I picked up my exhaust from a UPS shipping center today after work. Since it was shipped with signature confirmation I couldn't rely on the UPS man coming over after 5pm. A minor inconvenience.

A bigger inconvenience was getting the box to fit into the car! It was a lot bigger than I thought it was going to be (that's what she said). I was in a '05 Civic Coupe and it was a tight fit.


Once I got it home and found some batteries for the camera I opened the box. Behold!
1 Great packaging.


2 Crappy photo.


3 Crappy bead (welding term). The welder was moving too fast.


4 Again, could be better.


5 We'll check out these spot welds in a year to see how they're holding up.


6 The best welds are always on the tip because that's what you'll see.


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Installation photos.
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2 Figured out what the bracket was for.


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4 The top cat bolt broke removing the stock exhaust. Guess I'll be getting a test pipe.


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Big thanks to Steve (sjs0433) for helping with the install and shooting video/photos.

Teaser Video!
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WtiJ3KaaGqs [/media]

Final video that's very thorough. Thanks again to Steve for helping and filming.
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DxzrnSU1rcQ [/media]

My thoughts are for the money it sounds amazing and looks good. Listen to the videos with a large helping of salt because it really does no justice to the actual sound. Top down driving is amazing. Top up it's boomy when not going WOT and when I am WOT with the top up I get more intake sound. All in all though, for the money it looks and sounds fantastic! As for power gains, I can't tell. I'll be installing a test pipe in the next couple of weeks and I'll update this thread with more video if it sounds any different. I hope this helps and sorry if it seems like overkill. I like to be very thorough in life.

UPDATE 5/3/2010

Dyno results are in. This was a Dynojet dyno. Mods are K&N FIPK, stock cat, this exhaust. I have no other dyno results to compare against but searching the forum I found these stock AP1 results:

Dyno Dynamics
Stock 209.1hp 134.3tq

Dynojet Research
Stock 208.49hp 137.71tq
Stock 189.85hp 131.29tq

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=odhTAAYEfEg [/media]

 

This is great info. Looking forward to the install.

 

Looks good!

 

nice exhaust!

what are your current mods?

 

JUST got done installing mine. I'll add my impressions to this thread as well if the OP doesn't mind.

 

Nothing fancy, just a K&N FIPK, Tein S-Techs and OEM lip and spoiler.

 

Go for it.

 

Thomas that little piece you were wondering about mounts to one of the diff mount bushings. It'll hold one of the hangers for the exhaust. My t1r had a very similar piece. See you tomorrow.

 

Wow.. those welds look like hell... I'm really beating myself up over ordering this or not. That's not helping.... either is the angled tip

 

^I'm with you. I know for a fact the exhaust will look great on an ap1 I just haven't been sold with it's look on an ap2. I think if it had a turn down tip like the J's I'd be all over it. The J's is the only n1 style exhaust I actually really really like the look of on ap2 rear.

I wonder how hard it would be to make my own tip