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Old Nov 10, 2006 | 12:50 PM
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All mods to an N/A are minimal. You have to spend a ton of money to make decent power. With that said...do you want to be the regular ricer that just has a Fart can. I personally hate that. People are just trying to be annoying when they install crap like that. If you want to make the car faster, then do the full exhaust and intake. You can do this realtively cheaply and you will notice the difference. There is no point in just a muffler and no matter what put in a resonator and high flow cat. The cat would otherwise be a restriction and without a resonator...it sounds like ****.
 
Old Nov 10, 2006 | 12:55 PM
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All mods to an N/A are minimal. You have to spend a ton of money to make decent power. With that said...do you want to be the regular ricer that just has a Fart can. I personally hate that. People are just trying to be annoying when they install crap like that. If you want to make the car faster, then do the full exhaust and intake. You can do this realtively cheaply and you will notice the difference. There is no point in just a muffler and no matter what put in a resonator and high flow cat. The cat would otherwise be a restriction and without a resonator...it sounds like ****.
it annoys the eff out of me when people complain about fart cans. no companies make exhausts that are enormous. sure, you could complain that ebay exhausts are rice because they are big but if you actually READ the goddamn description, you'd see that they're the same size as something like the Apexi N1.

also, with an intake and and exhaust, contrary to what you said, you do not notice any gains. you will think you gained a lot of power but its all in your mind. nobody notices gains unless they are 10HP+

You can do this realtively cheaply
good exhausts aren't cheap, and neither is a good intake. with i/h/e, you're looking at about $1100+. with that, you could easily make a turbo and THEN you'll notice the gains
 
Old Nov 11, 2006 | 01:18 AM
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Seriously dont waste money putting it on piece by piece... just buy the pieces and build it up until you're ready to do it all at once...
Run 2.25 on your pipes... I got 2.5 and it is really loud in my car so i compensate with lots of dynamat... which weighs my car... 2.5 is the way to go... a muffler will not increase any kind of horsepower and even with a catback you're not going to have any more than 1 or 2 horsepower on it... get the header and hi flow cat and you'll then feel it.

Yeah i was planning on getting a Cold Air Intake System and also a Exhaust Header. Wil that give me any more gains?

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All mods to an N/A are minimal. You have to spend a ton of money to make decent power. With that said...do you want to be the regular ricer that just has a Fart can. I personally hate that. People are just trying to be annoying when they install crap like that. If you want to make the car faster, then do the full exhaust and intake. You can do this realtively cheaply and you will notice the difference. There is no point in just a muffler and no matter what put in a resonator and high flow cat. The cat would otherwise be a restriction and without a resonator...it sounds like ****.

And BTW i'm not trying to be a ricer. My car is in my sig and thats probably the only exterior mods i'm gonna do besides getting black crystal Aztella tails lights and black JDM Halo Projector Headlights. So those will be my last exterior modifications. But i'm tryna make the car faster, have more gains and performance. I got my muffler put on like a month after i got my car so i was unaware of exhaust modifications (but gotta start sumwhere) and now i'm aware and asking yall for help
 
Old Nov 15, 2006 | 06:46 AM
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If i were to get 2.25 piping and resonator (where can you buy these parts by the way?) and have that welded to my muffler will that give me more hp gains and if so how much?
 
Old Nov 15, 2006 | 08:21 AM
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Not much, MAYBE 3-5 hp, tops. Most muffler shops can fab you up the piping with a resonator for a decent price, then weld your muffler to it. It'd probably cost about the same as just getting yourself a nice Megan Racing Cat-Back though
 
Old Nov 15, 2006 | 09:14 AM
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Not much, MAYBE 3-5 hp, tops. Most muffler shops can fab you up the piping with a resonator for a decent price, then weld your muffler to it. It'd probably cost about the same as just getting yourself a nice Megan Racing Cat-Back though

how much horsepower will that gain me?
 
Old Nov 15, 2006 | 09:17 AM
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Same, but you'll have a sharp looking, quality exhaust with a great tone.
 
Old Nov 15, 2006 | 09:18 AM
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Not much, MAYBE 3-5 hp, tops. Most muffler shops can fab you up the piping with a resonator for a decent price, then weld your muffler to it. It'd probably cost about the same as just getting yourself a nice Megan Racing Cat-Back though

how much horsepower will that gain me?
he told ya
 
Old Nov 15, 2006 | 09:21 AM
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Not much, MAYBE 3-5 hp, tops. Most muffler shops can fab you up the piping with a resonator for a decent price, then weld your muffler to it. It'd probably cost about the same as just getting yourself a nice Megan Racing Cat-Back though

how much horsepower will that gain me?
he told ya

Ooops, thought he meant for adding on the 2.25 pipes to my already existing muffler and not buying a cat-back. But thanks guys for the info, CAI first and then cat-back
 
Old Nov 20, 2006 | 09:58 PM
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i say you buy a full catback system and take that muffler off and sell it on ebay !!!!!
 



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