Originally Posted by bmccann101

here are some "facts" about all the above.

you must indeed pay to play.

If you spend 200 bucks on your exhaust, real HFCs w the stock exhaust will not get you laughed at and will sound just as you said, like the stock yet louder and more aggressive.

Then when you can afford exhaust later, you will already have good parts in line farther up the system.

Megan pipes will break at the tabs. Even some high dollar HFCs do this..
They mount to your trasnmission as well... please take a moment to search, google, or get under the car to take a look. This area receives "alot" of twist stress, and gets quite hot as well.

Test Pipes dont do enuff over HFCs IMO to warrant your car smelling like a gas can and polluting the living hell out of the air. Unless you do your own installs, this route is not financially reasonable if you have to smog test the car every few years.

Run test pipes if you have some serious engine mods and its truly a bottle neck to your performance. They have resontated testpipes to "help" w the drone, but the rasp will still always be there.

I doubt you will find HFCs for the 200 bucks tho.

Bottom line about the 2000 dollar exhaust comments.. and I feel you, really I do... im just trying to be honest and speak for others as well... but..


and undertand this please. ....
NONE OF US WANT TO SPEND 2K ON EXHAUST! .. BUT WE DO.. AND ITS BECAUSE THERE ARE TONS OF REASONS. IF WE COULD MOD THIS CAR CHEAPER, WE'D ALL DO IT.. BUT IT CANT BE DONE RIGHT FOR CHEAP.

and by " right" I mean in a performance productive, safe, cost effective over the long run, tasteful way.

theres my 25 cents.

Thats all they meant.

Originally Posted by 350zRiot

3) muffler (the end of the exhaust system)