Took my car to Scotty's house over the weekend to get Customer dump, front pipe, and hiflow cat + Legalis R fitted. Picked it up last night. It sounds sooooo sweet!
Also fitted a new hi flow air filter (Blitz SUS Power)...thanks to Scott I now know how to pull out the airbox!
things noticed:
Fuel economy improved - since I the exhaust has less restriction, the engine doesn't work as hard to maintain cruising speed or accelerating. I noticed that I used to hover around 2200 RPM when i was doing 100kph on the freeway, where as now its about 1800 RPM.
Boost comes on earlier - the turbo used to start spooling after the 2500 RPM mark, whereas now it spools at 2000 RPM.
Car definately seems to pick up faster also.
The only downer (to me - this is my 1st turbocharged/exhaust'ed) is obviously the noise. Idling noise and full throttle sounds great, but I've still yet to get used to the constant low gumble when i'm cruising, whether it be at 60 or 100...
Scotty also noticed that the rear transfer case (?) is leaking fluids badly. More $ to spend dammit!
Overall, very happy with the results. Huge thanks to Scotty and Aaron who helped to make this happen!
BTW wheres the cheapest place to get Matic J in Melb?