I visited Hymee's late last week. Weird thing happened on the way home... I noticed a change in the exhaust note. Idle and gentle driving seemed a little different... the exhaust had a slightly deeper tone. So I revved a little harder.. the sound increased dramatically. The car didn't sound like a vacuum cleaner on steroids when I give it some gas... instead it had a more a deep, meaningful groan. Better still I could really tell how much throttle I was inducing via the accelerator... was I giving the car more gas in fifth up a hill than if I jumped down a gear to fourth and revved a little higher (but didn't push so hard on the loud pedal)?

Loud pedal... ah... there seemed to now be some meaning to the term. The car seemed to have a voice... ask it to yell and it did, but also it seemed to have developed some new words in its vocabulary. Going from hard acceleration to light acceleration would induce a little "burble" in the exhaust note... something I'd never noticed before. Rev matching on the downshift sounded more exciting... a little blip resulting in a deep "Sure!" from behind where I was sitting.

When I got home, I noticed Hymee had left something on the back seats, wrapped in a blanked. It was like a 44 gallon drum with couple of pipes coming out of the top and bottom and a rusty looking hole in the middle. Maybe this was something to do with the change in the exhaust note? So I thought I'd better take a look at the back of the car... because that's where the new sound seemed to be coming from. Hmm.. looks like the exhaust finishers had shrunk, or maybe the tail pipes were bigger... Hmm.. it was a bit hot that night... maybe they expanded in the heat? Hmm... better check the muffler... maybe in the heat it'd blown a hole or something like that.

So I stuck my head under the back of the car... first thing I noticed was a flimsy heat shield immediately below the boot... no wonder the boot gets hot with a stretched out coke can riveted to the underside of the boot... like that will do anything to stop the heat. Sniff, sniff... "Smells like burning WD40... WTF!"... A glint in my eye, like the reflection of a light from a mirror ball averted my gaze. I noticed something weird... two mirrors under the car where I could see a distorted view of my face... not much worse than usual I might add... and I thought to myself, "Must do something about that two day growth!". Wait a minute... those mirrors seemed to be joined at the middle and the connected to a weathered looking bit of pipe stretching off in the distance towards the front of the car. My heart fluttered... "No it can't be"... "Yes, it is"... I said to myself... "Oh My! A stainless steel Hymee exhaust!" I shrieked like a little girl on Christmas morning... "The sneaky bastard..." I said in a deep, manly tone as the testosterone returned. I'd let him and a mate play with the car in a garage while I kicked a ball around with a hairy bloke called Fred, or Red or Ned (or something like that) in the yard outside. Should have realised all that banging and swearing was about something.

So what can I say... the grin that resulted in muscle fatigue pain in my cheeks for months when I first bought the car has returned... my car sounds like it should have from day one. I now have a new dimension to the driving experience.... real audible feedback from the engine about what's going on in the space between the accelerator and the air intake snorkel. The tail end looks how it should with fat pipes that fill the finishers and say "sports car". I think it might be a little louder than Hymee's original... will be interesting to see if it does quieten a little over the next week or so like others have reported.

Thanks heaps Hymee... (understatement of the year)... another extremely happy customer.

 

Hey Sco
Well done on getting the exhaust....took you a while though. Could you report on the difference in sound from your exhaust (Top of the range Hymee Enhanced exhaust) to the mild steel version. I think Hymee got the mild on his 8.
I can't tell you how much I love the exhaust. It's great when you drive past an 8 and they take one look at the fat pipes and the look on their faces. Very nice.

rx88er

 

sound clip please :D

 

I have the Hymee pov pack mild steel exhaust , may upgrade to stainless after i get supercharged :D


cheers
michael

 

Sco, I can't believe it took you this long! AFAIK the stainless and mild steel versions sound the same. We posted sound clips a while back.

 

Well done sco, you'll love it. For me the sound quited down a lot after 2 weeks. Also report on data from the sCANalyser b4 and after the exhaust and tell us if there is anything interesting.