Exhaust Suggestion

[EMEX]

If anyone is looking for a quiet exhaust system, I would suggest getting Remus. I just got one installed this week and I love the way it sounds. Besides, the muffler alone bumps up 10 more hp and provides extra torque.
So if anyone considers getting a good, quiet exhaust, I would recomend Remus.

[Flashmn]

the muffler alone bumps up 10 more hp and provides extra torque.

You kidding?

[EMEX]

Nope, telling you, just got the muffler installed this week and defenetly atleast ten hp gian. I had an intake installed it only gives about 3-7 hp boost depending if you use overdrive or not so I didn't feel that much difference in power. As soon as I installed the remus muffler, the car startet to react like crazy when I push the gas pedal. I just tap it and I can feel myself being pulled into the seat.
But that's for an '04 corolla, I don't know how it will react on other corollas

[Flashmn]

I think you're smoking crack. You CANNOT gain 10hp from a muffler

[TekPhobia]

The placebo effect is fun...

-Tim

[EMEX]

yeah, you can
trust me bro, there's a big difference. and it's not yor regular fart pipe from kragen.

[Flashmn]

Tek, right...
and Emex, no you cant, not in any case, not even if you ran a straight pipe.

[EMEX]

depending on the car and exhaust that you have, yes you can. It's proven, my friend has a '97 accord (it was his Remus before, I got it from him used) and he tested the car before and after with his 2.0L engine, and it added those ten for him.

[Ostornadoe]

It was something other than the muffler giving him that 10 hp then. Like flashmn said, there's no way a muffler can give you 10hp on a pretty much stock corolla. Cut the muffler off completely and it still won't give you 10hp more than with the stock one. Nowif you got a whole new exhaust system, that could be giving you 10 hp more.

[Chris Corolla S]

Oh well anyway you like how it sounds that's great Recomendation noted

As for the HP gain, it's useless to debate without a dyno run before and after the modification.

[damon18]

Regardless of horsepower gains (I'd be inclined to agree with some of the other guys, EMEX) go w/o a resonator and deafen the naysayers. no worries, its all good -- save your pennies and get an s/c!

[Flashmn]

damon18, like the old saying goes "where there is noise, there is power"

[NDR008]

Hmmm, the good old argument of wheather air intakes and exhausts effect performance.... i personally think they do slightly.... i cannot find the physics to back it up, at least not for the intake part.

Flashmn, so a car runnig which just a down pipe will run equal to a full stock exhaust car?.... i donno....

What i know is on my turbo corolla, with no air filter, and with the different exhaust, i hit fuel cut, because the turbo spools higher and the ECU cuts the fuel at 12psi+ (before it ran 9.5psi....)

[Flashmn]

Flashmn, so a car runnig which just a down pipe will run equal to a full stock exhaust car?.... i donno....

Ofcourse not, and I never claimed it to run equal... Then again, turbo cars and N/A cars have different needs for exhaust pipes, a turbo car COULD run better with just the downpipe, because turbocharged cars like very free flowing exhaust.. (note could, I'm not saying it would).

And you say you're running without an airfilter? Put it on ASAP, only dumb people run without airfilters on street cars.

[NDR008]

I said how the car ran without air filter, doesn't mean i left it so to eat the air's dirft, and destroy my turbo's blades.
Well, the free flow exhaust on a turbo car effects many characteristics, the rpm and which turbo starts to spool etc.

But do you think an N/A car without exhaust and just a downpipe will run equal to a full stock exhaust one. By equal i don't mean noise wise, but figures wise, BHP, TORQUE, and the RPM at which they are achieved...