I want to have a custom catback exhaust made for my S2000, has anyone ever had this done? I will be taking it to a muffler shop to get it don correctly, but I am just curious on what others paid. I would like for the resonator just behind the cat to be replaced with a straight pipe, and have a small, but very quiet sounding muffler to be installed with an exhaust diverter so I can push a button inside the car and go from quiet to loud. I am also plannign to use Vortex Cherry Bomb mufflers out back because I once had a crx with one of these mufflers on it and it sounded flipping awesome!

Anyone have any info on cost or noise level without the middle resonator?


Thanks!

 

I'vve had a couple different custom setups. My current, and best sounding IMO is the stock header back to the stock resonator. I had the Y-pipe cut off along with the mufflers, and had it replaced with a 3" stainless Y-pipe and 3" pipes with 4" rolled tips. No mufflers. It's not too incredibly loud, and there's not much drone because the stock resonator is still there. It's a very smooth sounding system that's almost silent when cruising, but screams pretty well when you get on it.
If you delete the resonator, expect it to be raspy and kind of annoying.

 

pics/vids?

 

Here's the best pic I have of the exhaust. Use your imagination, it's just 3" piping from a 3" Y-pipe. No mufflers. Here's a video I took last night doing a 3rd gear pull. It's a little louder outside the car obviously, but I don't have any videos of that.

http://instagram.com/p/a-GOoqNWCz/

 

Cherry Bomb mufflers? This will not end well.

I've run the OEM exhaust w/o the mid-pipe resonator and it sounds slightly aggressive but not raspy IMO. If you want just loudness, maybe a cut-out at that point would be OK. Quality custom work will cost as much as a name brand import cat-back, at least in my town.

 

do the UK mod instead with a high flow cat.

 

https://www.s2ki.com/s2000/topic/944056-exhaust-mod/
https://www.s2ki.com/s2000/topic/101...g-motorsports/

 

No, I'm not into modifying the stock system, opening it up, all that mess. Probably spend way too much time to do that. I'd rather take it somwhere, provide the mufflers I want, and have them do the rest. I don't have time to mess around with cutting stock exhausts and such nonsense.

edit: And I can't do anythign with the cat because I am trying to stay in 'stock' class for SCCA Autocross. They allow catback exhausts and air filter changes, but no other performance mods.

 

Ive had many custom set ups as well all with oem piping, from resonator delete with a single greddy muffler, to a spec v muffle with resonator back on, to open test pipe for just a few mins, and my current one which is oem piping dumped right after the resonator similar to weasels car except I don't have the pipes that lead to the back just dumped down after the resonator, I have a 63mm tp and fipk and it's the best exhaust set I've ever heard I LOVE IT, it honestly sounds like a formula 1 car to me, it looses that rice can Honda sound. Its not crazy loud driving normal but when you hit vtec you WILL get everyone's attention.

 

I am a customr 3 Inch dual turbo back with a resonator. I used the stock tips.

Here is a pic and a vid




http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ZsIInIgv0E