wtf is a cherry bomb?

[Shotgunsjay]

just been watching this clip on the tube

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=z2IYsrgWtwM

and the comments on the bottom

"thats nice sound man great! im going to get a 4 inch cherry bomb on mine, ill put a video of that soon !"

is it some sort of exhaust? im guessing its a chav thing?

 

[Hawkeye]

Exhaust,us old timers remember them.

 

[Coby.]

Shocking Exhausts... A Chavvy Guy at work fitted one to his Punto 1.2 8v and it made a hell of a noise

 

[Shotgunsjay]

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=LypfFlJ0_Qs

^^^^ fhook me, what a noise!

 

[Aluco]

Arent the just basically a straight through pipe from mani to pipe. No cat centre boxes or backboxes :S

Thats what my driving instructor told me anyway. He fitted one to a van :S

 

[TooneySonic]

yep old school chav exhuast. didnt know people still made these lol

 

[Henry]

they're basically bullet silencers, which is why they're so noisy

no sure when they first turned up - 60s/70s?

sound great on V8s; i remember a mate who had a SD1 with a pair on

 

[kully]

Oh dear , iirc 80's and 90's too .

 

[Timmay]

cherry bombs - good god utter shite

 

[Russ_16v]

bloody hell blast from the past lol, most are just straight through pipes, cracking exhaust back in the early 90s lol

 

[Henry]

they're American and came out of the hot rodding scene; wasn't long before they made it over here and were being fitted to Cortinas and Chavettes

 

[robson11]

haha a family friend had one on his 5 gt turbo it sounded shocking that was years ago, good times

 

[*Danny*]

Shocking Exhausts... A Chavvy Guy at work fitted one to his Punto 1.2 8v and it made a hell of a noise

LOL my mate did the exact same and it wus LOUD

 

[young_lew]

i know someone who fitted one to a Mk3 AUTOMATIC Golf!

pure comedy!

 

[Brett]

Loud exhausts on auto's sound awful. A omega round here has a SS exchaust and it just sounds cack because they hold the ratio's for ages without accelerating much if you get me.

 

[Dave..]

There was a cherry bomb centre section on the clio, before I ripped it off in disgust, and spat on it.

 

[Alastair.]

lol saw these on the bay the other day

 

[.Gem.]

Ouch

Death to ears!

:dead:

 

[markblack172]

i had one of these on my astra bout 6 years ago,

getting a cherry bom exhaust GOOD TIMES
having to admit i had one BAD TIMES
LOL

 

[sideways danny]

decent quality boxes for a center section TBH. Fitted a couple of cherrybomb muff-diver boxes to help with noise levels for track use and they did the job spot on. Back boxes are a bit tack though