Here's what the old one looked like just before I left...car was very dirty and still SNOW on the ground



And just through the car wash to get rid of the road grime, here are the pics of the new exhaust. It's custom made by PF&E down in Detroit - it's my old stock downpipe (2.5") cut off right after the A/C pump (since I didn't want to lose that - the car is my DD in the summer and the 3" downpipe wouldn't fit through that gap with the pump there) then coupled to 3" mandrel (sp?) bent piping which is then connected to a Magnaflow 3" inlet 4" tip stock-ish looking race series muffler.





The sound is a lot louder and a lot deeper than before, especially when accelerating and off the throttle. Cuising the exhaust drones a bit, but it's not obnoxious, and I kind of like that anyway. It seems to be faster, but I'll wait for the dyno results on Thursday to see if I actually gained anything. The whole setup was pretty inexpensive for what I got ($305 for the whole thing, minus muffler which was $120).

 

Nice, what is the car's setup.

 

i liked the old one more....

 

I'm going for a sleeper look, and the old one just didn't fit the theme. I didn't like the giant can and it looked funny from the side since the can itself was so big, but the piping going into it was pretty small. This looks much more like what I had in mind for the overall look of the car

Oh, and here's the mod list:
- Garret T04E Turbo (running 11psi)
- Turbonetics Deltagate II Wastegate
- HKS SSQ BOV
- Rev-Hard FMIC
- RC Engineering 440cc injectors
- AEM fuel filter
- Hondata S200 Fuel Management tuned by PaynTech
- Custom IC piping
- Custom midpipe
- Custom downpipe
- Carbon Fiber Hood
- Tein RA coilovers
- Skunk2 front strut bar
- Skunk2 rear strut bar
- Neuspeed short shifter
- ACT SS clutch
- Toda light flywheel
- A'pexi N1 exhaust
- 16" black Rota Circuit 8's with Falken Ziex tires
- Fake Mugen shift ****
- ITR style shift boot and e-brake boot
- Red gauge lights
- AutoMeter boost gauge
- Magnacore 8.5mm plug wires
- Manual boost controller
- Momo Millenium steering wheel
- Sparco Grip pedals
- Custom painted valve cover
- Carbon fiber wire cover
- CruiseCam camera mount
- Gunmetal hood pins
- 3" turbo back exhaust by PF&E
- Magnaflow 3" inlet 4" tip race series muffler (looks like stock ITR muffler almost)

 

any lower end mods or the turbo?

 

nope...stock block and head. The boost is getting turned down a bit probably...it's a really conservative tune and I don't really push it hard...ever.

 

Sweet setup bump that ****