After seven and a half years of ownership, and a few appearance mods, I decided to finally do a few minor performance mods this past winter. I added an Invidia v3 exhaust, Berk test pipe, and APEXi AFC Neo. These mods provided a net gain of 20.0 hp and 11.4 torque.

I chose the Invidia based on feedback from other owners, and a few test rides in their cars. I really liked the sound, and thought that I could handle the drone.

On the way home from Wake the Dragon, my wife asked to make a stop due to a headache. She came out of the drugstore with a package of earplugs! What a trooper. She didn't ask me to get rid of the exhaust. She didn't even hint at it. But I was sharing her frustration.

Monday, I called Corsa Performance Exhaust in Berea, OH to ask if they happened to have an exhaust for the S2000 on the drawing board. I knew that they had been testing one on one of the Mid Ohio school cars, because my brother-in-law had been doing some Dyno testing for them. They invited my wife and I out for a test drive. I took about a nano-second to reply. I let my wife have the first ride, and as she was leaving and arriving back, the car had a beautiful growl. She was grinning from ear to ear as she got out of the car. My turn was just what I was hoping for. Agressive sound when you asked for it, mild sound when you cruise, and NO DRONE!

Corsa is very well known in the Corvette and Viper communities as a great high performance product that is also very civilized.

Now for the best part. They need a street-driven car to evaluate a pre-production prototype. (Oh, darn.)

What I plan to do is re-Dyno the car pre-install, again after install, and again after installation of the Berk HPC coated header that I have on order. I'm hoping that we can get this put together in time for the Southeast Supermeet in June.

I'll keep you posted.

 

Nice work Is this a single or double exhaust? Materials of construction? Diameter?

 

Ohh corsa thats good news, hopefully they will produce some gains.

 

any pics, or tiny hints to avaliablity and price, i would LOVE to have a corsa exhaust, they're a great company.

 

Very interested in hearing this one... I've been not too happy with the exhausts availible for the S. The ASM sounds great... but.. $$$$$

 

[QUOTE=tinkfist,Apr 25 2007, 05:41 AM]Nice work

 

is this gonna be an N1/invidia style, or more like a comptech/magnaflow?

 

Yep, my nephew (actually did the Dyno runs for my brother-in-law) said that it made some power. Of course, he couldn't say how much, since that info belongs to Corsa. Personally, I'd be happy even if I lost 1-2 hp with my present setup if I lost the drone.

 

Not yet, but I'll pass the info as I get it. Corsa isn't cheap, but the quality is definitely there. I can tell you that the tips on their test-mule are oval and really look nice on an AP2, But I don't know if that will be the final design or not. If it is, I'll be anxious to see how it looks on an AP1.

 

[QUOTE=AP2_S2K,Apr 25 2007, 01:25 PM]Very interested in hearing this one... I've been not too happy with the exhausts availible for the S.