Roman Posted October 2, 2007 Posted October 2, 2007 My silencer looks as thou it has finally given up the ghost, so looking to replace it. Can't afford (don't want to pay) the £200 odd that Westfield want, so was looking at some ready made alternatives. Does anyone have a bike silencer fitted to there car and if so what bike was it off or could I have some dimensions please? Quote
Blatman Posted October 2, 2007 Posted October 2, 2007 If you have an even remote urge to do a track day, don't bother with a bike silencer. Stump up the 200 quid or so for a proper silencer. It *is* money well spent. Speak to Wunoff or Simpson... Quote
Matt Seabrook Posted October 2, 2007 Posted October 2, 2007 On the other hand if you dont plan on doing a track day they sound great a friend had one on a 5.0l Griff powered Westfield and it made the walls of his garage vibrate when he fired it up Quote
DanB Posted October 2, 2007 Posted October 2, 2007 Have to agree with the Blatster. I've got a bike silencer on my (bike engine powered) Striker. The last sound test I gave it resulted in a reading of 118dB at 1 metre and 3/4 revs. The GF has suggested the car would be quieter without it. Dan Quote
Crazy Eddie Posted October 2, 2007 Posted October 2, 2007 Have to agree with the Blatster. I've got a bike silencer on my (bike engine powered) Striker. The last sound test I gave it resulted in a reading of 118dB at 1 metre and 3/4 revs. The GF has suggested the car would be quieter without it. Dan In your case that is a supprise (depending on what silencer it is ie Race) because I speciafically use my R1 can on my Megablade for track days as it is quieter than the Westfield supplied one. Quote
Crazy Eddie Posted October 2, 2007 Posted October 2, 2007 ^^^ Well Westfield Silencer = 110Db at 8000rpm and the R1 standard silencer = 99 at 8000rpm But naturally different on CEC anyway I guess Quote
Roman Posted October 2, 2007 Author Posted October 2, 2007 Track days - No, so noise is not an issue. Mark, have you got some photos of that set-up and also some details of which can you are using? I am looking at a bike can, because I can get them trade, so should be looking around £100. Quote
Martin Keene Posted October 2, 2007 Posted October 2, 2007 You will also have to consider mounting brackets, links pipes, etc which all push the cost up. When my exhaust failed a few years ago I looked at the bike route, but by the time I'd bought the can, paid somebody to make a link pipe which was included in the Wunoff price, brackets, etc. It was going to cost almost as much as the Wunoff, but be a lot louder. Quote
Crazy Eddie Posted October 3, 2007 Posted October 3, 2007 Track days - No, so noise is not an issue. Mark, have you got some photos of that set-up and also some details of which can you are using? I am looking at a bike can, because I can get them trade, so should be looking around £100. These are a couple of pics of my setup. Like I say I have the megablade and as far as I can tell the Westfield supplied silencer is just a motorbike silencer anyway. The can is a standard R1 exhaust (as carbon fibre finished and my R1 was quite queit) that I had a exhaust specialist add end pipe and connectiong pipe for £30. I then moved the mount (that is riveted on) so that I could still use my existing mount. Therefor it changes over with just 2 bolts for trackdays if the westfield one fails noise. Have a search on here for R1 exhausts though as some people have found that they loose noise reduction if permanently on car hence why is swap only for track days. Cheers Eddie Quote
Bean Posted October 3, 2007 Posted October 3, 2007 That looks very close to your bodywork, has it caused any problems? Quote
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