Showing posts with label JASMA. Show all posts
Showing posts with label JASMA. Show all posts

March 29, 2009

Get Exhaust'ed

I prefer a 'box' a.k.a 'hatchback style' muffler. They preserve the 'factory look' yet they do give some bling factory (provided if it was made from stainless metal) . After browsing a few autoparts forums for quite sometime; and occasionally went to junkyard, I saw one advertisement in zth regarding this FGK muffler. Being a JASMA cert-ed muffler, this is my insurance for me to keep enjoy listening to my radio or having a peaceful conversation inside the car rather than hearing nothing else but a deep and low howling exhaust tone all the time; commonly known for a canon type muffler. Met the seller at Puchong and that friendly chaps willing to part with this muffler for a very reasonable price. I was told the muffler was taken from an Integra DC2. He was using it on his 30 years old drift-becoming 2-door Toyota KE70; until the car was transplanted with 3T-GTE (turbocharged 1.8L DOHC 8-valve, twin spark plug). This muffler was paired with a 2.3" galvanized steel pipe with no resonator/midbox. To my suprise, it wasn't loud at all. Power delivery and throttle respond increased significantly (since I still on the factory 1.3L exhaust before this), and for the first time I can feel the 'pull' mainly after the cam switchover. Yey..