wickedywick

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Love it, has a nice quiet deep tone just the way I wanted it. When I started the car after the install I thought something was wrong because it was such a drastic decrease in sound haha.

Some background info on my setups. Single turbo with half bridge. I ran a straight through mid-pipe with a PFS exhaust = rattled the picture frames inside the house

Then I purchased the SMB metalic substrate converter with muffler. Still very loud with the PFS exhaust. The SMB cat clogged after a couple of months so I decided to gut the catalytic converter and purchase the Apexi Noir.

gracer7-rx7

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Looking forward to video.
Odd that the SMB cat clogged. I had that same midpipe for a number of years and thousands of miles w/o a problem.

wickedywick

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I am def on the rich side and around 500hp so that may be the short lived cat?

K-Tune

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I love the way the Noir looks and sounds. Even with an unresonated midpipe the volume was perfectly fine. I only got rid of mine because I was chasing my tail on a lack of top-end power issue. I got a light one day and shone it into the muffler...it isn't a straight through design, which is why it's so quiet....but not the best for high flow. The muffler wasn't my issue at all and I kind of miss that exhaust...

matty

Yeah I am not too sure on those cats. That's why I sold it. People absolutely love it though. And you can't deny that it's a work of art.

Sorry to hear that you ended up gutting it.

MK3Brent

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Looks like a painted version of my tanabe. Looks nice.

Kinda reminds me of the Vibrant brand stealth units. Always wanted to make an exhaust with one of their mufflers.

armans

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I was contemplating for a long time about either getting this exhaust or tanabe medallion touring. For some reason I assumed (not sure if this is actually the case) this might be more of a restrictive exhaust than the tanabe so got the latter one. Although I liked the stealth look of Noir better.

GoodfellaFD3S

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It's worth noting that my brother had scored a brand new Apex'i GT spec catback a while back with the straight through 3.75 inch piping for his SSM base model FD. He had it powder coated black and it came out looking baller

silverTRD

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the exhaust looks and sounds nice. it does look restrictive tho, what size is the piping?

wickedywick

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apexi seems to go from 75mm to 80mm near the flange. the rest of the exhaust system is 76mm downpipe and midpipe

wowzer

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I have the same exhaust and agree that it is so quiet I tend to forget I have an aftermarket exhaust. It doesn't draw attention and annoy neighbors so that's a plus. I am switching it out soon and will be putting mine up for sale if anyone is looking.

GoodfellaFD3S

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^Moving to an Apex'i N1 Dual ?