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A few more pics i found from the build process.

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That ARK exhaust is interesting, haven't seen something quite like that. Sounds good on youtube lol.

Any cabin drone at cruising speeds?

 

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None at all. I'm sure it's a little louder than stock. But you can have a conversation in the car cruising around without having to raise your voice. It doesn't get loud at all until you get on it.

Seems like it's comparable to something like the invidia q300 then, in volume.

Yup ARK exhaust were a big deal back in the GR/GV days. Probably the best looking exhaust for the GR hatch honestly. Makes the rear of the car look so mean. They're pricey but sound pretty good. I like that they use a helmholtz style resonator/chamber.

I always liked the look of the nissan *Z exhausts with the angled mufflers, so mean looking.
The helmholtz bit is pretty cool, I assume that's how they manage drone.

Youtube makes these exhausts sound soooo deep and bassy, love it.
Then again, youtube makes the stock exhaust of my Street Triple 675R sound like complete garbage. In person, the factory triumph exhaust actually sounds pretty amazing, for a factory exhaust.

It was $1700-1800 including shipping right from Ark. I think you can get Cobbs full titanium exhaust for that. In an attempt to make my neighbors not hate me since I leave for work at 5:30 am usually I went out of my way to make the car as quiet as I could. Custom resonated mid pipe, the ark cat back and added a gesi cat to the custom downpipe.

It's definitely one of the better looking exhausts for these cars though.

niiiice. personally, I don't care for the rasp and drone that you get from full titanium. especially for the price. Love the weight reduction but still..

Whole car looks good though, by the way. awesome setup.


Unrelated to exhaust, why the NA intake? I know the runners are a slightly different length, and something else was different...
Custom resonated midpipe eh? Nice! how much did that run you, if you don't mind my asking? I've heard that custom fabricating stuff isn't actually as expensive as it sounds.

 

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The NA intake manifold has a much larger plenum than the stock one does. They didn't really have room for a decent sized plenum while retaining the factory tmic. Larger plenums generally flow better at higher rpms. I went with the short runner version which bolts up to stock/aftermarket tgv's so i'm not sure how much of a difference in runner length they are.

I don't recall the exact pricing off hand. It was in the neighborhood of $300-400 i think. We went with the largest resonator they could get.

Nice! yeah, plenum was the word I couldn't think of.
Is there a tradeoff on lower rpm perf then, with the NA mani?


Edit: would also love to see any videos of the car, if you have them. Curious to see how it sounds/pulls!