regular
Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: dorset
Posts: 527
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
will do cheers. I appreciate people saying keep neighbour happy, fi tthe bung, but really why should i, just cos she doesnt like it ?? if the car is totally as it should be, its no louder than a motorbike etc. but cos its louder then her KA that makes it too loud. i a m starting to think **** her! :P
13 January 2009, 07:16 AM
#46
Scooby Regular
iTrader: (4)
Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: Glossop
Posts: 731
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
Firstly, I'd lose the turbo timer if I were you - They aren't much 'good' anyway, just stay off boost before you get home.
Secondly, cover your screen if its cold - that will save idling outside your house in the morning.
Secondly, cover your screen if its cold - that will save idling outside your house in the morning.
13 January 2009, 11:19 AM
#47
Scooby Regular
iTrader: (5)
Join Date: Sep 2007
Location: Hudds
Posts: 1,788
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
Thirdly, a bung might not fit anyway. What style tailpipe is it, Slash cut, inwardly rolled, oval?
Fourthly, run one of the old dears cats over that'll take her mind off things.
Fourthly, run one of the old dears cats over that'll take her mind off things.
15 January 2009, 09:15 PM
#48
Scooby Regular
Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: URZ The MadStad
Posts: 161
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
it might not sound loud, but an idling scoob, or any car with bassy exhaust can cause **** to vibrate on shelves, glass in internal doors etc. once someone gets wind of an annoyance, it will exaggerate how much much it annoys them the next time it happens. prob better to drive off boost for 5mins before you get home so no need for a turbo timer, and to de-ice the car without the engine running, it is far kinder to gently drive the car until it is warm than to leave it idling until it's warm. lots of debate and resons why on this subject.
Thread
Thread Starter
Forum
Replies
Last Post
fatboy_coach
General Technical
15
18 June 2016 03:48 PM