LJH Posted November 16, 2016 Posted November 16, 2016 (edited) Picked this up a couple of weeks ago... First things first it needed an exhaust so 5 days later I bought a DC Sports cats back system. For some reason reviews on DC exhaust were bad as people said it drones and has horrendous rasp around 2500-3k rpm so company discontinued it and prices dropped. So took a gamble as I had an e46 M3 which is just rasp everywhere and turns out DC exhaust isn't actually that loud, no drone at all and absolutely zero rasp and it is very good quality and pretty cheap. Only slight problem was a couple bolts could have been 10mm longer to make fitting easier and bolts supplied were made of chocolate so a couple stripped just normally tightening but DC exhaust was a good buy....decats to come I think. Edited November 16, 2016 by LJH Quote
Andy_Muxlow Posted November 16, 2016 Posted November 16, 2016 Hi nice looking car you have there buddy 🙂 welcome.. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Quote
davey_83 Posted November 16, 2016 Posted November 16, 2016 Smart in red, I like that!! Brave on the exhaust gamble, but looks like it's paid off. Quote
Roscoe Posted November 16, 2016 Posted November 16, 2016 Nice HR 👌 Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Quote
burgs Posted November 17, 2016 Posted November 17, 2016 Glad to see it back on here and know it's gone to a good home 👠Quote
andy james Posted November 17, 2016 Posted November 17, 2016 Nice car! Welcome along to the forum Quote
OliverB Posted November 24, 2016 Posted November 24, 2016 Great z in the best colour Couldn't agree more 1 Quote
redzed8 Posted November 25, 2016 Posted November 25, 2016 Lovely looking zed wish mine looked that tidy Quote
LJH Posted May 14, 2017 Author Posted May 14, 2017 So decided to sound proof it as road noise was proper doing my tits in... First up the boot was layered in 10mm closed cell foam with a 2mm vinyl layer glued on top... Lining the boot made a small difference. Next up was taking the whole rear interior out and place sound proofing over the arches... Both arches behind rear locker and subwoofer had NO sound proofing which is a joke really... ...and the tops had a tiny bit of tar stuff.. So covered the tops... Behind locker and placed the standard crap soundproofing mat thing further back which wasnt glued down so was just sliding about... ...and behind subwoofer. Car was peaking around 82db at 50mph and now floats around 75db. Doesn't sound like much but thats nearly 20% quieter...defo at must for these cars. 1 Quote
LJH Posted May 15, 2017 Author Posted May 15, 2017 Just taped it down incase it needs to come off in future 1 Quote
LJH Posted May 16, 2017 Author Posted May 16, 2017 Oops read that wrong...old soundproofing mats are taped down but on the new stuff the foam is already sticky and I just spray glued the vinyl onto the foam... Quote
OliverB Posted May 16, 2017 Posted May 16, 2017 Cheers, will have to give this a go sometime. Does it still fit the spare wheel etc? Quote
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