So I went to Spugen's shop and installed my brand new T1R exhaust for my S2000.

Here is how the exhaust looks brand new:

(Note: First 3 pictures are not mine)




After a hour drive home I inspected my exhaust:
(Excuse the 1st few pictures, they were with my camera)




After wiping stuff off with a towel...


Damn, what a buzzkill. The exhaust seemed to have plenty of clearance between the tip and the bumper. WTH happened?! After inspecting the exhaust, I noticed there were only two hangers on the right side. The exhaust can easily swing to the right with a sharp turn or jolt. When swinging to the right, the exhaust touches the rear valence. (I fixed the problem by securing the hangers).

Oh man, I was so pissed, so I looked in my garage and pulled out this:

 

After polishing the black off a bit, I noticed the blue/purple titanium color was faded. I didn't like the entire blue tip anyways and I preferred something like this: (the original T1R style tip)



30 minutes later:


Other side:


2 hours later:





I was pleased with the results. I'm sure I could do better with more work, but it was pretty hot so I decided to call it a day. I will have to sand down and work on the bumper another day. The tip should change color a bit, since it is titanium. Hopefully the "Ti Burned" look will look more gradual then. If not, I'll have to work on it.

FWIW, Here's the camera phone, my new Motorola V600:

 

I didn't take a picture, but after cleaning off the melted rubber residue, it was not blue underneath and very splotchy. I could not live with that.

If anyone is curious to see what the entire car looks like, here's one picture:


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so it had to be your car that i saw at the food plaza in aliso viejo/laguna nigel a couple months back! plaza includes restaurants as nalu's, pasta bravo, togos, rubios, pick up stix, etc.

i know i saw a silverstone w/ black GTN's and a single exhaust. im sure the T1R exhaust wasnt on then.

 

Yes, that was probably me. I'm always right by there, it's about 5 minutes from my house. Where do you live? I had the Spugen Ti single before this one. I wanted something a bit quieter.

 

Looks like you did a great job on making a blemish into a work of art . Performance alone, how do you compare the T1R to the Spugen? Any difference from your butt or real dyno?

 

i used to work right there on aliso viejo pkwy and liberty. i no longer work there. i live in torrance

i thought it was a spugen ti. great lookin car. sell me your rims if you ever decide to sell them

nice mtg ya.

 

What brace is that under the diff??