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Wow, that sucks, gigged before you could post a pick! Maybe less-tinted tint?
I installed smoke sidemarkers with reflective bulbs (ordered separately). Will have to take a day or more to decide whether I like it, but I think it works OK with the black. Gotta go after the fuel filter and the exhaust. Are we sure that the center muffler isn't just straight through? Not much room for pass tubes and the like in that spot.
well i've got the whole exhaust off of mine right now, so i'll try to take a look at it, but i'm afraid i might not be able to tell much without cutting it apart and unfortunately i still need this exhaust, but i'll see if i can help determine whether it's straight through or not.
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2000 Audi A6 4.2 Quattro Sport & Premium packages VAST Stage 2 custom ECU & TCU files 2003 SVT Cobra--sold 1967 Mustang--331 stroker 2007 Yamaha R6
Appreciate it. Bostondriver mentioned that, of two cars that did exhaust mods to RS4, his car with the full system was much more boisterous than the one that just did the rear/final mufflers. So that would tend to support the view that the final mufflers are just resonators to soak up a bit of the resonance. But unless the tubes or deflectors are tiny, I'm surprised that the middle muffler does much for sound/volume attenuation. Thanks for being willing to try to take a gander in there, I'll be interested to hear about what you are able to find. Hope your front end project is going OK- that would be a great undertaking to photodocument and add to the DIY section. You're covering a lot of ground.
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2002 Audi A6 4.2 black/tan, premium & sport. 4 SALE!! 2000 Jeep Grand Cherokee, OME +2, Pirellis, >sold< 1994 Ford Explorer Sport, 69K, no redeeming qualities whatsoever. 1983 Porsche 928 Euro S 5 speed, gold/brown. Rocks.
I had my center resonator replaced with straight pipe. Well, actually, I had high performance resonators installed initially. It sounded perfectly stock, so I went to the scrap bin and checked the OEM center muffler. It was straight-through, nothing but daylight. Dam##! So back to straight pipe. Even that made only a shade of difference in tone and volume. No easy way to go, I guess. Some seem to be marketing the Flowmaster Hushpower units to replace the OEM final mufflers. THey are roughly the right shape but are supposed to be fairly loud and utilize internal baffles which will add backpressure. Ah well, good enough for now. $150.
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2002 Audi A6 4.2 black/tan, premium & sport. 4 SALE!! 2000 Jeep Grand Cherokee, OME +2, Pirellis, >sold< 1994 Ford Explorer Sport, 69K, no redeeming qualities whatsoever. 1983 Porsche 928 Euro S 5 speed, gold/brown. Rocks.
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I had my center resonator replaced with straight pipe. Well, actually, I had high performance resonators installed initially. It sounded perfectly stock, so I went to the scrap bin and checked the OEM center muffler. It was straight-through, nothing but daylight. Dam##! So back to straight pipe. Even that made only a shade of difference in tone and volume. No easy way to go, I guess. Some seem to be marketing the Flowmaster Hushpower units to replace the OEM final mufflers. THey are roughly the right shape but are supposed to be fairly loud and utilize internal baffles which will add backpressure. Ah well, good enough for now. $150.
glad you figured it out because i couldn't make a definitive call on whether they were straight through or not just by looking at them. spoke with the dealership i bought the car from again today, and they've decided that they might help me out some on the repair costs, but they wanted one of our indy shops around here to take a look at it first. so i will literally unbolting the transmission from the engine when they decided this, so i just got done throwing everything back together so it can get looked at on tuesday. oh well, i guess them paying for some of it is much better than nothing, so we'll see what comes of it. if anything i guess i'll just have to take it back apart again, but it'll be much easier the second time around since i've already done it.
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2000 Audi A6 4.2 Quattro Sport & Premium packages VAST Stage 2 custom ECU & TCU files 2003 SVT Cobra--sold 1967 Mustang--331 stroker 2007 Yamaha R6
I put on my summer wheels/tires, washed, waxed, vacuumed, and detailed mine today :D Too bad its not amazingly sunny out but there was still time for a nice ride.
Positives and negatives this week...tore the throttle body boot (negative). However, got APR bi-pipe and their new R1 diverter valves. Expensive, but very worth it.
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00 A6 2.7T APR chip (Buy it unless you buy unsupported upgrades) 93 Octane Program 100 Octane Program 2.5" turbos back exhaust resonated with Magnaflows
Whats the difference in the tip codes folks are using? Boston Driver is on 00030, I think, but 01032 is cited above. Gotta check it out, either way.
Today- changed fuel filter...finally. Folks were saying in front of rear wheel, I figured that meant that it was between wheel well lining and the body. Jacked the car up and DOH, right there at the floorpan.
Did the transmission fluid. Only got 4qts or so changed, which stinks becuase the stuff that came out had all the viscosity of tap water and was pitch black. Not too much clinging onto the magnets though. That fill procedure is for the birds...
Did rear diff fluid- it looked pretty good.
Tomorrow hoping to fit pipercross air filter, and to fluid in middle diff and front gearset....I'm getting perplexed by the different boxes and names for them though. My VR4 had front and rear diffs and a transfer case. The final drive terminology is throwing me off, I think.
< Message edited by smtcapecod -- 5/7/2007 9:47:32 AM >
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2002 Audi A6 4.2 black/tan, premium & sport. 4 SALE!! 2000 Jeep Grand Cherokee, OME +2, Pirellis, >sold< 1994 Ford Explorer Sport, 69K, no redeeming qualities whatsoever. 1983 Porsche 928 Euro S 5 speed, gold/brown. Rocks.
Center or intermediate diff/drive whatever fluid change. Nice stuff came out, redline went in. Seems to be a little less gear/drivetrain noise. One more gearbox to go in front of the trans.
Also slammed a gi-normous new england pothole, got a flat, and think I knocked one of my 17" sport rims out of round..
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2002 Audi A6 4.2 black/tan, premium & sport. 4 SALE!! 2000 Jeep Grand Cherokee, OME +2, Pirellis, >sold< 1994 Ford Explorer Sport, 69K, no redeeming qualities whatsoever. 1983 Porsche 928 Euro S 5 speed, gold/brown. Rocks.
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