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^ I'm curious about this piece as well. Let us know if you decide to get it.
I have the ballade sequential header, seems fine to me. Looks a little different than their old design with the spring hooks and in material look though but so far so good.
Exhausts like the Medalion Touring will be a another several week wait unless you get on the order or backorder list as they seem to go out the door from the retailers as soon as the container(s) arrive at the port. The S2000 market is small and the exhaust market for them is even smaller. Retailers don't keep several in the back room for the occasional sale. They only buy what they expect they can sell quickly.
Read the message post dates of the "In Stock Now! posts -- I swear many are years old. The forum should not permit this but...
Do you have any experience with them and their exhaust products?
They came on the scene during the time I didn't own a S2000.
It's pretty tempting to order since ASM doesn't make a single anymore.
This seems quiet and pretty nice design
So many horror stories from them and their services that I have stayed away and I am glad I stayed away. Go looking through how they handle issues and oversell people on things. They claim to engineer products when they are just coping other companies designs or slapping a sticker on something. Even if the exhaust is decent I would want to support them. Plus I have an asm single already.
Originally Posted by MintBolster
Yep all vendors seem to basically not have a firm estimate on when they will get a new batch of tanabe medallions. Every time I follow up the delay just gets extended as well... For example back in January, Evasive told me they would be in stock by April. I then followed up in April, and the new ETA was June...
I wish vendors here gave a F still, but unfortunately they have moved on to newer and more profitable platforms / forums..
If it seems like I am frustrated, you bet! never did I think it would be so hard to obtain a set of mufflers lol... Anyways. Good luck, OP, and if you find one, would love to hear where you got it from!
Global shipping is a complete and total mess right now for pretty much every industry. Vendors can give estimates and try there best but ultimately they are powerless to just magically fix the complete mess that is ongoing and will continue for a while. Japan’s boarders are still closed and not all shipping methods are available. Ports are backlogged getting through shipments and that extends to materials manufacturers need to make the product they are going to ship to you. Saying vendors don’t give an f right now is beyond harsh and really not accounting for the situation we are currently living in. They want to sell you an exhaust and whatever else you want to buy but they can’t make things appear out of thin air. It’s been super frustrating right now with things the way they are but there isn’t much to do besides wait it out. It’s crazy that a couple years ago you could literally order this exhaust off Amazon.
Give us a review after a couple of weeks with the exhaust. I don't know if any changes have been made in the past 5 years or if the sound is different from the one I installed 6 years ago. These smoke badly when first installed until the manufacturing oils burn out. Recommend parking nose first in the garage and opening the door before starting. Noise subdues as the system heats up. Seems they all do but I've no clue why.
If your car has the OEM or even an older aftermarket exhaust crawl under the car tonight and spray the bolts with PB Blaster or similar. Do it every day until the exhaust arrives. Mine came off fairly easily. We had to remove the cat and exhaust together on a buddy's car and even then couldn't separate the cat from the exhaust -- good old Cleveland weather. (We installed high flow cats.)
Put the car on jackstands, remove the rear wheels (for access), spray the hangers with WD40, and disconnect from the rear hangers forward. If you drop the OE exhaust at the cat the tips will swing up and get trapped by the rear bumper -- lesson learned. Leave all the bolts finger tight until everything is centered in the rear bumper and not hitting anything underneath.
Other than the top bolt at the cat being very hard to remove this is all pretty simple and maybe a hour of your time.
A short search should find the video the Mighty Car Mods lads did a few years ago "in their Mum's driveway."
Give us a review after a couple of weeks with the exhaust. I don't know if any changes have been made in the past 5 years or if the sound is different from the one I installed 6 years ago. These smoke badly when first installed until the manufacturing oils burn out. Recommend parking nose first in the garage and opening the door before starting. Noise subdues as the system heats up. Seems they all do but I've no clue why.
If your car has the OEM or even an older aftermarket exhaust crawl under the car tonight and spray the bolts with PB Blaster or similar. Do it every day until the exhaust arrives. Mine came off fairly easily. We had to remove the cat and exhaust together on a buddy's car and even then couldn't separate the cat from the exhaust -- good old Cleveland weather. (We installed high flow cats.)
Put the car on jackstands, remove the rear wheels (for access), spray the hangers with WD40, and disconnect from the rear hangers forward. If you drop the OE exhaust at the cat the tips will swing up and get trapped by the rear bumper -- lesson learned. Leave all the bolts finger tight until everything is centered in the rear bumper and not hitting anything underneath.
Other than the top bolt at the cat being very hard to remove this is all pretty simple and maybe a hour of your time.
A short search should find the video the Mighty Car Mods lads did a few years ago "in their Mum's driveway."
-- Chuck
Thanks so much for the tips !!
Does the Tanabe come with a new gasket for the joint at the cat ?
I appreciate what you are saying about the rusty bolts, but my car has never been in the salt and only rarely in the rain, so I'm hoping they won't be much of a battle (fingers crossed).
3 hole gasket for the cat should be included. My car was never in salt that I'm aware of either. Didn't try it without the PB Blaster though so can't say they would have come off easily without it.
