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Old 9th June 2017, 12:59 PM
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Default Milltek backbox 20 people needed :)

Emailed milltek last night asking if they could or would be able to reproduce a milltek backbox again for the audi a8/s8 d2 as they are no longer in production interestingly they came back with this answer.

Hi

Thank you for your enquiry.

As stated we have now discontinued this system and we wouldn’t be able to produce a single or couple of systems as the cost to swap the production lines over for a small quantity is too high.

We still have the jigs and are able to produce them but we wouldn’t look to produce in quantities less than 20.

Kind regards

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Still can't see it happening tbh... but good to get a reply.
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Did they quote a price for each unit or a total price for all 20 units ??
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No further information on individual unit prices, can enquire if interested?
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Old 9th June 2017, 03:07 PM
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Just straight-pipe the back box. Neil's 3.7 sounds gorgeous

I'm going to do it to mine as soon as it stops being broken - I'll document what I do, and make jigs so I can repeat it
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Old 9th June 2017, 03:54 PM
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Just straight-pipe the back box. Neil's 3.7 sounds gorgeous

I'm going to do it to mine as soon as it stops being broken - I'll document what I do, and make jigs so I can repeat it
Now THAT I would be interested in!
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Old 9th June 2017, 03:58 PM
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Just straight-pipe the back box. Neil's 3.7 sounds gorgeous
True, and not bad for a 3.7

I've been threatening to do mine as well, but I need to sort out the whining noise first.
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Just straight-pipe the back box. Neil's 3.7 sounds gorgeous

I'm going to do it to mine as soon as it stops being broken - I'll document what I do, and make jigs so I can repeat it
By straight pipe, do you mean a straight through style muffler (so a straight perforated pipe with sound deadening still in the box)?
Or straight solid pipes replacing the muffler?

I had a straight through cat back system on my old V8 Commodore. Single system 2.5" straight through muffler and resonator.
Sounded bloody fantastic and I'd love to repeat the experience with the S8.

The S8 is a single pipe between the two boxes yes? Is it 63mm (ie: 2.5")?
It would be quite easy to get an exhaust place to make up a straight through resonator with off the shelf piping and box.
So long as there's a resonator there, it shouldn't fail MOT there should it?
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Emailed milltek last night asking if they could or would be able to reproduce a milltek backbox again for the audi a8/s8 d2 as they are no longer in production interestingly they came back with this answer.

Hi

Thank you for your enquiry.

As stated we have now discontinued this system and we wouldn’t be able to produce a single or couple of systems as the cost to swap the production lines over for a small quantity is too high.

We still have the jigs and are able to produce them but we wouldn’t look to produce in quantities less than 20.

Kind regards

Milltek Sport Ltd
Realistically, this isn't going to happen, for the following reasons:

(1) You'd need 20 firm commitments from active D2 owners on here - assuming you're not also enlisting significant numbers of additional D2 owners elsewhere...

(2) Of a total of around 110 (optimistically..) active members listed on here, at a rough guess no more than 60 of those are D2 owners.

(3) To reach your total therefore, one third of those would need to:

a) Be interested,
b) Be currently (or in the near future...) needing a replacement,
c) Have the spare funds available to spare for this - including an up-front deposit that Milltek would probably ask for,
d) Be willing to commit to payment of this.

There's virtually no chance of this happening, so I think this idea is a non-starter.

I think a far better option is to do one of the following:

(a) Wait for a "spare' used Milltek to come free - unlikely, but still more likely than this plan...
(b) Get someone else to custom make one - likely to be far cheaper, and more tailored to individual needs,
(c) Use Amar's front-end approach to get a similar sonic fix.

I'll go for (a) or (b), and some of the posts on here probably reflect the reality of doing this as well, from what I've seen
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8abHWiETPvs&t=8s

I'm not custom exhaust fan, but here is a guy in Germany who will do custom exhaust for 550 euro installed. He is on German A8 D2 forums and on Facebook.
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