Conaero's Spider Rebuild

[conaero]

Indeed, at least I have seen sense and will tone it down.

 

[GeoffCapes]

Nail n the head there Matt...'its not pleasant'..............Never understood why you would want to be louder than anyone else....I like a great sounding car but you have to be able to drive it without it making your ears bleed...Loud does not mean a great sound...... Remember driving a members 4200 with a Larini and the drone at 70 was terrible....it got right on my tit.......When I drove Blondies Stradale that was perfect and couldn't see why you would want louder.....

On my 4200 there's a bit of drone at 70, and I'm not a fan of it at all. The answer I found was to drive at 80-90 and it disappears completely!

The H pipe should change that as well.

 

[Jkulin]

....then another £250 to get the Cat D removed.....

Matt just enjoying the read of your rebuild and not got to the end yet but noticed this, are you saying that you can remove the Cat D off the vehicle?

 

[MAF260]

Matt just enjoying the read of your rebuild and not got to the end yet but noticed this, are you saying that you can remove the Cat D off the vehicle?

My understanding is that you can change the status to inspected, but you can never remove the Cat C/D.

 

[StuartW]

On my 4200 there's a bit of drone at 70, and I'm not a fan of it at all. The answer I found was to drive at 80-90 and it disappears completely!

The H pipe should change that as well.

I would imagine that the H pipe would make the drone louder or am I mistaken?

 

[conaero]

My understanding is that you can change the status to inspected, but you can never remove the Cat C/D.

This is correct. its about £250 but the car had a holed sump and thus a rebuilt engine with zero bodywork or structural so its a bit of a wast of time for me. I may do it if I ever sell it.

 

[GeoffCapes]

I would imagine that the H pipe would make the drone louder or am I mistaken?

We shall see (hopefully this afternoon). If it is too much, I'll change the back boxes. Or just drive at 80-90 everywhere!
I would imagine it will change the tone of the exhaust regardless.

 

[StuartW]

We shall see (hopefully this afternoon). If it is too much, I'll change the back boxes. Or just drive at 80-90 everywhere!
I would imagine it will change the tone of the exhaust regardless.

It will be interesting to hear your review of the H pipe. And I'm impressed that the radiator arrived that quickly from Italy too

 

[GeoffCapes]

It will be interesting to hear your review of the H pipe. And I'm impressed that the radiator arrived that quickly from Italy too

I'm looking forward to annoying the neighbours further with it!

As for the speed of delivery. Like most things, if you want something delivered quicker than normal you have to pay for that service. Lets just say it wasn't that cheap, but I didn't want to wait two weeks for it.
Doesn't look like I'll be picking the car up today. Unless I get a call in the next 20 minutes of course.

 

[Jkulin]

Well Matt, I would just like to personally thank you, in between telephone calls I have got Sweet FA done reading this thread, cheers only lost a couple of grand whilst reading it

Seriously that looks the bollox, only wish I had the time and patience (and skill) to do something like that.

Thanks for not wasting my time, truly enjoyed the read

 

[conaero]

Well Matt, I would just like to personally thank you, in between telephone calls I have got Sweet FA done reading this thread, cheers only lost a couple of grand whilst reading it

Seriously that looks the bollox, only wish I had the time and patience (and skill) to do something like that.

Thanks for not wasting my time, truly enjoyed the read

Well thank you John, you saw the car at Ace a few weeks back but I must say she is mint and I recon the best example of a GTA Spider out there, regardless of history.

There were only ever 37 Phase 3, 3.2 (916 GTA - 10 Silver/2 Black/4 Blue/1 Grey/13 Red) right hand drive spiders shipped to the UK. I can't see any other right hand drive examples going to other right hand drive territories.

Of those, some will have been scrapped now, and the cars left, half of those will be tatty and/or high mileage.

My car is a 1 owner from new, 25k mile car, final limited edition (wheels plus other trim) and has had a complete respray to the entire body, inside and out, undersealed, powder coated wheels and callipers and suspension struts, springs and wishbones. Engine out, rechromed and repainted block and gearbox plus stainless exhaust.

So I recon mine is one of only 5 or so cars in exceptional condition.

GTV 916 Coupes there where only 57 Phase 3, 3.2 (916 GTA - 15 Silver/11 Black/11 Blue/5 Grey/15 Red) and I had one of those from new too. I still know the current owner.

 

[Jkulin]

There so much going on that evening Matt and I hadn't read this thread before, so didn't view your car in the same light that I would now, she's really lovely.

Hopefully next time I get down to the Ace then will be able to get to see everything in a better light.

 

[lisknik]

Well thank you John, you saw the car at Ace a few weeks back but I must say she is mint and I recon the best example of a GTA Spider out there, regardless of history.

There were only ever 37 Phase 3, 3.2 (916 GTA - 10 Silver/2 Black/4 Blue/1 Grey/13 Red) right hand drive spiders shipped to the UK. I can't see any other right hand drive examples going to other right hand drive territories.

Of those, some will have been scrapped now, and the cars left, half of those will be tatty and/or high mileage.

My car is a 1 owner from new, 25k mile car, final limited edition (wheels plus other trim) and has had a complete respray to the entire body, inside and out, undersealed, powder coated wheels and callipers and suspension struts, springs and wishbones. Engine out, rechromed and repainted block and gearbox plus stainless exhaust.

So I recon mine is one of only 5 or so cars in exceptional condition.

GTV 916 Coupes there where only 57 Phase 3, 3.2 (916 GTA - 15 Silver/11 Black/11 Blue/5 Grey/15 Red) and I had one of those from new too. I still know the current owner.

How'd you get the numbers of the colors Matt? Would lovr to know how many white 156's there actually are....

 

[conaero]

off google, some alfa site had the Excel files from Alfa UK

 

[conaero]

My Alfa Spider 3.2 V6 now with full Ragazzon, eat your heart out Benny:

 

[maverick]

Is it on ?

 

[conaero]

It's mentally loud, I will be toning it down. Just need to find out who makes Ragazzon exhausts, I recon I know who it is.

Benny, can you ask the question?

 

[BennyD]

Will do.

 

[conaero]

Ta, ask them to price putting a silencer in the rear section of the back tailpipe, up by the rear hanger, like this:

This is what I have:



And this is what I want done, I'll ship it to them:

 

[BennyD]

Will do.