I heard that there was someone in the Lower Mainland that7 builds a dual kit... any idea who does that? please post if you do.

Much Respect,
Ozzius Atreides

 

please please please dont get a flowmaster exhaust..those belong on camaro's and pony's

 

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weak

 

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Flowmaster is actually a good company that makes cars go fast, thats all that should matter. I personally like the only chrome to be the tips and not the whole canister, it doesn't make the car look cheap and ricey

 

FlowMaster should really be called SoundMaster since their engineering is much more related to sound than to performance. Their "tuning" theories are kinda correct - but only for specially-designed applications with no cats and with the muffler at a specific position in the exhaust system. Their sound tuning is their strong suit, but IMO their mufflers mounted on 4 cylinder cars sound terrible - too ricey and poppy. To me, four cylinder engines sound best with "packed" aftermarket mufflers like the DynoMax or Magnaflow mufflers; their packing material better filters their "unnatural" frequencies. You'll never get the car to sound like a V-8 anyway - too few firing pulses.

All that said, endless independent dyno testing shows very little difference in performance between similar aftermarket mufflers. A recent issue of Fast Fords and Whatever tested about 25 different mufflers on the same car, same day. On a car with over 420 rwhp, the power spread was only about 5 hp, and most were even closer together. The margin of error on the dyno was 3-5 hp, so there was no statistical difference between any of them. This included FlowMaster, DynoMax, Spintech, Magnaflow, Warlock and a bunch of others.

On the S2000 the mufflers should be even closer in performance since the mufflers are at the end of the exhaust system. Here the volume of exhaust gas is much lower as is gas velocity, so the muffler has even less restriction. Bottom line, chose your muffler based on sound, not on performance.

 

Lone Star, you forget that the stock exhaust system weighs a ton and you can cut weight with an aftermarket exhaust system.

 

Uh, no, I didn't forget; it was never at issue. My post never said that you shouldn't use an aftermarket system, just that most aftermarket mufflers give equal performance.

 

its up to him what he wants but IMO i heard on one a GS-R a while back and ohhhh god those sound nasty on imports.

 

You sure you're not looking for a Magnaflow exhaust system?