Milltek Exhaust

[plasticfantastic]

Hi all,

Just a warning not to buy cheap rubber ones from ebay, they're not even rubber! mine gave out in 3 months!

Jubilee clips work a treat if you cut a lenght of rubber hose (gas hose or similar) split it down the side and wrap it around the clip.
Havent had to do this on the Mk2 yet but worked a treat on one of my volvo's......

cheers

[DarnPB]

Went to the exhaust place today and the chap said he will be able to do something with the sheds exhaust. He is going to replace the cat with a by-pass tube the same diameter as the rest of the system, and so do away with the reducer. This should bring the system forward a little and re-align the hangers. He will then weld on additional hooks to the exhaust to give it more support and hang the thing higher with poly rings instead of the rubbers. I'm off to Spain next weekend so the following weekend is 'D-day'. Hopefully it should be good for the following weekends' meet near Oxford.

[OakeyDoak16v]

That sounds great! Is it a national specialist or local? Also, how much did he quote if you dont mind me asking?

[DarnPB]

The tube he is going to manufacture on site, complete with the lambda mount and thats going to be about 75 quid. The rest is just time and he thought an hour should do it. 50 an hour though, so it had better be a decent job! He seemed to know what he was talking about. Mike Stokes Motorsport in Moordown, Bournemouth.

[paultownsend]

i had a jetex 2.0" fitted friday. its certainly alot quieter than the milltek.  but it doesnt pull as well in higher revs. negligable though. a customer from the garage even took my milltek for the asking price    good times

fitting seems good. i just really dislike the 2 80mm massive pipes. im sure a custom place could sort that out for me

[OakeyDoak16v]

Well apparently www.eurocarperformance.co.uk have milltek's in stock for mk2's? Check it out guys?

[Ben Lessani]

You mean http://www.europerformance.co.uk/ ?

[OakeyDoak16v]

You mean http://www.europerformance.co.uk/ ?

Yes that's the one.  False alarm anyway, just gave them a call and they apologised for not updating their web site. As i thought really.

[Conker]

I've spent all night hanging the frigging jetex exhaust.  Too tired for complex words so...

1)  Its about 20% heavier than the standard system, although my "standard system" was a tinny non-vw item (hence why it fell to bits).
2)  Build quality seems very good, although the black coating on the exhaust comes off very easily.
3)  Jubilee clips used on all but one of the hanging points. It sits nicely, but I'm concerned that the clips will shorten its lifespan as it can't "bounce" with the bumps???  (advice?)
4)  The rear hanging point is a bit sh!t  -  if I used the included rubber the exhaust would be hanging very low down. Mine seemed to naturally sit at the right height anyway so I used a tight jubilee clip.
5)  The drive is alot more responsive now. 
6)  The noise is perfect. No louder than the previous system really. A nice grumble at idle and no noticeable extreme of noise at the top end.

[OakeyDoak16v]

My rear hanger has dropped off so i use a big fat zip tie and a poly rubber atm. I have found this to be more effective than i thought it would be (touch wood) so far 3 months and no problems. Checked it recently and no stretching of the ties as i thought may happen. For sure it's gonna perish at some point but i keep a couple of spares in the boot just in case. Ghetto? Dont really think so, just a cheap effective fix with no rear beam knocking.