Noise limit test

ryallm · Post by **ryallm** » Tue Aug 29, 2006 8:36 pm

Lawrence wrote: I have one

Brilliant! Any chance I could drop by your place for a quick noise test tomorrow or Thursday evening? You are in Fairmilehead, right?

Mark

jamie · Post by **jamie** » Wed Aug 30, 2006 5:00 pm

Let us know the results

ryallm · Post by **ryallm** » Wed Aug 30, 2006 5:06 pm

jamie wrote:Let us know the results

WHAT?? CAN'T HEAR YOU

Lawrence · Post by **Lawrence** » Wed Aug 30, 2006 6:18 pm

No problem Mark, just pop by and borrow it

I usually go just over the bypass at the Shell to avoid upsetting the neighbours

Great as they are, noise testing is a NO NO here

ryallm · Post by **ryallm** » Wed Aug 30, 2006 8:01 pm

Lawrence wrote:No problem Mark, just pop by and borrow it

I usually go just over the bypass at the Shell to avoid upsetting the neighbours

Great as they are, noise testing is a NO NO here

Ok, could I call in tomorrow (thurs)? evening. I could pop in after work as my office is just a few minutes away at the Bush estate. What time would be convenient? Oh, and I don't actually know your address.

Many thanks,
Mark

jonathannealeuk · Post by **jonathannealeuk** » Wed Aug 30, 2006 10:00 pm

Mark,

If you can't get to Lawrence's then I have a noise-meter at work (between Perth and Stirling) if that's any use.

cheers

Jonathan

(I'm lucky, Lawrence as the only people I can annoy with noise tests is the golfers on Gleneagles - puts them right off their putts apparently

)

ryallm · Post by **ryallm** » Thu Aug 31, 2006 3:09 pm

jonathannealeuk wrote:Mark,

If you can't get to Lawrence's then I have a noise-meter at work (between Perth and Stirling) if that's any use.

cheers

Jonathan

(I'm lucky, Lawrence as the only people I can annoy with noise tests is the golfers on Gleneagles - puts them right off their putts apparently )

Jonathan,

Thanks for the offer, but I am hoping to catch Lawrence this evening. Does anyone happen to have his mobile number?

Mark

ryallm · Post by **ryallm** » Thu Aug 31, 2006 9:39 pm

Well, Lawrence kindly lent me his noise meter (many thanks!) and................as I suspected the Larini exhaust is LOUD. 102db static at 8000rpm, so definitely not on for Croft. Just finished putting the standard exhaust back on, which consisted of about 20 minutes to easily remove the under tray and the Larini, and about an hour of swearing and skinned knuckles to get the huge brut of a standard zorst back on. Car now sounds like a toyota Corolla, but at least I'll be on track on Saturday

Interestingly the comments above about the highest reading coming just as you lift off the throttle rather than when you are holding it at high revs are definitely right - I was watching the read out as my lovely assistant (ok, my rather bemused other half) was revving the car and the reading seems to go up by as much as 2db just as you lift off.

Mark

mckeann · Post by **mckeann** » Thu Aug 31, 2006 10:42 pm

remember, they dont test at 8000rpm, only approx 6000rpm, and less if you can get away with it

tut · Post by **tut** » Fri Sep 01, 2006 4:05 am

I have the Larini on Mark, and you would think that it would have a similar reading with my Honda as your Yota.

However I have no CAT on, and am around 90db at 4500rpm.

tut

ryallm · Post by **ryallm** » Fri Sep 01, 2006 7:25 am

mckeann wrote:remember, they dont test at 8000rpm, only approx 6000rpm, and less if you can get away with it

Well, I guess I might just have scraped under the limit, but it would be long way to drive if I was not allowed on track, so probably not worth the risk. In any case I had been starting to find the Larini a bit much - it sounds better than any other Yota exhaust I have heard when you are on it, and has much less mid range boominess than a stage 2, but think I might go for something a bit more subtle. Be interested to hear a 2Bular by way of comparison - Ed, if you are reading this, have you got yours yet?.

Mark

tut · Post by **tut** » Fri Sep 01, 2006 8:03 am

Mark

Ali also has one of Jims latest exhausts fitted, and if you go the manifold route as well, there is a worthwhile increase in power. Your Larini would sell on for a good price.

A lot of the development work was done on Uldis's Exige, but that is with the K series.

tut

Post by ed » Fri Sep 01, 2006 9:37 am

ryallm wrote:
mckeann wrote:remember, they dont test at 8000rpm, only approx 6000rpm, and less if you can get away with it
Well, I guess I might just have scraped under the limit, but it would be long way to drive if I was not allowed on track, so probably not worth the risk. In any case I had been starting to find the Larini a bit much - it sounds better than any other Yota exhaust I have heard when you are on it, and has much less mid range boominess than a stage 2, but think I might go for something a bit more subtle. Be interested to hear a 2Bular by way of comparison - Ed, if you are reading this, have you got yours yet?.

Mark

It arrived yesterday! will drop you a line once its been fitted, cheers eD

jj · Post by jj » Fri Sep 01, 2006 11:55 am

Mark, what would you be doing with your Larini?
It looks like I will be keeping my car I wouldnt mind trying it out or if you would sell it?

ryallm · Post by **ryallm** » Fri Sep 01, 2006 12:06 pm

jke11y wrote:Mark, what would you be doing with your Larini?
It looks like I will be keeping my car I wouldnt mind trying it out or if you would sell it?

Think I might sell it at a mucho reasonable price

- let me know if you are interested. Could help with fitting too.

Mark

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