Those of you that had the patiences to make it through my long winded <a href="https://www.rx8club.com/showthread.php?t=129426">introduction</a> thread already have a bit of my back story, and to add to that slightly while introducing a somewhat less known product to the community I've back with this thread. I've run several searches but have come up with little to no information on this product.

I ran a similar product on my FD before it blew up and I was extremely satisfied with the over all quality and further satisfied with the noise it produced. Because the FD is a prominent enough car as it is, and being that I reside in a cop infested area I wanted the noise level to remain minimum on daily drives while not restricting flow, and that is exactly what SMB promised with their product. I was so satisfied that I placed an order with Grant at SMB about a week after I took delivery of the car. I won't go into too much detail with the exhaust but I would like to mention that the cat uses something SMB calls a "metallic substrate cat" which allows for greater flow than a standard high flow cat while efficiently cleaning the exhaust gases. This was proven to me in the form of much quicker boost spool after the addition of the cat on my FD. While that's not an issue here, it's certainly welcomed.

I should note that I do not in any shape or form work for SMB, I'm not even on the same half of the world.

pics:

the catalytic converter:

Entire mid section




Close up of "metallic substrate cat"



Exhaust:


single muffler:


close up of tips:



And.. here's a link to SMB's rx8 page: http://www.smb.net.au/fullexhaustsystems-mazdarx8.htm


I'm having the exhaust installed in about week and I intend to get a before/after dyno comparisons just for ***** and giggles really, since we all know these don't really bring much power home for the money

 

Wish the tips would stay that shiny. Looks nice.

 

Wow. Sounds and looks good. Cant wati to see the Dyno.

Oh zerobio, You have to clean them with stainless cleaner