Megan Racing Exhaust Intall and Review!!
 

Well recently I purchased the new Megan Racing Drift Spec exhaust. I ordered the exhaust through e-autosports here on he forum. They had amazing customer service and were quick to get back to me on any and all of my questions. And i recieved it in just four days, super fast shipping!!!! Anyone that wants amazing customer service should really hit these guys up www.e-autosports.com P.S. They beat everyone on price!!!! :happyanim:


Well i recieved it today so of course i went ahead and slapped that bad boy on. Let me first of say that this is the best sounding exhaust i have heard on a FR-S yet!!!!!!!!!!!!! You get nothing but that boxer engine rumble that is just pure sex. There is no rasp or rattle or spits or sputters. Hands down i am in love with this exhaust tone. Also the car has a little more pep in its step! If i slam this thing into second it will spin the tires pretty good now, before i would just get a little chirp.


On to the the downside of this exhaust..... :(
Well i did a lot of looking and never really found any information on this exhaust but i wanted to give it a shot. So i guess i see myself as somewhat of a guinea pig. The first downside was that the Megan Racing exhaust came with new bolts to use to bolt up to the cat, well the bolts were to big i would have to drill out the catalytic converter side to get them to fit. So i ended up using the old bolts. Not to big of a deal but why not have them fit, I mean come on!!!

Now the most concerning thing to me..... The exhaust clearance!!! My car is only lowered just a hair, and there is almost no clearance. It hangs a whopping 2.5 inches above the ground!!!!!! :thumbdown: If i had coilovers on my car i would be dragging through this exhaust. I did send a email to MeganRacing and i am looking forward to see what they have to say about the issue. Hoping they have a good answer/solution for me cause i cant see anyone wanting this exhaust if it hangs down that low.

Well on to the pictures!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!:coolpics:


Here are a few shots of the install process!!

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A few before and afters!!


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Shot of clearance issue!!!:paddle:
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Update!!!!!

Good news!! I heard from MeganRacing today!!! I was very pleased with how fast they got back to me on the issue. They were polite and sincere!
Bad news they say this is NORMAL...... I can not see why anyone would design an exhaust to hang so low! I can not imagine backing down a steep driveway or lord help me if i slammed my car on coilovers. This exhaust is a hazard to itself and to the car! So my final thoughts on this exhaust...... The sound is absolutely amazing, but i DO NOT recommend that anyone purchases this exhaust until/if they ever do anything about this clearance issue. I would hate to see someone buy this exhaust and harm their car, and it would only be a matter of time till the exhaust was smashed up and flattened therefore killing the flow!!!!

P.S. I will try and get a video up ASAP!

in this for the vid! post soon!

That sucker hangs low.

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is the piping size same as the stock one ?

That clearance is unacceptable. It shouldn't hang that low. Just a matter of time before you mess it up by impact damage. Look at the YouTube video. . That one seems to fit better

I agree 100%!! Mine doesn't fit anything like that one, I'm just hoping MeganRacing agrees. I'm really hoping I hear from them tomorrow!

It has 2.5" piping.

Good news!! I heard from MeganRacing today!!! I was very pleased with how fast they got back to me on the issue. They were polite and sincere!
Bad news they say this is NORMAL...... I can not see why anyone would design an exhaust to hang so low! I can not imagine backing down a steep driveway or lord help me if i slammed my car on coilovers. This exhaust is a hazard to itself and to the car! So my final thoughts on this exhaust...... The sound is absolutely amazing, but i DO NOT recommend that anyone purchases this exhaust until/if they ever do anything about this clearance issue. I would hate to see someone buy this exhaust and harm their car, and it would only be a matter of time till the exhaust was smashed up and flattened therefore killing the flow!!!!

That sucks. Could pay a local muffler shop to cut the weld at the flange and rotate it for you so its not that low.

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Why don't you really test their customer service and return it? With the pipe hanging that low you'll be replacing it in due time.

That is my exact plan!!! Already went and talked to the muffler shop and everything. I am also going to drop the back of the canister down so that it has a little more of an upward angle to it. Just wish i didn't have to put more money into an exhaust i have already paid for!

How much did it cost?

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I have never been a fan of megan racing product. Although everything they have is significantly cheaper than similar alternatives but you get what you pay for. Hope everything sorts out!

It appears to be $450 from the shop he ordered it from.

OP is extremely abusive with his punctuation.

I've always had good luck with Megan exhausts in the past. Great sound, nice performance, and nice quality.. overall a fantastic value. BUT. I wouldn't keep that exhaust. I would return it for sure.

Still for only $450.. if it cost another $100 to have a shop cut and reweld in two places it probably still winds up being a nice value.

I had bad experience with Megan's exhaust. I would stay away from it.

