Custom exhaust manufacturer

[Mattp]

I just thought Id share this as it maybe of use to someone... I was after a pipe for my car and came across a little independent exhaust fabricator, who just happens to be at the end of my road in Thorrington.
I was after an X-Pipe for the QP, but he was happy to inform me that my car already had one... so no money going his way! but before that he addressed various concerns about nose, saying that he would be happy to tune the pipe after it was built so that it had the characteristics that I needed... he also showed me round his workshop... On the ramp was a new alpine which a manufacturer has commissioned him to design a exhaust for and a meaty Porsche turbo - he showed me the titanium manifolds that he had just finished for that - super light, lovely even welds - metal ****!

so if anyone is after something a little different from the usual suspects, its well worth giving Stuart a nudge!

the website is pretty basic, but does show some of his work.

iwsdevelopments.co.uk

 

[Spartacus]

Looks good, Im considering a set of de cat/sqish pipes

 

[Felonious Crud]

I was after an X-Pipe for the QP, but he was happy to inform me that my car already had one...

They all do, but if yours is standard then it's jammed full of silencing gubbins.

Anyway, yes, it does look good. And local, as well. He looks like the kind of guy who cares about what he does. Those welds are a work of art! Thanks for sharing, Matt.

 

[Wanderer]

They all do, but if yours is standard then it's jammed full of silencing gubbins.

Anyway, yes, it does look good. And local, as well. He looks like the kind of guy who cares about what he does. Those welds are a work of art! Thanks for sharing, Matt.

Like mine, X-pipe is there but mufflered up

 

[Mattp]

Looks good, Im considering a set of de cat/sqish pipes

definitely give him a shout!

They all do, but if yours is standard then it's jammed full of silencing gubbins.

Anyway, yes, it does look good. And local, as well. He looks like the kind of guy who cares about what he does. Those welds are a work of art! Thanks for sharing, Matt.

he does enjoy his art, this was obvious with his eagerness to show me his workshop, the environment he works in and his pride in what he had made.

 

[Mattp]

Like mine, X-pipe is there but mufflered up

muffled inside the tubes? or with a muffler between the cats and the X - mine is same diameter pipe from the cats to the back boxes...

 

[Spartacus]

The fatory x pipes are perforated on the inside which knocks out alot of volume .

 

[Felonious Crud]

The fatory x pipes are perforated on the inside which knocks out alot of volume .

Yes, this. Externally they look more or less the same.

 

[azapa]

Yes, this. Externally they look more or less the same.

Exactly. Around those perforations is another layer of steel that holds fiberglass wool. Absorbs the pops, farts and general rasps we all enjoy!

 

[Felonious Crud]

Exactly. Around those perforations is another layer of steel that holds fiberglass wool. Absorbs the pops, farts and general rasps we all enjoy!

Kind of like a fun-sponge.

 

[Mike X]

Kind of like a fun-sponge.

Sounds like my X wife .
The standard pipes are really heavy too .