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Old 12-03-01, 07:14 AM
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Exhaust Has To Go

Ive only had my 90 GXL for a week or two and I LOVE the car, but I am getting sick of the junky exhaust. I knew the car had bad exhaust when I bought it, and I actually did that on purpose because I would be replacing it anyway.

It has the stock mazda exhaust and after 130 K its pretty worn out. I havent gotten the car on a lift yet to check out the entire exhaust so I dont know exactly which sections are junk, but I am thinking i might as well just do the whole system.

i like the racing beat exhaust and they say it is a lot less restrictive than the stock system but I think the tips could be a bit bigger. On Friday I checked out NCSublime's 91 NA with pacesetter headers, bonez mid race pipe w/out cat and then apex'i n1 dual catback. His exhaust sounds bad ***!!

Anyway I would like to buy new exhaust for my rx-7 within a month or so, depending on when I sell my integra, but what kind of exhaust can I get for like $500-600? (probably nothing much but tell me what you think)
Old 12-03-01, 08:20 AM
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Your 500-600 would probably get you the Apexi N'1 single and maybe dual (I havn't checked it out lately). I have one comming next spring along with a bonez high flow cat system which is going to retail about 900 dollars (maybe I am looking in the wrong place). I didn't want to continue the stupid dual exaust because it really makes no sense on an FD. Oh by the way I am running a 89 GTU N/A that has the same problem with the exaust. I think it is close to the manifold however, I too haven't had it on my lift. If you find out something else besides the bonez high flow and single Apexi N'1 than I would like to know as well.
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You car get the Rotary Performance Cat-Back for like $395 I think. I'm not sure how good it is, but they say it uses straight through mufflers. I'm looking at getting either that one or the Apexi N1 Dual.
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mine was cheap. get a racing beat header (big boost in power!) and have a shop custom bend a 3" pipe back to a universal 3" muffler. i got a dynomax ultra flow. its great and loud!! it cost about $500 total. installed, everything.

when i 1st got it, i was doing a little drift for my friends at the coffee house and i managed to set of EVERY car alarm there great fun!
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You can get the single N1 new for $150 from this guy who is selling his online. his e-mail is nick_c703@yahoo. He still has it as of two days ago! The single is 115 mm in diameter. I was gonna buy it for a bud of mine, but he wants a N1 Dual like me! MInes's coming in about two weeks!!!
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I have a 91 n/a w/a ful RB setup. Header, Presilencer and Cat Back. That set up runs real close to a grand. Awesome sound and a great noticable increase in power. However you want to spen around 500-600. I would sugest going with the presilencer and cat back, and just get a down pipe from RB that will fit between the Presilencer and stock manifold.

Cat Back $655
Y Pipe $170
R L Mufflers $398
D Pipe 3 $90

S youre looking at about close to $800 including SH. A header costs $187. Thats double the price for the Down Pipe, but worth the money for freeing up that last bit of restriction and the HP gain.
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If cost is an issue, the kit from Mazdatrix is a box with four pieces of mandrel bent thick wall tube and two flanges. I had to enlarge the picture of the RB header to see where to mark the pieces for cutting and assembly. (The RB assembled and plated header is worth the extra $100, but I was a little short.) I pulled the old system, header and all, and drove very gently to the muffler shop, except for one time I was behind a guy on a Harley. I just had to punch the gas to watch his head spin around - small mistake - I melted the plastic straps on the wheelhouse. The shop cut & welded the header, ran two pipes back to the middle of the space where the main cat was, and installed two $20 "turbo" presilencers, and finished with two pipes to the original mufflers. That’s where my $200 budget ran out. I talked with shop about going straight through. Their answer was when other RX-7’s went straight to the mufflers, they usually came back for presilencers later.
The results: Sound level only slightly higher than stock. No loss in low end torque. Nice growl under load. Not dramatic, but noticeable power gain at 5-7k. I can tell the stock mufflers are there at 7-8k. I really need to open up the intake to match the exhaust, then maybe some straight through mufflers.
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