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Yo! Yeah, the idea is to be able to take a trip to the dragon with zero issues like I used to. I'm really sensitive to small mechanical issues with the car, so it has to be absolutely perfect before I feel comfortable going on a road trip. It's aaaaallllmost there hahaha
Completely understandable, its a long trip. If youre willing, id love to join the trip. Shoot me a text with details if you still have my number, if not and youre willing to let me join, Ill shoot you a message.
Going to do a shakedown at a track event prior to the trip?
Sidenote, once our city starts opening up again we have to do another Steve's meetup.
I was pretty happy with the sound of the T1R 70R-EM, but for a single exhaust it was pretty hefty, and it had been through some REAL abuse. I did at least 2-3 laps of Sebring with that thing dragging along the racetrack, which scraped up the muffler pretty bad, and it was just in poor shape overall. My good friend SHG_Mike was in the process of transitioning his car to more of a street-friendly setup, which meant he was looking to sell his LiteSPEC Ti 70mm single, which is an item I've always coveted. I've always wanted a titanium exhaust on my car, but I wasn't too fond of the typical J's racing singles, or the Tomei single. Anything Amuse was out of my price range, and I've found them to be brittle and not really up to the task for hard track use. This LiteSPEC exhaust had been cleaned up, re-packed, and re-welded for strength by Mike, and it sounded GREAT on his car, so when he offered it to me for a steal I couldn't refuse.
Obviously the first thing that strikes you is how insanely light the exhaust is. The whole exhaust including hardware and gaskets weighs ten pounds. The T1R I pulled off the car (pictured above) weighed 33 pounds! Once installed, I fired the car up and, uhh... it's loud, now.
VERY loud.
Here's a video of me ripping around some local backroads with my buddy recording:
The car is properly, inappropriately loud now. It's glorious. Everything about my car is, by track car standards, very low-key and under the radar. That's very much not the case anymore. Every little downshift, any time I roll into the gas feels naughty now. The sound the car makes when the computer switches to the big cam is straight-up race car. It bangs and pops on overrun, but not artificially so like every new Porsche or BMW. Sometimes, when I'm driving at night, I catch a quick flash of light in my rear view as a pop of flame comes out. Can you tell I'm excited by all this?
I'll likely keep this exhaust until I get bored or tired of it, but the only logical step from here on out is a 3" titanium exhaust. That's likely going to cost an ungodly sum of money, so I think this exhaust will be on the car for at least a few years.
05-18-2020, 06:44 AM
