foxman

Definitely louder...and I think lower...

http://indy-rx.com/videos/srcatvid.wmv

truemagellen

woah you should put a warning up for that part when you do the drive by, I'm deaf now

mysql101

interesting clip. What exhaust did you say you had? For some reason my borla sounds a lot deeper than yours, but maybe it's the video camera.

http://tyrannical.org/rx8/borla_6k.wmv

I've been thinking about a midpipe myself.

IZoomZoomI

i think thats stock exhaust... just very clean

doesn't sound a lot deeper, maybe the vid doesn't do it justice. Sounds like a bunch of bees buzzing...

mysql101

oh, man. If that is the stock exhaust, i'm not going to do a midpipe. The stock exhaust is super quiet, and his setup in the video was definately anything but.

IZoomZoomI

was it that loud? didn't seem so...

mysql101

i think his camera doesn't pick up the sound very well. the stock exhaust is very quiet, so with the amount of noise coming from his car in this video, i can only assume an aftermarket exhaust would be way too loud with the midpipe/high flow cat.

truemagellen

hamilton you have the navigation system? question is, is that Borla video yours? sounds great! I love how the exhaust pipe condenses with moisture inbetween revvings

mysql101

Yeah, far as I know I have the navigation, unless my damn dealer lied to me and drew a picture of a navigation unit on my dash.

anything hosted on tyrannical.org is mine

foxman

It was my first attempt at digital video and yeah the rest of exhaust is stock. AVI, MPEG and WMV files seem to produce different sound and there are quite a few quality settings for sound and video, the camera is mono, so limiting. I will say it sounds fairly different in the flesh. I am still working to try and recreate something that seems realistic.

mysql101

I like Sony's HC digital video camera line. I think I paid around $350 for the one i have now (HC20). The sound is pretty accurate with it, and the video is decent. Sony has this "usb streaming" crap, but it garbles the video and sound due to the lack of bandwidth. With the firewire cable, you can get full quality digital captures without any fuss. I also had a Sony TRV unit (slightly larger body size than the HC20, but basically the same video and sound quality) which costs $200-250 (I'm going by memory, so not an exact number, but pretty close to that range)

I used to have an older video camera that cost around $700, but trying to get the output digital would be more hassle than it's worth given how cheap the new digital ones are.

rx8wannahave

I don't like the sound...I'm happy your happy, but I don't like how it sounds too much.

I like the Borla & mmmm...dang it I forgot the other name?

foxman

I am shopping for cat backs because I want it to be lower.

Ned M

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Sound bytes aside, what performance difference do you see with the high flow cat and stock (?) cat back, and thanks.

foxman

SR Motorsports claims 10 HP or something like that and I think you need a less restrictive cat back to take full advantage of it which is why I want to get that plus I can probably shave a total of 30lbs off the weight with the right setup. The main thing I noticed is it seems to pull better in 4th gear from around 3K-4K rpm or so. There is no resonator and the cat is very small compared to stock and weighs some 15 lbs less.