Decided to purchase an exhaust - 986 Forum - The Community for Porsche Boxster & Cayman Owners

yellowboxster01 · 09-08-2007, 08:12 AM

After wanting one since the second week of ownership, I decided I'm going to buy an aftermarket exhaust. I've been reading a lot of threads about the different setups. I'll probably go ahead and buy the Fabspeed bypass pipes while I'm at it. Now to my concerns.

I've read about a lot of different setups busting the mount, whether it be the weld breaks off the muffler or the bracket itself bending. I'm reluctant to buy one of those $500 mufflers on ebay for that very reason. Here are a few I've been considering...

Borla- seems to have the strongest mounting and I really like the look and sound. I know a guy who is sponsored by Borla and can get me one for $690 shipped brand new.
GHL but, again it seems the mounting is weak.
Fabspeed
Stebro

Can anyone comment on the mounting on any of these exhaust setups? Is it isolated incidents and I just seem to stumble on them? Anyone one one of these and have a video?

Any other suggestions on another exhaust?

blinkwatt · 09-08-2007, 08:32 AM

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Originally Posted by yellowboxster01

Can anyone comment on the mounting on any of these exhaust setups? Is it isolated incidents and I just seem to stumble on them? Anyone one one of these and have a video?

I can comment on the ebay/delubozparts/Top Speed exhaust. I was a little concerned with the mounting on the exhaust at first as well. Then exhaust came and it weighed 1/2 as much as the OEM one. I was able to get it to hang by just the mounting bracket w/o and issue. Now it's also connected to the 'u' pipes so there isn't much to worry about.

Don't worry too much,if you buy it from Che he offers a three year warranty in case the mounting brackets break.

easyc · 09-08-2007, 08:40 AM

One of my GHL mounts to the vibration bar broke, but that was because it was installed under stress... Ive also installed one of the GHL look a likes from maxspeed that mounts identically like CHE's and there is no mounting problems AS long as its installed without stress... the same goes for all of them. Here is a video of my GHL on my 986S... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SkhaXGBT5LE

zackwatt · 09-08-2007, 09:12 AM

I think I'm gonna get the Headers and Exhaust from Maxspeed Motorsports. Its only a $1049.00 bucks for both. Can't beat that deal! You might want to look into that.

blinkwatt · 09-08-2007, 09:57 AM

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Originally Posted by zackwatt

I think I'm gonna get the Headers and Exhaust from Maxspeed Motorsports. Its only a $1049.00 bucks for both. Can't beat that deal! You might want to look into that.

Can't beat that deal!..........they admit that they have CEL problems with their header design on the e-gas engines.

Their solution....clearing the CEL. What the hell type of fix is that?

zackwatt · 09-08-2007, 10:19 AM

Hold on there buddy....

From what I understand, The CEL comes on because the OEM setup has two O2 sensors at the end of the headers, one before the cat and one after. The Maxspeed headers only have a bung for one 02 sensor each. So, now you have one O2 sensor on each side that is "inoperative" or not receiving any reading and that will throw a CEL.

According to Maxspeed the permanent fix is:

"....you will need to relocate the 2nd O2 sensor right after the 2nd set of cats that also involves extending the wiring on the O2 sensors. This is the permanent solution. We can help you with this solution just ask we have the O2 weld sensor bungs to relocate."

This sounds like a good fix to me