I've been building the Stew Rat in a council lockup 5 minutes from my home over the last year and over that time I've engaged with many of the neighbours as I worked on the car at evenings and weekends.
Ladies with their cars in neighbouring lockups.
The guy I helped attach a tow ring so he could go bring back stranded friends
Multiple toddlers "its a car!"
The guy who stopped by to tell me about fitting some crazy engine in an Astra and flipping it,
The ex VW mechanic, now college lecturer
The drunk who was in the driver seat going vroom vroom before I could stop him
and misc teenagers wandering the streets of an evening
they pretty much think what i'm doing is cool.
But last might I may have outstayed my welcome as I got the car running properly for the first time on merged headers and an empi stinger - at 10pm
Guy from across the road came to ask me if I was finished as his kid was "shiting himself"
So I think I need to get a muffler/silencer to keep the noise down away from the track?
The flange on my merged headers is 60mm bolt centres and 45 mm ID on the tube.
GSF/veewee have a fairly economical silencer, but they cant tell me what the flange size is.
http://www.veewee.co.uk/parts/exhaust/exhaust-mufflers/252vg0060?vehicle=VW-BeetleAny suggestions/recommendations?
(I should add this is a track only car, not street legal).
Thanks