gotta love the exhaust...

[synthetic]

So I was talking cars with an old friend of mine when he mentions that he's trying to get rid of his old muffler. Turns out to be a thermal r&d muffler (not sure exactly which model), one in, two out with 3" chrome tips. He claims he paid $180 for the muffler and $50 each for the tips.. how much did I pay? $50. Initially, I just liked it cause it looked like a polished up stock muffler, definitely not aggressive. I took it to a local shop here in san marcos and got it put on with a 2.5" pipe to the resonator for $125. So all in all I only paid $175.. not too shabby if you ask me. And when they started her up to pull her out of the garage it was like a four banger symphony. Deep as hell, but almost so quiet that you don't hear it, or think you don't hear it. When you push it, it just sounds nice and deep, never gets excessively loud, and decelerating just sounds pure evil. So two thumbs up for the muffler. As for performance, theres definitely a loss of torque. I stalled my car on a hill for the first time in.. well, a long time. Definitely seems to be a power gain on my butt dyno, but I'll have to wait for some highway driving to really tell. The roads are too curvy around here. If anything, it just feels like the power band has been evened out a little. Doesn't have that big pull in the lower band, but now it actually pulls in the upper band. I guess now all I need is a lighter flywheel to get that acceleration back and some cams to straighten the band out a little more and I'll be golden.

[GEO]

i don;t know if 2.5" will give you as much as the proven 10+RWHP a 3" does..

[Rockenreno]

i don;t know if 2.5" will give you as much as the proven 10+RWHP a 3" does..

that's a joke, right? I'm not very good at gathering sarcasm off the net

[SeVa-S13]

Judging by the Foldger's can haning from the bumper in his sig, I doubt it.

Different strokes I guess... =\

[Silent Drifter]

How you gonna say that when Apexi is 3inch toa 4inch can.

[Altiman94]

There will never be a 10whp gain on a 240 that isn't FI. Don't get ur hopes up.

[SeVa-S13]

I bet some good cams can net 10+ hp. Not to mention evening out the powerband.

[AZhitman]

How you gonna say that when Apexi is 3inch toa 4inch can.

I'll say it.

Anything larger than 2.5 on a n/a 240 is just ignorant. There's not much torque to begin with, and this kills it.

Some of these damn companies spew misinformation and count on people to be dumb enough to believe it....It's insulting - You guys know cars better than their marketing department does!

synthetic hit the nail on the head - He noticed some hi-RPM power increases, but the off-the-line performance suffers.

[Silent Drifter]

Id rather sacrifice low end considering we have more of that than top end which we have very little.

[whiterps13]

Id rather sacrifice low end considering we have more of that than top end which we have very little.

i totally agree