exhaust
Joined: Apr 2007
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From: Rockford illinois/Las Vegas
Had the Invidia N1 on mine for a couple years. It was the biggest reason for gutting the audio out (you'd have to crank it to hear anything when driving. Music is overrated anyway), and it put my girlfriend to sleep when on the highway (at the time).
I enjoyed the aggressive tone, and analyzed everything coming out of it at all levels of throttle position. But police enjoyed it more, because they routinely waited in the routes that i'd take home after work.
So, i went back to stock, and could no longer hear my car. But, no one would think you were trying to race them by normal acceleration when the light turned green.
It was AMAZING when some d-bag motorcyclist couldn't help but to throttle masturbate at the lights, or pull a quick clutch in rev when passing your window. It was a nice stfu back and had moments of outshining the WOT of a Harley guy tying to hot dog it past you because the top is down and they get a hard on blasting by vehicles with windows open... And you're the guy with everything down.
Anyway, I'm back to stock, and my car is back to being a bit stealthy. The N1 took a huge hit on anything in the low end of your powerband, but loved to breathe on the highway or spirited cornering. So, in-town/city driving felt like you had a pizza oven strapped to your intake blowing hot ass air in it at all times, causing regular take offs to feel like an uphill battle on a bicycle with a asthma attack (it didn't really screw your intake up, but didn't provide the correct back pressure. I liken the effect to heat bog in the summer).
It really was that noticeable in slow speed accelerating over stock exhaust.
I do find myself wanting to get an exhaust again, and find that an exhaust for this car is really about the sound you get from it (unless you had supporting mods/tune, or you are FI).
The HKS hi-power and SSM sound really nice, but it's really just an opinion in the end.
If you're after gains of all kinds? Find yourself a full titanium single headerback.
But you'll pay out the a$$ for it.
I enjoyed the aggressive tone, and analyzed everything coming out of it at all levels of throttle position. But police enjoyed it more, because they routinely waited in the routes that i'd take home after work.
So, i went back to stock, and could no longer hear my car. But, no one would think you were trying to race them by normal acceleration when the light turned green.
It was AMAZING when some d-bag motorcyclist couldn't help but to throttle masturbate at the lights, or pull a quick clutch in rev when passing your window. It was a nice stfu back and had moments of outshining the WOT of a Harley guy tying to hot dog it past you because the top is down and they get a hard on blasting by vehicles with windows open... And you're the guy with everything down.
Anyway, I'm back to stock, and my car is back to being a bit stealthy. The N1 took a huge hit on anything in the low end of your powerband, but loved to breathe on the highway or spirited cornering. So, in-town/city driving felt like you had a pizza oven strapped to your intake blowing hot ass air in it at all times, causing regular take offs to feel like an uphill battle on a bicycle with a asthma attack (it didn't really screw your intake up, but didn't provide the correct back pressure. I liken the effect to heat bog in the summer).
It really was that noticeable in slow speed accelerating over stock exhaust.
I do find myself wanting to get an exhaust again, and find that an exhaust for this car is really about the sound you get from it (unless you had supporting mods/tune, or you are FI).
The HKS hi-power and SSM sound really nice, but it's really just an opinion in the end.
If you're after gains of all kinds? Find yourself a full titanium single headerback.
But you'll pay out the a$$ for it.
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