After MeganRacing said that this was normal, I did send them an email back saying that I would probably be taking this exhaust off my car and that i was going to spread the word of this clearance issue. I also stated that i hope others bring this to their attention and that they make a change to the design in the future. They then responded with a few things for me to do to try and get it to hang higher. Nothing that worked but I can say i am very impressed with their customer service, although i would be even more impressed if they told me they would pay to have it fixed locally for me!


That is true that you get what you pay for, but there are not many single exit exhaust this style on the market so i took a shot at it. Live and learn.




I do agree once i get the clearance issue fixed i still wont have that much money into the exhaust and i will have something i am very happy with.

It really is strange how low the pipe is, and even stranger that they confirmed that is normal. Like you said in an earlier post, it's like the flange was welded at the wrong angle or something.

I like your idea of cutting off the flange & rotating the unit until the pipe is raised/tucked under and then re-welding the flange. But you really shouldn't have to do that with a brand new exhaust.

Got this email from MeganRacing today. I am just not quite sure what they are referring to or what they are trying to say...

Greetings Max,


Attached are photos from the final stages of development on this car. Please note the potential clearance issues of bringing the exhaust path routing further upwards and maintaining the final angle of the muffler at the rear.

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I think they are saying that they tried to have that low hanging portion of the exhaust be tucked up higher, but in doing so, while keep the same exit angle, it caused fitment issues with the chassis.

I think a simple solution would be just have the exhaust exit on the driver side, then people would argue the car is biased in weight towards the left side.

Thats what I got out of it anyway.

Haha I think that is a nice way of saying "see! If we designed this properly the muffler wouldn't have that sick exit angle, and thusly, would no longer be 'drift spec' "

I usually think megan's products are alright for the price, but in this case the design is clearly flawed.

man I'd love to see a video to hear the sound!fitment issues aside if it sounds good i got cash in hand

Any progress on the video?

And that's why I love my buddy club spec II, and yes I know the tip doesn't look beautiful :) still ain't bad

not to be a douche but I'm really curious to see a dyno and a sound clip now as I'm not sure how a catback would give the car nothing but a like boxer rumble sound when the rumble comes from the header being unequal

Also I think the wheel spinning is all in your head cause a catback does not make that much power

Hopefully you got the low hanging issue fixed tho cause that deff looks like scrape city

I have a couple clips on my phone, but I don't have a camera of my own. Might splurge and buy a gopro next week.

I would think that difference has to do with having the single pipe. Even though it's still an equal length header having a single pipe makes the sound a little more direct. I love the sound of single exhausts on EL boxer engines, it's not completely smooth but still doesn't sound like a fucked up idle (i.e. UEL header).

If Megan doesnt do anything to solve this issue that you have, they're already losing potenial customers. who is going to buy this and get it fixed at local shop? what a great way to sell products

Maybe it's because he reduced a good amount of weight from the rear end.

Nope. Maybe it was just the time of the day. It's easier to spin the tires when the weather is colder (night) compared to when it is warmer (day).

Ha so that's completely wrong? No chance it could be that? Trust me, I know the weather effects everything. But when I reduced weight from my old car with just a catback, it would spin the tires more, no matter the weather.

Well I wasn't saying that that was completely wrong, I only said that that may not be it. I can squeal tires all night long, but when day comes, I can barely brake traction. You really think that little weight would have such an impact?

I didn't say that it would blow the tires all the way through second gear, it just gives the tire and actual spin now instead of just a chirp. But we will just go with I am an idiot for even saying anything, this is evidently an impossible feat that must have happened due to some act of god. Everyday I begin to dislike this forum more and more.

I asked a question. Chill the heck down. If it was sarcasm, I would have said, "this is sarcasm". Since when did text show tone... And after a while, everyone begins to hate every forum. That's just the way it goes.

I think we all just need to hug it out. Then we'll see where it goes from there.

:thumbup: Remember everyone, :respekt:

I didn't say you did either was just trying to make sense that changing to a ctaback made it much easier to break traction as I have a full headerback and didn't find the same deal until after I got my tune.

This is a forum where we share knowledge of course there will be debates or questions raised about how true claims are but don't you want that? I mean if people didn't question things I would of bought a 14hp+ light weight pulley from AP right now.

Besides our butt dynos are linked to our excitement and we all tend to believe what we have is good. I felt my airaid was great but testing showed that it wasn't.

Thanks for providing a possible reason that does make sense.


No need to get butt hurt guys just wanted more info didn't mean to start a shit storm

holy crap. i was seriously debating on this exhaust but i'm pretty sure it would just be scraping along the floor since i'm on coilovers. hopefully they fix this issue or another company makes a better design because theres surely a somewhat good amount of interest in single exit exhausts

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