A bit better exhaust note - Fabspeed?

[Cloudsurfer]

Mike-

I have the "new," current FabSpeed system on my car, and yes, it is based off the 987 system,, albeit with different midpipes. I am running mine with TurboWerx headers and the performance and sound is fantastic. The current system is, indeed, resonance free.

I like the exhaust tips you have on your car, and it would be somewhat of a shame to lose them, but you are not going to get an appreciable change in exhaust tone by just deleting the secondary cats.

If you're willing to do some cutting of the heat shielding of the rear bumper, you can install 987 headers and the full 987 exhaust on a 986, which in hindsight, I wish I had done, as I do plan on doing a 3.6 swap at some point. With the FabSpeed, at least, if you do want to do this later, you can just exchange midpipes.

Hope that helps.

Patrick

[jmatta]

Mike, no offense to Patrick, but the secondary cat bypass pipes do indeed create a much nicer, deeper tone and a real growl under acceleration. I have Fabspeed bypass pipes on my '02 S and the sound is amazing. I've also upgraded to a PSE (Pedro Sport Exhaust) that adds the dual external pipes; this has given me the ultimate sound with absolutely zero resonance. One of these days I'll post a sound file.

[chitowndad]

What is that in the picture (stock muffler off the 02 S or PSE)? Sorry for being ignorant I'm just learning about the exhaust options.

My favorite sound that I heard was the Fabspeed on a 911 - that was a nice sound!

-Steve

[ekam]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjNXH0gKCg4