Ive been wanting an exhaust for sometime and finally got the money for a custom one but i was wondering if it was worth spending all this money on an exhaust system if it wont give me car to much extra horsepower. Plus i dont want the horrible drone from an exhaust system(would be awefull in an automatic). My question is, should i go with an exhaust system or just get the mufflers?

 

From what I've been told, do the headers...ask Distortedolskool....I can't remember the name of the other guy I was talking to about it

 

If you're going to do exhaust for performance, then you need to replace/rebuild it front to back. Most just slap on a muffler, or a cat-back and don't gain much because they're too limited at the beginning.

To get any real performance gains, you will need headers, high flow cat(s), custom piping, a resonator (if you want to keep it quiet) and a performance muffler. I have all of the above, pieced the whole system together myself, with custom piping, and just slapped a quieter muffler on my exhaust, and now it's perfect. Also noticed some nice performance gains from it

 

Let us know what you decide to do/modify....

 

firs thing i did was the headers.. and holy shit it was like adding all my mods all over again.... then i did the ct mufflers a year or so ago.. and then finally about 4 months ago or so i got the xlr8 high flow cat......

honestly the headers made more pwr than all my mods combined prolly... u can feel and hear the headers even if u were def..

mufflers i did for sounds... and hfc i did cause i wanted the last mod i could buy for my car.

 

Headers is where I'm at , sounds good .
I'm gonna get a hfc and than go larger tubing .

 

i think it would be bennefitial to do larger piping.. i just didn't wanna spend more money and i also wanted to be able to do everything myself... i hate when ppl work on my car. most ppl are sloppy and are not 100% honest.

which is why i do everything myself, and if i cannot do it.. which so far has been 2 transmission overhauls, and timing belt/water pump. i take it to my buddy who only works on acuras and saved my car from being a write-off.

 

I decided to take my stock resonator off, it sounds like a g35 now and only has rasp when the car is cold, ill make a vid and post it after i get off work. Ive been looking at headers and there pretty expensive. You guys know any headers that are cheap but give good performance gains?

 

I've heard the XS headers are good...

 

ill have to give them a look.

heres the vid of my mid muffler delete, tell me what you think. honestly i think it sounds pretty cool, it does however get raspy when the car is cold but thats not that big of a deal to me

 

i just cannot stand a constant hmmmmmmmmm so i could never do anything more to the exhaust... when i was younger... louder = better... but something in me has changed now that i have grown up a little lol.

 

That was a nice, edited short film there Director Briggsypn... And bless you child for using your blinker!

If you like the sound, then all's well....

CL-S Pro, do you have a clip of your exhaust somewhere for comparison?

 

no i dont but it would not be a great comparison because my mufflers had holes in them so when i added the ct mufflers it barely changed the sound which is why i went for the cat. u may have holees in ur mufflers too on the top of the muffler facing the trunk.. i was wondering why my car sounded like a g35 lol and when i removed the mufflers it was clear lol

 

LOL! Well darn....

Mike, do you have any clips of your exhaust?

 

I haven't done a vid of my exhaust yet and I said I would when I put it in but all I have is a camera phone and I would have to hold it myself.

 

Actually there isnt any hum when im just cruisin. I was putting the pettle down in those video clips of mine so you could hear the pne of the exhausts as they are now