hey i know its illegal... but jus wondering... how does it sound? mean or nasty? dunno... if someone has a soundfile that they can give or something plz post it...

 

With a stock exhaust and header, you wont notice it. With a nice 2.5 inch collector header, it sounds slightly raspy compared to stock, but not noticeable.

 

not exactly... i'm running straight Supersprint exhaust and its verrrry looooud

 

I think he means straight test pipe.....

 

either or , no matter what he means the sound level will go up quite a bit , i have ran it a couple diff combos and all still louder then with resonators. or cat.
its worth the hp though.

 

The smell is the worst part

 

I'm running DC JDM 4:1 w/ 2.5" testpipe & stock ITR exhaust = quiet as a ****! (But pretty f'n loud on VTEC, otherwise, just like stock)!


[Modified by GM2000ITR, 9:16 AM 7/2/2002]

 

It's raspy, borderline shitty. Makes good power though.

 

Mine doesn't sound raspy at all (definitely not deep sounding either), but, hey, "results may vary" - I guess

 

I hope you have a black ITR if you plan on running a straight pipe

 

results must vary a bunch. i have dc jdm, test pipe and tanabe RM. My bumper looks nothing like that even after running the car hard for a long time. I have 12.5 cr but my car is tuned so it may not be running as rich as the car in the pic above, thats crazy

 

ITR was never meant to have a catalytic converter on it. Period. I have a 2.25 test-pipe in mine so I can re-install my stock cat once a year for smog tests. If you dont like the smell of an ITR without a cat on it. Then sell your ITR and take up knitting.


[Modified by H-PIMP, 3:58 PM 7/2/2002]

 

i have straight with mugen exhust, and you can't actully hear the sound from the exhust.. mostly from engine.

 

That pretty much sums it up!

 

Sounds very hard core and all but I'll bet you didn't not live in LA in the '70s or '80s. Hell, even now it is not great airwise.

I'll bet the likelihood that someone will remove their cat is inversely proportional to their age.

 

remove your cat on your R and come back and tell us what you think , I agree with hpimp. . . much better hp for almost no money.

 

but for real man, it sound prefect for me with mugen on, but with 5zigen...it's loud..but i still like that sound. For just bolts ons, straight pipe won't give u crazy power, but after i build my motor with JUNs, dyno shows 185, but after straight pipe it's 200 whp, it gave me straight 15 whp, all i can say it's those cams love straight pipe!

 

exactly, thats alot of power for a $25.00 mod.
wouldnt you say?
mine is really loud when it hits vtec. other than that its moderate.

 

So nothing at all changed between the two runs? If so, would suspect that something was wrong with your cat.

 

you dont have to worry about CEL's with a str8 pipe do you?