November 29th, 2011
Here at AA Silencers our customers and their cars are our top priority. We take great care in providing the customer with the exact service to suit their needs and budget. We love sharing in their passion for their car whatever car it is and whatever it gets used for. We hope that comes across in our blog and we’d be very greatful if you’d leave us your comments too. Likewise if we’ve been able to provide you a service or share the enjoyment you get from your car and we have accidentally missed you out then please contact us and we’ll get you up on our blog. Many thanks to everyone who has visted us.
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November 29th, 2011
We’ve done loads of these V6 signums now, and pound for pound they must be the best exhaust to do. The car should have 2 huge boxes at the back but without them the exhaust isn’t loud, it just has a nice growl to it. The back boxes go in the bin and we build some simple pipework with the customers choice of tips. Good looking, great sound and really cheap as there’s not much involved. Everyone’s a winner.
Tags: Exhausts, signum, stainless steel
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November 29th, 2011
If you’ve never driven a Roller you won’t be able to appreciate how effortlessly luxurious they are. This one was in need of some exhaust work and the owner wanted a full copy of the original exhaust in stainless steel. There are a lot of exhaust boxes in the twin system to keep it silent and the owner couldn’t stretch to having it all replaced, especially as a lot of it was still in remarkably good condition. Instead we built the required parts in mild steel and repaired other parts where required. The final bill was a fraction that of what he’d expected and he wafted off into the sunset, another happy customer.
Tags: classic, Exhausts, miild steel, Rolls Royce, stainless steel
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November 29th, 2011
A regular customer of ours runs this 924 carrera GT in the MSVR championship. He was due to race on a Saturday so opted for a quick test session the Wednesday before. The car arrived with us on Wednesday afternoon with an odd misfire and an hour later we had found a hole in one of the pistons. Not wanting him to miss out on any racing we set about stripping the engine down. By Friday lunchtime the car was running again and he made it to the race on Saturday.
Tags: engine rebuild, porsche, Race car
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November 29th, 2011
This BMW is a track day regular but as the owners talent has grown he felt the need for more grip. We carried out a full geoetry check but as a lot of the car was standard we could do little more than adjust the tracking. The customer decided to start his upgrades with a set of camber adjustable top mounts. These allowed us to improve the geometry to give him more front end grip. Next on the list is a set of coilovers. One step at a time though
Tags: 4 wheel alignment, BMW, suspension, Track day
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September 8th, 2011
This Ferrari P6 kit came to us for an exhaust build. The engine is from a 355 so I think it’s fair to say it’ll be loud. The problem is the car needs to meet the IVA compliance of 99db and have catalytic converters. the engine needs to breath freely though matched length primary headers and have it’s secondary air system, temperature sensors and lambdas included. The customer also wanted quad tips and a cross over adding, all in the space of about 3 feet and without fouling the closely fitting body. That’ll all add up to a challenge then. We just about squeezed it all in there, the pictures speak for themselves. The finished article looks beautiful but as the car is incomplete we couldn’t check the noise levels. we’ll continue to work with the customer though until his creation is on the road.
Tags: catalytic converter, crossover, Exhausts, ferrari, manifold, stainless steel
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September 8th, 2011
Particulate filters are the latest emissions control idea for Diesels. The only major problem is that they have a life span as short as 30,000 miles if a car only gets local town use and the dealers consider their £2000 replacement costs to be an acceptable service charge. Personally we feel that’s a more reasonable cost for a new engine, never mind a wearing component that you’ll need to change again. because of this we do a lot of DPF removals. We bypass the filter assembly and the car then gets sent to have the ECU decoded. the whole lot costs around £200 to £500 and you’ll never need another DPF. You’ll also gain a bit of power as an added extra. This BMW had a full stainless system built for better performance and had the car remapped while he was at it. It produced driveshaft snapping torque figures once finished.
Tags: BMW, diesel particulate filters, Exhausts, stainless steel
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September 8th, 2011
This beautiful old BMW is undergoing a rolling restoration and some gentle modernisation by it’s owner. Our part was to build a stainless rear section to the exhaust that gave the exhaust a nice tone but not too loud. squeezing in 2 reasonably sized baffle boxes was a tight fit but the sound was perfect and the customer was really pleased.
Tags: BMW, classic, Exhausts, stainless steel
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September 8th, 2011
This Astra race car came to us with a misfire that only occurs after half an hour or so of running on the race track. We did a few checks and a bit of digging around. The ECU is a Canems which we use quite a lot of. After running a little data logging and looking at the program it showed the injectors were running beyond their duty cycle and some temperature corrections seemed a little odd. We changed the whole throttle body assembly for one with bigger injectors and the car was remapped to suit. So far it looks as though the problem is solved.
Tags: astra GTE, canems, injectors
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September 8th, 2011
We had a highly strung new shape imprezza in recently that had modified and tweaked to within an inch of it’s life. The only problem was that it’s very expensive stainless exhaust was now a bit too loud. Rather than build a complete new system we designed and built a special slim line box with high temperature wadding to sit in the centre of the exhaust. The performance remains the same but the owner can get off his drive in the morning without the neighbours complaining.
Tags: Exhausts, imprezza, stainless steel, subaru
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