My new exhaust
i have this catback on my car, and its great, my only beef is that its really really really freakin quiet, but its kinda cool cuase i can hear the turbo and engine WAY over the exhaust note which is kinda nice.
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Played around with it a bit yesterday and today and there's a little more top end. Once it gets into the 3000 to 4000 RPM range it really likes to go. I personally really like the sound, when I want it to be loud I can just downshift and when I want it to be quiet (like when a girl is in the car) I can just upshift.
I switched over from the greddy 1 to the magnaflow. Both sound very similar and are quiet. I added a test-pipe on and amazingly there was no sound difference at all.. I couldnt beleive it. Turbo's really are the best mufflers
. My only beef with the greddy is that it melts your rear lip.
. My only beef with the greddy is that it melts your rear lip.
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It hasn't melted my rear lip, but I have an ES so there's not much to melt. So far the most satisfying part of the exhaust has been my brother-in-laws response. I left the exhaust at his house since he was going to give me a hand installing/taking it down to the shop since he knows the guys (hence the cheap install price) and after seeing the size of the muffler his immediate response was "its a fart exhaust". He tried to pursuade me to buy a different muffler or sell the exhaust and go custom but I assured him it would sound good. Even as I got it installed he kept on saying "you're telling me that huge thing isn't a fart can?". After we started it up though he started to like it. I went blasting by him on the way home so he could hear what it was like at WOT and he commented that it sounded like a rally car. Nothing beats having a truck/domestic guy say your import sounds good.
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Nope, it doesn't get high pitched at all and isn't ungodly loud. That was my number one concern about getting an exhaust was whether I'd sound like a damn ricer, but so far I've had nothing but compliments about the sound.
where are you in Calgary? i dont know if ive met you. have you been to any Lancernation meets? if not id like to hear that, i want a cat back and want to know the best price/ sound of the exhaust i get, right now i have the Apex'i "fart can" but it sounds amazing. let me know id like to see the car, wednesdays nights @7 at kal tire chinook if you dont already know.
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Well I go the U of C so unfortunately right now with finals right around the corner I'm just a tad busy. If you can wait a few weeks though I can come to one of the meets and show you how it looks and sounds.


