since after market exhaust doesn't offer that much hp gain, mainly just for look and sound and some weight reduction. so i figure i make my own to get the look and sound i want and reduce some weight at the same time.

the whole thing cost me $110 and half a day's work, that's if you have all the tools and do it yourself.
$50 for the aSpec 2.5" stainless oval muffler from ebay.
$60 for the 2.5" stainless U-bend.

the whole thing weigh 21.8 lbs. not sure how much the stock weigh but this exhaust considerably lighter. the sound is pretty good also, not as loud as i thought it would be. just a nice deep tone. i wanted to reduce the bends in the pipes but didn't want to much angle on the muffler, i just like a little angle. the tip is larger than what i like but i don't think it looks too bad.

here are some pics and vid.

<FONT COLOR="red">*** OUTSIDE VID ***</FONT>

<FONT COLOR="red">*** IN CAR VID, AUTOX ***</FONT>

 

looks decent
have you dyno'ed it for hp gains?

 

Props on how cheap you made it for.

Don't like the sound though.

 

i actually think it sounds pretty good, especially at the auto X event

 

DIY. The single muffler looks better than the factory 2 muffler setup.

 

it came out nice.

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by rice4life &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">since after market exhaust doesn't offer that much hp gain, mainly just for look and sound and some weight reduction. so i figure i make my own to get the look and sound i want and reduce some weight at the same time.

the whole thing cost me $110 and half a day's work, that's if you have all the tools and do it yourself.
$50 for the aSpec 2.5" stainless oval muffler from ebay.
$60 for the 2.5" stainless U-bend.

the whole thing weigh 21.8 lbs. not sure how much the stock weigh but this exhaust considerably lighter. the sound is pretty good also, not as loud as i thought it would be. just a nice deep tone. i wanted to reduce the bends in the pipes but didn't want to much angle on the muffler, i just like a little angle. the tip is larger than what i like but i don't think it looks too bad.
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ohh i forgot to post before... actually the T1R 70mm single exhaust nets around 15 HP which is def a nice gain, but it also costs $950. For the price yours looks sick as hell and def sounds nice too... ohh and one more thing, the stock exhaust weighs around 60 lbs, an aftermarket can be as light as 7 (amuse R1 titanium)... but all in all yours looks good, sounds good and for the price you cant beat it

Self satisfaction FTW!!!

 

Good job bro. beats paying someone else a grip to do it.

 

i like it, its sounds like quiet rice

beats my (VERY BORED; joke) diy exhaust

http://vids.myspace.com/index....26048


haha

mad props for yours though it looks NIICE

 

Good work.

 

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No doubt It sounds almost like my Arc titan used too....

 

sounds liek my Dual did... i would have personally removed the res. and the "ANTI DRONE" tube while you were at it

 

not to shabby.

 

it stick out a lil bit too much though...

 

Cant hear the sound on the work comp. , it looks good.

 

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let me help you out...

zrroooooooooooooom BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH zrooooooooooooooooooooooooom BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

more or less.....

 

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zrroooooooooooooom BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH zrooooooooooooooooooooooooom BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

more or less..... </TD></TR></TABLE>

haha spot on... spot on

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by WowOzYouRock &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">it stick out a lil bit too much though... </TD></TR></TABLE> Yeah, I was looking at it this evening and it does stick out about 1.0" - 1.5" too much, but it still looks good. Thai's a little gay dude anyway.

 

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hey, i told you i was going to trim the tip a little.

 

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i whole point of doing this exhaust is to keep the stock resonator to keep the noise down. if i was going to remove the res, i would have made a whole cat back. i don't think the stock res will cause that much power loss.

 

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i whole point of doing this exhaust is to keep the stock resonator to keep the noise down. if i was going to remove the res, i would have made a whole cat back. i don't think the stock res will cause that much power loss. </TD></TR></TABLE>

understandable, however i dont think it helped with keeping the noise down.. i had a TP on mine with the duals and was light on noise down low and BAM in vtec.. just like yours...

 

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understandable, however i dont think it helped with keeping the noise down.. i had a TP on mine with the duals and was light on noise down low and BAM in vtec.. just like yours... </TD></TR></TABLE>

well, i'm not going to do a test pipe but i might do a high flow cat later on.
anyone know how much HP is expected from a high flow cat? if it's only a couple hp, i'm not even going to bother.

 

Even the test pipe is only a couple hps.

 

i was thinkin about gettnig the same muffler but the 3 inch one