Just to let you guys know....

Racing Beat made 10 of these DR Midpipes and they're all sold out. More of them are going into production....and you have pre-order them (which is what I did).

It's nice to live in Socal....so I can just drive up to Racing Beat and pick mine up when it's finished.

 

How much has shipping been costing to the midwest or eastern half of the US?

 

Total with S&H to Cleveland (just down the street from you) was $375.

I may have a chance to put it on this weekend. I'll probably bring it up to the pre-GrandAm event up at Montrose Westside Mazda on Saturday if I don't already have it installed. Anyone going to the Rolex event the weekend after at MidOhio is more than welcome to check it out on the car.

 

Shall I bring some jackstands Sat. Ryan? If we are going to hang out with all these people we might as well put them to work installing your midpipe. :P

 

I actually thought about it but I'm not so sure jack stands keep me from being liable if something happens. And i dont know if a mazda dealership is tge best place to do somethibg that could void my warranty. Still would be fun to have a grand am team install my Midpipe.

 

We can just go borrow a service bay Im sure. :P

 

placed my order last night and just received a phone call from RacingBeat and they told me they're making 20 more and will be ready within the week or two but I can wait :D

 

Finally able to open mine up.

The DR RB Midpipe weighs in at just under 18lbs with bubble wrap. No idea how that compares to other midpipes (OEM cat or otherwise).

Here's pics. Click for high res.

 

its sooo pretty

 

Looks like it only has one bung (which is no big deal to me).
Definitely looks better than the MazSport, but we'll see how it sounds
That's all I care about!

 

I can't wait to hear this thing, hurry up!

 

according to your wii the midpipe is overweight.

 

I made it 2 feet tall and 2 years old. Apparantly 18lbs with a 'wide' center of gravity effs up the body mass of a 2' 2yr old something fierce.

 

hahah thats a awesome way to weigh something though. now we need videos!!!

 

Those are totally new power pulse pre silencers for sure.

 

I finally received the midpipe today... all shiny. I can't get a precise weight but I'm sure it's not 20 pounds, it seems to be pretty light in the 10ish maybe. Anyway, way much lighter than the stock cat.



Now the only this missing the the car to put on top of it, whichshould arrive next week. My Mazdaspeed bumber was hit by a curb!!! Damn curb And just to help me, Mazda Canada raised the price of the bumper from 1500$ to 2620$... nonsense.

 

It looks so nice!

i want to hear that thing right now!!

 

I will make a video next week. Meanwhile I'm crying looking at my midpipe in my empty garage

 

Here is the sound test I did few minutes ago.

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I asked my 8 years old daughter to help me out with this so forgive her for the shaky camera.

The smell is not bad at all, the smoke is almost non existant and the sound is almost stock, just maybe 2db louder with a deeper tone.

So far I love it, and it was really easy to install.

I can't wait to test it on the road.

 

And here some pictures of the mid pipe once installed

The midpipe


This view shows the clearance of the front brace.


And here hte clearance of the rear brace.


Just perfect enginering

 

sounds like my mazsport

that fitment is beautiful, wish i could say the same about the mazsport

 

I was thinking the same thing

 

hot hot hot

 

Any CEL's? Do you think you would shoot flames if you didn't lean it out? I have the ms exhaust also... I'm def. buying this midpipe, sounds great, thank you

 

is there any reason to get it dual resonated other than to quiet it down?

pgrothe-are you shooting flames and popping all the time?