You can get a Posi-trace Lok (Lsd), Pulleys, gears, a lighter drive shaft, lighter wheels. Do your best to lighten the car. Or you can increase the bhp by adding modifications to the engine, such as a CAI, new tune and exhaust. Powers-adders such as T/c or S/C axdd the most hp though

 

ok, now what exactly is a T/C or an S/C?

 

Turbocharger and Supercharger.

 

oh, haha...ok, i feel stupid now....lol, i should have known that...i'm not a turbo kind of guy...i'd rather go with a supercharger unless there is no real difference between them?

 

I'm going to go with an axle-back exhaust as well. I hear all this talk about a "restrictive Y pipe"...I take it that is different from a "straight through" axleback exhaust? I saw a posting on magnaflow's site that said axleback typically sees higher performance gains than dual exhaust...is this the case for both Y-pipe and "straight-through" or are they the same? maybe I'm just totally confused here....help!

 

The Y is the shape of the exhaust tubing under the car. I think Rygen said they dynoed a true dual (H or X?) and there was like a 2 RWHP gain. Not much performance but plenty of sound when you change exhaust.

 

well, i would think if the air is going straight back it would get air out faster...so i would think u could gain something there, but i dont know. i hear there is no real difference between dual or single exhaust so thats why i'm gonna stick to my single exhaust

 

I thought a Y-pipe was the pipe that took the exhaust from both manifolds-down - and combined the two pipes it into the one pipe to go to the muffler.

If you want to do the most for the least, start with a Drop-in K&N air filter, then put on the axle back exhaust.. I bet a pair of short headers would be cheaper than a cai & tuner, but the gains from all of those listed there will not be as high as the cai & tuner alone. If you plan on going the S/C route you can keep the headers. If you put on a turbo.. the headers are going to come off of the car. For me, that's waaaay down the line.

My first two, if any modifications will be a shorty antenna, and a drop in k&n... after the first of next year, I will probably do the axle back exhaust. I figure by then prices will come down.

As far as appearance modifications, I see some cool stripes, some smoked headlight lenses, a rear decklip blackout, and a chin spoiler in my future.

-pete

 

I think I see where my confusion was lying...I thought the Y pipe was the other way around, splitting into dual exhaust....DOH!

So let me see if I understand this correctly....

X-pipe = Dual exhaust
Y-Pipe = Stock Exhaust
H-Pip = ???

There's so many pieces for Exhaust it confuses the hell out of me. I want to stick with an axleback exhaust but I want it to be as efficient and performance oriented as possible. What would be the best setup?

Thanks for the help as always

~Mike

 

From what I understand from reading on here, it's going to be pretty much your decision, they will all give modest hp gains, but the sounds are all a little different for the axleback - there's a post at the top on here with sound clips of each exhaust setup - listen to them and get the one you like best.

H-pipe and X-pipe both are dual setups, just not true dual straight out the back exhaust systems, the pipe connects both exhaust pipes, otherwise you would have exhaust that sounded like you had a pissed off bumblebee under your hood.. The connection allows the six cyliders to kinda resonate, giving you the deeper sound, probably acutually ends up releasing some back pressure too, but I am not sure. I am guessing again, that the x or H is the shape of the pipe and how it connects to the exhaust pipes..

Ie. Y <---- 2 into one ..... X <--- two into two - where both exhaust pipes coming off the engine intersect with eachother --- H <---- pipe joining each side together.. I could be way off though.