HKS vs. GREADY, Exhaust!!! Options

[PaulGT]

My muffler is going south on me...the back is starting to rust out and i am just going to spring for a cat back system. now i know gready sp is highly rated among this site but im leary of the sound, i dont want to sound like every other rice burner around my town. I just want a deep tone that backfires allot with out having the "FWAAAP" sound. in other words i dont want it to sound like a civic. Now about the hks system. there is nothing on it under our parts database so what is it all about? Hows it look? and sound? If anyone has any sound bites or pics of eighter exhaust i would really appricate it!!! Thanks for you help guys!
Paul

[west_minist]

First, you can use any muffler that can fit.

Customise jobs are not bad unless to expensive. It happens here every day.

In stock form, the car is running lean.

When you change your Air filter, you add more air to the system. Sometime, depending on how the intake is setup, you can lose low end torque since you have less air pressure at low rpm at the throttle.

For the exhaust, the same thing apply, except you call it Back Pressure.

At low rpm, due to vavle over lap, you have less volumetric pressure of good air fuel mixture in the combustion when using a straight throught muffler.

You can increase your A/F ratio to reduce this lost to some point.

Also, you cannot have both worlds unless you do some other stuff. But even then, NA, you will have to make the choice on what you want.

This post has been edited by west_minist: Feb 1, 2003 - 10:50 PM