It was around this time I shifted to performance for a second and wanted to become more loud.
I upgraded to American Racing Headers
Catless Long System with H-Pipe since I already had the MRT V2 Axle-Back on the car. I wanted to keep it a free flow exhaust because I had a feeling I would be boosting later so that would help with not making back end pressure.
My friend let me borrow his tools and lift so I was able to do this install myself and save some money. Of course it didn’t go as smoothly as I’d hoped since the ARH long system came up too short and didn’t meet the MRT pipes.
Red lines are where the ARH long system ends and green lines are where MRT axle back begins.
The temporary solution was to cut a section of stock piping and increase the OD of it on the ARH side to temporarily join the two systems together. Not to mention the ARH pipes are 0.25" larger so I would’ve had to blow the diameter out of the MRT a little anyway to make the pipes fit together if they reached one another. In retrospect this oversight saved me from modifying the MRT exhaust and allowed me to resell it later on.
Eventually, I also bought a
Borla ATAK Cat-Back Exhaust with X-Pipe from my friend. Although I only intended to use the Axle-Back of the ATAK, I figured having the X-Pipe was good incase I ever wanted to switch them out. I got the dual tips powdercoated matte black.
I took my car to ARH since my father knows the owner Nick and his son Lou from the racing circuit. They installed the section of pipe that had been missing from before to connect the new Borla ATAK axle-back.
The sound difference was night and day. It’s actually deafening sometimes in a tunnel or garage where the exhaust bounces and echoes. I can hear some drone while I’m driving but I don’t mind it. Being Catless is going to prove challenging for inspection since they’re required in NY to pass emissions so we’ll see how that goes when the time comes.