Took the LC upto Awesome today to have a cat-back non-resinated Milltek fitted - and the drive home was indeed awesome!
I've been thinking about gettinga new system for a while now... and now that it is fitted I wish I had done it sooner. The big question I needed an answer to was how a non-res system would sound inside the car, it also seemed to be a question that others were asking as well.
So my review/opinion would be - non-res was the right choice. As soon as the ramp was lowered down and the techy reached in to start the car it sounded bl00dy great, it fired into life with a nice deep boom that stopped the conversation I was having in the waiting/gallery area and me and another customer both said that sounds good.
So the drive home was 70 miles and it had all the types of road needed to work out if I like the sound or if it was to much. Soon as I drove off I pulled over to ring the wife (... like you do when you've spent money) and the car was ticking over with a steady slightly deeper burble than OEM.
After a few miles I was onto the motorway and when crusing around 70-80 there appears to be little or no more noise, which was a big relief cause my biggest fear with the non-res system was enountering drone when crusing.
After the motorway there was a little town driving, sitting in traffic and pulling away gave me the chance to see how would be for everyday driving. Pleased to report that it was louder but not chavy - just deep and solid.
The final test came on the twisty up/down section and this is where the system came alive. I got stuck behind a caravan and as soon as I'd come out of a harpin I nailed it past (in a safe manor
) and at top revs in second the pipe gave a little pop at the same tine as the DV letting go . It was hailstoning a few minutes later and so I had to back off which was OK cause I just kept blipping and changing gear for the bends. It just sounds so good that I couldn't stop griining!
The only time I encountered any drone from the new system was when I dropped the car into 3rd to let the revs control the speed down a steady decline. The car stayed around 3.5k for a good few seconds and it did seem to hang on a heavy drone. But it wasn't the end of the world and by the time I'd got home I hadn't noticed again.
The pic's don't do the tail pipes justice cause they look a lot better in the flesh and fill the bumper cut out just right. Looking down from above they stick out a littler further than OEM but still have the slightly staggered finish to follow the lines of the bumper.
... oh and on a final note - the system has already started to sound deeper and fuller after only 70 miles. Once its had a few weeks to coke up I think it will sound even better.
(excuse the dirty car - by now it had done 140 miles encountered a dust storm on the M1 and hailstones on the snake pass).
I've been thinking about gettinga new system for a while now... and now that it is fitted I wish I had done it sooner. The big question I needed an answer to was how a non-res system would sound inside the car, it also seemed to be a question that others were asking as well.
So my review/opinion would be - non-res was the right choice. As soon as the ramp was lowered down and the techy reached in to start the car it sounded bl00dy great, it fired into life with a nice deep boom that stopped the conversation I was having in the waiting/gallery area and me and another customer both said that sounds good.
So the drive home was 70 miles and it had all the types of road needed to work out if I like the sound or if it was to much. Soon as I drove off I pulled over to ring the wife (... like you do when you've spent money) and the car was ticking over with a steady slightly deeper burble than OEM.
After a few miles I was onto the motorway and when crusing around 70-80 there appears to be little or no more noise, which was a big relief cause my biggest fear with the non-res system was enountering drone when crusing.
After the motorway there was a little town driving, sitting in traffic and pulling away gave me the chance to see how would be for everyday driving. Pleased to report that it was louder but not chavy - just deep and solid.
The final test came on the twisty up/down section and this is where the system came alive. I got stuck behind a caravan and as soon as I'd come out of a harpin I nailed it past (in a safe manor
) and at top revs in second the pipe gave a little pop at the same tine as the DV letting go . It was hailstoning a few minutes later and so I had to back off which was OK cause I just kept blipping and changing gear for the bends. It just sounds so good that I couldn't stop griining!The only time I encountered any drone from the new system was when I dropped the car into 3rd to let the revs control the speed down a steady decline. The car stayed around 3.5k for a good few seconds and it did seem to hang on a heavy drone. But it wasn't the end of the world and by the time I'd got home I hadn't noticed again.
The pic's don't do the tail pipes justice cause they look a lot better in the flesh and fill the bumper cut out just right. Looking down from above they stick out a littler further than OEM but still have the slightly staggered finish to follow the lines of the bumper.
... oh and on a final note - the system has already started to sound deeper and fuller after only 70 miles. Once its had a few weeks to coke up I think it will sound even better.
(excuse the dirty car - by now it had done 140 miles encountered a dust storm on the M1 and hailstones on the snake pass).
