1.2 tdi polo-want more noise
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Ryan270600
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1.2 tdi polo-want more noise
Want a cheap and easily reversible mod to the exhaust, was thinking centre pipe, any ideas ? Also concerned about the dpf causing problems
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alexperkins
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Re: 1.2 tdi polo-want more noise
Not entirely sure why youd want to try get more noise from the TDI. Its not like petrol noise when you take the silencers out
With how MOTs are becoming from may, anything like this could cause it to fail.
With how MOTs are becoming from may, anything like this could cause it to fail.
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josh1073
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Re: 1.2 tdi polo-want more noise
You could look at one of these kits, it would require some work. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XVWlHwmGck but tbh i imagine it would sound like a tractor.
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Ricmondo
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Re: 1.2 tdi polo-want more noise
Whilst dealing in automobilia and obscure parts I sold some of those, one made in 1922 the other 1933. The best of that era were produced in North West London.
I have seen some of the later US ones made between 1950 and 1965, whilst the British ones were machined from solid the US ones were pressed steel, made for the hot rod brigade they were widely advertised and mostly not very good.
All of such cut outs suffered from corrosion from inside and clogging with road muck from the outside, they were also highly illegal in UK although some tried to argue in court that they were only illegal if they were used in an open position whilst on public roads claiming that shut they should be considered to be legal. The general legal consensus was that they had to be fitted with a locking device that could only be operated from outside the car with the vehicle stationary, any control within the vehicle rendering them illegal. Quite how that squares with the butterfly valves fitted to a number of current high performance cars I don’t know.
One of the things that has amused me over the years is the MoT testers advice that irrespective of absolute noise levels a vehicle should not produce more noise than the average for that type of vehicle. Now that’s means theoretically that half the vehicles of each model will be above average and half below, it doesn’t actually work like that due to confusion between norm and average but stay with me. So we take half the Polos off the road, the average then drops to half of the remaining until eventually there is only one Polo that can pass the MoT, keep your fingers crossed that it’s your Polo!
I agree, it probably would sound like a tractor.
I have seen some of the later US ones made between 1950 and 1965, whilst the British ones were machined from solid the US ones were pressed steel, made for the hot rod brigade they were widely advertised and mostly not very good.
All of such cut outs suffered from corrosion from inside and clogging with road muck from the outside, they were also highly illegal in UK although some tried to argue in court that they were only illegal if they were used in an open position whilst on public roads claiming that shut they should be considered to be legal. The general legal consensus was that they had to be fitted with a locking device that could only be operated from outside the car with the vehicle stationary, any control within the vehicle rendering them illegal. Quite how that squares with the butterfly valves fitted to a number of current high performance cars I don’t know.
One of the things that has amused me over the years is the MoT testers advice that irrespective of absolute noise levels a vehicle should not produce more noise than the average for that type of vehicle. Now that’s means theoretically that half the vehicles of each model will be above average and half below, it doesn’t actually work like that due to confusion between norm and average but stay with me. So we take half the Polos off the road, the average then drops to half of the remaining until eventually there is only one Polo that can pass the MoT, keep your fingers crossed that it’s your Polo!
I agree, it probably would sound like a tractor.