Fab-ruary

28 Feb Fab-ruary

From churning out intakes to making midsections, a good amount of work has passed through fabrication’s doors this month. And it doesn’t look like their pace is slowing at all.

To begin, the RS6 intakes are finished. Well, as finished as we can make them currently. The next two steps don’t involve any more building, and everyone is breathing a sigh of relief after cutting and welding the same design over and over again, ad nauseam. While we send the aluminum pieces off to the powdercoater, we’ll be constructing the instruction manual for installing the intakes. For now, though, the intakes remain painstakingly arranged, waiting for the powdercoaters to come pick up the parts.

Over on Eastway’s side, he was busy doing some secretive work with the mill earlier. We’re not going to divulge on what’s going on, but needless to say it needs to be exact, and it certainly looks like precision is being exercised right now:

We’re also currently working on a new velocity stack system for Dick Cook’s E46 M3 (which will then be released as an FMU-branded velocity stack setup for the E46, if it works out as well as it’s looking like it will). We can’t show you too many pictures, as it’s still in development and most of the “fun stuff” hasn’t even been added yet, but the work on this setup is moving incredibly fast, as we’ve got some deadlines looming, so look forward to more of this soon:

Next, Tom’s got Marilynn’s M45 up in the air, working on a vacuum-operated cutout for the exhaust. It’s not like your typical exhaust cutout, where the point is to use the cutout to bypass most of the exhaust system. Instead, this cutout is going to restrict the flow of exhaust during normal operation, quieting the car down a bit more. Once the pedal is mashed into the floor, though, the vacuum will open the cutout and allow the exhaust to retain its proper WOT aggressiveness. A bit more subtlety on the street for a car whose exterior aesthetic is anything but subtle (not that you’ve seen it yet, but we’ve got some tricks up our sleeve). Here’s a shot of the cutout, which you may remember from a certain Lamborghini exhaust:

And finally, Craig’s been hard at work finishing a tune for an Audi TT we’ve got in the shop. There’s nothing wrong with listening to a boosted-and-modified German engine screaming in the morning. Nothing wrong at all.