Any place to get the "UK" exhaust mod done?
07-22-2016, 06:14 PM
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07-23-2016, 07:10 AM
#5
This "mod" is highly variable depending on the pipe diameter you choose and if you choose wrong changing or removing it requires even more effort. Since I have no welding skills that's why I didn't mess with it.
Just put a good aftermarket exhaust on the car. Yeah it's more expensive but if you guess wrong, like I did, the remedy is simple: put a different exhaust on the car. My failure was the Invidia Q300 which was painfully loud (as your UK mod could easily be). Swapped in about half an hour for the Tanabe Medalion Touring. Yep, more expensive but it works.
-- Chuck
Just put a good aftermarket exhaust on the car. Yeah it's more expensive but if you guess wrong, like I did, the remedy is simple: put a different exhaust on the car. My failure was the Invidia Q300 which was painfully loud (as your UK mod could easily be). Swapped in about half an hour for the Tanabe Medalion Touring. Yep, more expensive but it works.
-- Chuck
07-23-2016, 07:31 AM
#6
This "mod" is highly variable depending on the pipe diameter you choose and if you choose wrong changing or removing it requires even more effort. Since I have no welding skills that's why I didn't mess with it.
Just put a good aftermarket exhaust on the car. Yeah it's more expensive but if you guess wrong, like I did, the remedy is simple: put a different exhaust on the car. My failure was the Invidia Q300 which was painfully loud (as your UK mod could easily be). Swapped in about half an hour for the Tanabe Medalion Touring. Yep, more expensive but it works.
-- Chuck
Just put a good aftermarket exhaust on the car. Yeah it's more expensive but if you guess wrong, like I did, the remedy is simple: put a different exhaust on the car. My failure was the Invidia Q300 which was painfully loud (as your UK mod could easily be). Swapped in about half an hour for the Tanabe Medalion Touring. Yep, more expensive but it works.
-- Chuck
07-23-2016, 09:21 AM
#7
Just pointing out the permanence of the UK mod. Unless you can weld it costs money to fit it, money to change, and money to get it off the car if you don't like it. I would consider this mod a major negative factor if I was buying the car. I = Me. We're all slightly different.
I strongly recommend never fitting the Q300 exhaust unless the driver and passenger wear hearing protection all the time. Or unless you're still in high school.
The K&N FIPK air induction system adds a bit of power and nice sound at WOT. I did this the first week (OEM parts in the attic.) Easy on, easy off, easy sell (or buy used). I'd fit one of these used long before cobbling the exhaust with welded bypass pipes.
-- Chuck
I strongly recommend never fitting the Q300 exhaust unless the driver and passenger wear hearing protection all the time. Or unless you're still in high school.
The K&N FIPK air induction system adds a bit of power and nice sound at WOT. I did this the first week (OEM parts in the attic.) Easy on, easy off, easy sell (or buy used). I'd fit one of these used long before cobbling the exhaust with welded bypass pipes.
-- Chuck
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07-23-2016, 10:04 AM
#8
Just pointing out the permanence of the UK mod. Unless you can weld it costs money to fit it, money to change, and money to get it off the car if you don't like it. I would consider this mod a major negative factor if I was buying the car. I = Me. We're all slightly different.
I strongly recommend never fitting the Q300 exhaust unless the driver and passenger wear hearing protection all the time. Or unless you're still in high school.
The K&N FIPK air induction system adds a bit of power and nice sound at WOT. I did this the first week (OEM parts in the attic.) Easy on, easy off, easy sell (or buy used). I'd fit one of these used long before cobbling the exhaust with welded bypass pipes.
-- Chuck
I strongly recommend never fitting the Q300 exhaust unless the driver and passenger wear hearing protection all the time. Or unless you're still in high school.
The K&N FIPK air induction system adds a bit of power and nice sound at WOT. I did this the first week (OEM parts in the attic.) Easy on, easy off, easy sell (or buy used). I'd fit one of these used long before cobbling the exhaust with welded bypass pipes.
-- Chuck
07-23-2016, 12:27 PM
#9
I'm really just pointing out how permanent the so-called UK exhaust by-pass really is. Requires a welding shop or skills and equipment and there's no guarantee you'll like it or even be able to tolerate it . Because it requires welding it's difficult to find the sound level you want/tolerate.
My routine disclaimer for anyone considering any change to their exhaust is to hear that exhaust from inside the car over a period of many minutes. Internet video sound levels get clipped by the mics and the speakers on our systems couldn't reproduce it anyway.
That comment is one of the unfortunate comments I read several times for months before I wasted several hundred dollars on the Invidia Q300 exhaust. As did a buddy. The noise and especially the drone in the 3000-4000 rpm range quickly proved unbearable. In the interest of full disclosure the exhaust was behind a Berk 63.5mm high flow cat. But, yeah, it was THAT loud. Everyone's noise tolerance is different. After about a month I had to get the Q300 off the car or risk the anger of my neighbors and my own hearing. I suspect many of the "it's not that loud" comments came from guys who didn't want to admit the exhaust on their was a mistake or can't afford the monetary loss involved in selling a use exhaust and are just living with it. It is no doubt acceptable to others. I can't imagine how loud the Invidia N1 exhaust might be, the Q300 measured in the vicinity of 105dBA on a noise meter. If your employer subjected you to this noise level you'd be required to wear hearing protection and have an annual hearing test. 
-- Chuck
Because it requires welding it's difficult to find the sound level you want/tolerate.My routine disclaimer for anyone considering any change to their exhaust is to hear that exhaust from inside the car over a period of many minutes. Internet video sound levels get clipped by the mics and the speakers on our systems couldn't reproduce it anyway.
The Q300 isnt even that loud,
-- Chuck
08-12-2016, 06:52 PM
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Had mine done by David Coffey (Coffey Can Fix It) 11252 lawyers Road Mint Hill | North Carolina 28227 Call 704.258.2437
I took the system off and carried to him. Absolutely the best $100 I've spent on the car. No drone.
I took the system off and carried to him. Absolutely the best $100 I've spent on the car. No drone.