Big parcel arrived which contained this:
When I originally went to view the van it's exhaust was blowing really badly from both sides of the silencer joints. It had been badly patched up with Gun Gum and Fire Gum all over the flanges. So much so in fact that you couldn't even see the mounting studs/nuts anymore.
Believe it or not, it took nearly 3 hours to get the old silencer off. Once I'd chiselled all the cr@p off to reveal the nuts I soon realised they were never going to come off, especially since 2 of them are difficult enough to see let alone get to when they're fecked!
It quickly became obvious that the Gun Gum was there because somebody couldn't be bothered to go through the pain of dealing with the hard to access nuts. If they had done the job properly in the first place the silencer would still have been fine.
No pictures of the process as it was far too much of an ar5e for me to even give a sh*t at the time. After 3 sheared studs, drilling, grinding cutting and blood running down my arms, I got it off!
I feared that the Flanges on the manifold side would be shot but luckily they cleaned up OK.
During clean up of one side
Fitted. Bit dark at this point. Had to cut the rear valance in two places to make room for the tailpipes.
Cheap setup but does the trick.. Now that it has a silencer for each bank it sounds fecking amazing! More importantly it's driving soooo much better now.
