I have been running a turbo on the civic with the tiny, restrictive factory exhaust...........until now!!!
I just had a local shop set me up with a full stainless 3" system, the cat is HISTORY, no resonator either. The muffler is a 3" Flowmaster Deltaflow 40 Stainless. I finished it with a 3.5" polished stainless angle-cut rolled-edge tip. It looks great, not ricey at all, and the sound.....holy mother of......
It is uber-deep, uber-aggressive, and fairly loud as well. To me, it is perfect. I wanted something that would really flow and allow my turbo to do its job better. I think we can say MISSION ACCOMPLISHED!

 

nice...how bout some sound clips

 

Thanks, those are in the works.

 

any power difference?

 

any pics? c'mon, you gotta post pics. I'd love to see the setup. sounds awesome.

 

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I second that. I would really like to know cos I have the factory crap on there at the mo and I think it is really restricting the airflow big time. i am thinking of going for a 3" straight through as well...

Pics, sound clips....

 

this thread is useless without pics!

 

Pics are coming, I just picked the car up yesterday evening jeez!

 

I can relate I just picked up a 3" mandrel system myself. No cat, or resinator and a Apexi N1 muffler. I made the 3" down pipe myself and that thing is LOUD......
It screams at 12psi wide open

 

The demand for pics has been fulfilled! Here you go guys! Comments are welcome!

 

Since getting the 3" vs the stock exhaust what is the difference in your spool up times?
Looks good

 

Thanks!
I spool more boost than before, was hitting 8psi with the Joe P MBC, now I hit 9psi just from going to 3". The spool rpm for 9psi is about 3700 rpms. I was getting full boost, 8psi, with the stock exhaust by about 4700 rpm.

 

tempting me to get a 3" now. I have a 2.5" turbo back (well 2.5" downpipe, 2.5" testpipe and 2.5" catback) with a magnaflow muffler and it sounds decent. I can just imagine the power difference and spoolup difference between stock vs 3". when I went from just my stock cat with the 2.5" exhaust to a 2.5" testpipe... my spoolup got a lot better and it held more boost. Pre-testpipe it would only hold about 5psi... with the testpipe it held all 6.5psi nicely. man. love the car (same turbo and manifold as me )

 

Haha, thanks Marc. Yeah, the difference in spool-up is amazing! I should have done this sooner!

 

Up

 

Hmmmm, this way please!

 

Anyone else have any comments? I would like to hear them. Thanks.