I almost have everything together. The exhaust and DP is here. the exhaust sounds great with OEM DP and cat. but when I went to put the DP on it was about 2-3 inches too long. I later found out that the jdm 7's cat is about 3" shorter than ours so thats why the Apexi DP is 3" longer. Hopefully i can find someone to make the pipe today to finish it if not it will have to wait till tomarrow. Then ill upload a video. I will tell you though so far it sounded great I was very happy with it

 

okay cool cause i like im looking for one and that one is one of the few i'm thinking about.

 

I got back from the exhaust place this morning. They unded up removing the cat and making a pipe to connect the DP and cat back. I am extremely happy with the outcome. It could be just me but i deff noticed a difference from stock exhaust. Only thing is that i didnt port the wastegate large enough and now fuel cut a couple times so ill redo it tommarrow. I have to run to my moms to get the flip cam and ill post video.

 

What resonator are you running with ?

 

The ONLY other ****** that has the same exhaust as me, yes!


The aluminum exhaust **** is retarded, i don't care if it works, it's still retarded, inconel is ******* **** though.

And to all of you complaining about loud exhaust, fix your damn exhaust leaks, and buy new gaskets! You can also spray hi temp copper color gasket maker on to seal older gaskets. I swear, my **** was SO much quiter after I got a new downpipe gasket, and sprayed the sealer on my turbocharger gaskets, it was awesome.

Take a rev 2 Racing beat exhaust, it will be loud as **** too if you reuse shoddy gaskets on it.

 

I dont want to steal the thread, but how big of a muffler can you fit in the heat shields? i tried measuring it today and i got like 28"x9" plus like 4"-9" deep. im looking for the quietest mufflers that are still straight through mufflers, something hi flow and quiet. also, anyone know the size of the stock cat? my car came straight pipe and im looking to quiet it without losing too much power.

 

Here is short video of Mazda working on idle. It's very loud so I didn't rev it hard... maybe something like 3k rpm. Idle is 1300 rpm.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yvLlm9vyJyk

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VhIuhxvL_qc

just a quick video ill try to get one better later

edit: that was right after i started it this morning temp was about 45F. oh and if anyone can identify why it sounds like its missing. please chime in to help me correct it. Could it be plugs,timing off a bit, any help would be great. ill see if my gf will shoot the video so i can get a drive by clip

 

wow thats sounds good but it's kinda on the loud side but i really could careless now lol. is the apexi downpipe and cat installed in that vid?

 

its really not that loud. well it kinda is lol. yes the DP is on there. I had the muffler shop remove the cat cause i didnt want to spend more money on another one. It wasnt that loud till i put on DP and removed cat. but it sounds really really good at wot. but i gota port the WG again still have boost creep and need FCD

 

Little video, reving to 4k rpm... dead cold.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBqypqnuW50

 

ok update after a little bit of time since i put the exhaust on the car. I steamcleaned the rotors yesturday and ever since then the exhaust has goten a bit louder. Still sounds good but deff louder. I love the exhaust especially since i paired it with the gt spec DP

 

Yeah...



Needs some changes.

 

breckboarder. ever have any issues with unwraped wires that close to DP? or were you working on the car when you took the pic?

 

Yes, the problem is they were wrapped... The wrap melted off.

I re-wraped them, and cliped them further up. I also added a turbo blanket. It seems to have helped.

 

Brechboarder, got a video? very curious how that sounds, looks great!
hopefully it sounds better then the cam'ed-out rotary outboard rofl

and isnt cold reving bad for the engine because of the thermowax pellet... just saying
nothing says good morning like dry seals to a housing lol

 

The only videos I have are short and cell phone videos from a couple of years ago.

I would say Id take a new one, but she is in peaces right now.

This is right after I went big turbo and put the Haltech in. As you can tell she was running rough, pre-tunning. (Yes, this is at idle. Yes it revved on its own.) I had bought the turbo used and it was blown as well... So that explains the smoke.


A really quick in car as well. Note: the temp gauge was not hooked up at this time, so it was indeed at running temperature.


Hopefully she will be up again soon and I can take a new video with a real camera.

 

Here other exhaust that I made..









Have more pictures in my album..

 

^ how loud is that

audio clip naowz

 

FEED Sonic-r. I like the sound a lot. Not too loud but not quiet either.

 

i hate it

 

music to my ears

 

dude I was thinking the same thing, what a lame attack, someones lack of proper english when their location clearly shows they're in Europe. Actually it really doesn't matter where the **** they are, this aint no dang english forum, so **** that ****, as long as you get the point who cares? No wonder so many hate Americans!

Anyways, I also disliked the sound from that one video in post #82. It looks like Gaber does really good work tho.

 

tofuman fc3s & therotaryrocket - one word, thanks..

I don't like that exhaust sound too, there is no sound, lol

I will made other aluminum exhaust later, single pipe, like now i have made..

 

heres a vid of my old exhaust.. it was a greddy evo2 i had made. dont mind the doors lol i only did that cause i got the hinges for free and was bored one day at work.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNL1JlnFpN0

and heres what i have now

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