Originally Posted by psu_doug
4 Things I need before I buy an exhaust
1. Price - would need to be under $500 For under 500.00 you are looking at only a cat back, a full dual exhaust from the manis back will never get that cheap.
2. Sound - low muscle car gurgle on idle and not much drone when driving 65 Maybe a Corsa...
3. Fitment - needs to bolt on directly (I had an invidia exhaust on my eclipse GT and it went on in about 10 min with no modifications - and sounded amazing) It's not going to take you any less then a few hours to drop the stock exhaust.
4. Look/Performance - Look as stock as possible and some performance gain is important With a Full Dual set-up you may gain 10 HP on the Base/Limited, and that's being generous. Just not much to be had in the way of perf gains.
A catback is deffinately an option though. Maybe we'll go that way first.