So I went to Spugen's shop and installed my brand new T1R exhaust for my S2000.

Here is how the exhaust looks brand new:

(Note: First 3 pictures are not mine)




After a hour drive home I inspected my exhaust:
(Excuse the 1st few pictures, they were with my camera)




After wiping stuff off with a towel...


Damn, what a buzzkill. The exhaust seemed to have plenty of clearance between the tip and the bumper. WTH happened?! After inspecting the exhaust, I noticed there were only two hangers on the right side. The exhaust can easily swing to the right with a sharp turn or jolt. When swinging to the right, the exhaust touches the rear valence. (I fixed the problem by securing the hangers).

Oh man, I was so pissed, so I looked in my garage and pulled out this:


PLEASE DO NOT REPLY YET, STILL POSTING

 

After polishing the black off a bit, I noticed the blue/purple titanium color was faded. I didn't like the entire blue tip anyways and I preferred something like this: (the original T1R style tip)



30 minutes later:


Other side:


2 hours later:





I was pleased with the results. I'm sure I could do better with more work, but it was pretty hot so I decided to call it a day. I will have to sand down and work on the bumper another day. The tip should change color a bit, since it is titanium. Hopefully the "Ti Burned" look will look more gradual then. If not, I'll have to work on it.

FWIW, Here's the camera phone, my new Motorola V600:

 

imo, the tip looked better before

 

Quick Review:

1. Sounds great, not too loud. No droning on the freeways!
2. I like the looks.
3. Fitment design sucks.


If anyone is curious to see what the entire car looks like, you can check my sig.

Here's one picture:


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I didn't take a picture, but after cleaning off the melted rubber residue, it was not blue underneath and very splotchy. I could not live with that.


Modified by JMS JT at 1:09 PM 7/17/2004

 

very nice.. how much for the t1r if u dont mind me askin

 

looks good! before and after!

oh yea, any gains? diff?

 

****** sweet

 

awww thats cute

 

reminds me of a conversation we had a while back when we both came up with that idea, glad it actually worked. looks sick man

 

Looks damn good......I use that polish on my exhaust too

 

Solid camera too.

I think ill continue on my path to getting a Spugen Ti Single...or a Ti Tip Double.

 

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I didn't take a picture, but after cleaning off the melted rubber residue, it was not blue underneath and very splotchy. I could not live with that.
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I bet you're not gonna be able to sleep because of the melted plastic

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by diM` &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">very nice.. how much for the t1r if u dont mind me askin</TD></TR></TABLE>

Roughly 630 shipped.

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oh yea, any gains? diff?</TD></TR></TABLE>

Thanks bro. Diff? Not really, I had an exhaust right before this one.

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I think ill continue on my path to getting a Spugen Ti Single...or a Ti Tip Double. </TD></TR></TABLE>

Which? The camera phone? Or Camera? Other than the pic with the STI in it, the camera I used was my ancient 2mp Sony. It's time to upgrade. I had the S. Ti single before this.

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I'm over it. I'm going to sand it down and see how it looks.

 

Fan of the THANK GOD single exhaust.

Not a fan of the un-cocked mounting.

Style of muffler is sweet though.

 

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Not a fan of the un-cocked mounting.

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"un-cocked"???........go read another super street

 

hmm, i always thought s2ks were dual exhaust

guess i'm dumb after all

 

nice s2k

 

looks good

 

nice...i like the older style tip too...it was shorter and it was only blue at the end of the tip....

 

looks dope john
I like the older tip style as well, without the blue on the whole tip. Good job

 

sweet exhaust system

 

What the hell does superstreet have to do with this ? I havent even bought an SCC mag in years. No time, but I do like to read them.

No style to a straight muffler IMO. Is that so wrong ? Appearance does matter to some extent.

 

you took those pics with your phone?

 

bling bling!

 

T1R sucks btw. AJ Power's customer service.

hella old bump.