Exhaust question...

[Bigwig]

any recommendations on what kinda of exhaust would sound good with an Injen CAI...???

 

[orangezoom]

Man I just put my Magnus motorsports exhaust on and it sounds GREAT

 

[Bigwig]

how much was your exhaust? know if the Apex Motorports at http://www.apexr1.com/mazdaspeed.html is worth the money...any recommendations??

 

[RyanJayG]

I know many people hate it for whatever reason (bosal), but I constantly get compliments on my exhaust note. then again, it does remove the 2nd cat.

I have no problems with any of my welds, and if I did, I have stainless wire just sitting around collecting dust, waiting to be used.

 

[Striker187]

well what kind of a sound are you going for? mellow, powerful, loud, soft, raspy, ricey ? the most important part will be whether you want a loud or soft exhaust note. that'll help limit your choices.

 

[EvilMSP]

well what kind of a sound are you going for? mellow, powerful, loud, soft, raspy, ricey ? the most important part will be whether you want a loud or soft exhaust note. that'll help limit your choices.

How would you get a nice powerfull sounding, not ricey, nice rumble. But of course a little highs here and there...cause common..it's a ricer .

 

[FrozenMazda]

I'm curious about the different exhausts out there too. I want something to free up the restriction, but I'm still wanting to keep my stock tip or muffler (I want a stock look to coincide with the sleeper theme I'm trying to go for).Thinking the best thing for that is a high-flow cat and thinner 2.5" piping all the way back to the muffler.

But then again, I've never really dealt with an exhaust before so I don't even know if that's possible.

 

[SpicyRay]

i dont know, i want something thats medium volume with a "rumble", maybe a few pops here and there. i heard a borla on a V6 grand prix, it was surprisingly good, twas no V8, but it wasnt bad, wouldnt mind that sound, also one time i heard a WRX with a deep growl to it, exhaust tip was huge, i wondered if it was running unmuffled.

 

[Striker187]

wilsman - if you want that kind of a sound, maybe a blitz nurspec exhaust. i've heard one on a wrx and granted it will sound nothing like it on our car but it sounds quite nice. i've heard people say it has a slight rasp. it's also quite loud. and come to think of it, a borla might do the trick. you could try researching that too. i wish there was a site like www.blowoffvalves.com that had exhaust recordings. at least it could give people an idea of what different exhausts sound like.

frozen - if you wanna keep the stock look, you'll have to get a muffler that you can weld a tip on to. maybe a magnaflow 2.5" inlet/outlet and weld a similar tip on to it. or just keep the stock piping and get an exhaust cutout. or an electric cutout even. www.quicktimeperformance.com/qtec.htm

 

[EvilMSP]

striker - would the borla exhaust be a full exhaust? Or would I just buy the muffler from them? Also you are full of good knowledge so I gotta ask is our "down pipe" just a pipe that cuts out the cats?

 

[Striker187]

hahahaha, thanks for the compliment i just read a lot well whadaya know....it looks like borla makes a catback for the 2001 2.0L protege. that should fit our car. maybe some slight adjustments to it but nothing a competent muffler shop couldn't handle.

our "downpipe"? i'm gonna assume you mean our stock dp. it's not a pipe that cuts out the cats, it's the pipe that comes off the s-bend off the turbo. it then goes right to the cats. so the basic flow of the exhausts gases is : exhaust manifold, turbo, s-pipe, dp, cats, muffler. now some downpipes replace the cats with just a straight pipe. so maybe that's what you mean.

oh yeah, i just had a thought. fujitsubo exhausts.....they sound mean as s***. i dunno if they sell just their mufflers....probably not. but it might be worth a shot looking around. i'm also unfamiliar with injen's SES and espelir's exhaust notes. so there may be some other possibilites. veilside sells just their mufflers i believe....that'd be pretty tite. they're supposed to be really loud. i wonder if top secret sells their mufflers separate as well....hmmm.......

 

[EvilMSP]

Thanks the helo is greatly appreciated as usual. I just kept hearing "downpipe downpipe" and remembered a thread that took out the cats, so I wasn't sure if that was it. Sounds cool that the downpipe costs little but adds breat performance per dollar.

 

[Striker187]

yeah, i just wish spool or ion would sell their 2.5" dp by itself. i forget whose it was that bolts up straight to the turbo and not to the s-pipe but i want that one maybe it was both......it's late. i'm forgetting.

 

[EvilMSP]

Is this what you are talking about?

http://www.apexr1.com./apmado.html

 

[Striker187]

that dp bolts up to the s-pipe. it's ion's that bolts up directly to the turbo. here's the link i was looking for. scroll down a bit and you'll see the pic.

http://www.msprotege.com/vbb230/showthread.php?s=&threadid=26077&highlight=apex+downpipe

even though the pic is of magnus's dp-back exhaust, all the dp's released bolt up to that s-pipe. ion's goes straight to the turbo. i'm not sure about spool's but judging from the pic on their website, i'm guessing theirs bolts up to the s-pipe as well.

 

[EvilMSP]

Cool, thanks again.

Didn't mean to thread jack. Back to the topic of making an awsome sound for an Injen CAI.

 

[Striker187]

when my muffler finally gets here (again!!!), i'll have it installed right away and i'll be sure to post pics and vids as soon as possible. since i have an injen, might be a place to start