...Welds?

 

There is a clamp that keeps the muffler to the pipe not a weld. A weld would be bad here, you would have a hard time adjusting the fit and look of the exhaust. There is a stainless steel ring that goes around the muffler that keeps the hanger in place that attaches to the factory muffler mount.

 

I don't think that JIC makes an 80mm exhaust for our car -- they make a universal 80mm muffler, so if you are going to buy the muffler (which can range between $250-$600 depending on options) then you should have no problem with fitment, since you will have to have custom piping made.

 

Yeah I've since fount that out :/ I just got the 60mm piping and 90mm tip. The guy at vividracing.com said his friend had a high horsepower S2000 and that going with 3" would be overkill for my application. *shrugs*

 

I have the exact same setup. I purchased the car with it and I'm currently going to remove and replace with a dual Ti tip invidia. I had to change it due to a fix it ticket I got for loud exhaust.

I will say that when I had mine with the test pipe the car was insanely LOUD. I noticed that It felt faster and had better pickup. Now with my Cat in place it's lost some of it's power, but it's almost as loud. I will miss the power but I won't miss the noise and the constant smell of exhaust on me and the car when I have the top down.

 

At the last dyno we did as a group my car was the loudest there
We had S/Charged S2000s and turbos as well as a 2JZ twin turbo Toyota PU
and out of all that were there my N/A S2000 rang the db meter at 126db






My car

 

ummm, you will still probably get fix it tickets w/ the invidia...

 

There all loud but the JIC sounds good and loud

 

I hope not. I'm not planning on using the invidia resonator, i'll be using the Stock one.

 

What kind of hp/tqr were you putting down on the dyno?
126db