Anyone in Portland/ SW washing have a Perrin 3" catback I can hear?
 

Hello! I am currently saving up some money to buy a Perrin 3" catback.

Would like to hear it in person. Preferably on a stock car.

If you have a AVO turbo or a Jackson Racing supercharger that will be cool as I do plan to go FI later on and would like to plan ahead with my purchases. Currently leaning towards the AVO turbo so that why I would like to hear the 3" first.

Will treat you to a coffee of your choice :)


Thanks :)

Edit: missed a couple letters in the title *SW Washington

I have a 3" but I'm also running a tomei header and nameless fp/op

How loud is it with the tomei header and nameless fp/op? I watched your dyno video it sounds like its pretty loud.

I have a Perrin 3" with a JDL UEL header and 2.5" overripe and frontpipe. It's loud when I want it to be but pretty quiet when you're just driving normal.

http://https://www.instagram.com/p/376-OsMhwr/
@thehapaone

Not sure if it was the same setup in the video, but, hope that helps!

It sound nice, but that pretty loud... I leave to work at 6 am, my neighbors would hate me haha

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I can get out without much ruckus...that video was leaving pretty hard its much less raspy and less in your face with normal driving but still pretty loud

https://youtu.be/VldYcZOlDDA

With a FT86 speed factory catted UEL header, 2.5 perrin op/fp 3' cbe

https://youtu.be/FsgTSOq_bXk


With a tomei uncatted uel header. Rest is the same.

I had the 3" one before trading it to hapaone for his 2.5 resonated.

THere was too much drone in the cabin for my taste. Otherwise, it was loud and sounded bloody awesome!

AM running catless but has a resonator also in the FP/OP combo from Ultimate Racing (highly recommended) that helped a bunch in the drone and quieting it down overall a little bit.

I'd agree^

I traded my 3" to Chen for his 2.5" because even with stock header the drone of the 3" was a bit much.

The 2.5" with a catless header, nameless resonated + catted fp/op isn't bad at all.

Do you plan to turbo/supercharge the car in the future? Would the 3 inch only benefit the turbo and not the supercharger right?

I had the 3" resonated on my car, with stock everything else, and it sounded perfect to me, and I didn't get any drone. I added a catted 2.5" front pipe later on, and it was a little louder, but still no drone. I turned off the cold start, and that helped a lot! Did you guys have the non resonated?

LOUD!
 

Most catbacks will not be too loud. But if you don't want a neighbor hating your early morning cold start, do not change header or front pipe.

I have a Tomei header, Perrin OP, Berk FP and TRD Catback... it's REALLY loud. My neighbors hate my car but at least they know that I actually race this car so it has a purpose.

Stick to catback only if you can. And BTW, you don't need a 3" when a 2.5" will give you the same performance if your car is NA.

Actually, VitViper from Vituned was able to demonstrate that there was 3-4Hp to be gained form going form the 2.5 to 3 inch resonated perrin catbacks even in NA.

As far as whether it would help with turbo versus supercharger, someone who's more knowledgable than me would need to answer that. For sure it would help with turbo and the noise levels come down noticeably.
Not sure about super charging however.

Nope. Mine was a resonated 3 inch. I was running a catted nameless FP/OP combo before running the catless but resonated FP/OP from Ultimate racing.

The nameless was noticeably louder as well. The resonator in the UR FP/OP really does work. Plus losing the cat, I picked up 2-3 more HP almost across the board compared to the nameless.

Well worth looking into the HKS resonated FP as an alternative to the Ultimate Racing too.

Does he have dyno sheets for that? I'd love to see them! I get a lot of people that don't believe us when we say it does make more power on an NA car.

That's crazy! Mine didn't drone at all with the PERRIN 2.5 front pipe. I could have even had it a little louder!

i have no drone on my perrin 3inch FP/CBE but there is a touch of rasp around 3-4k rpm with a tomei UEL and perrin OP.

tbh, i miss my old setup of tomei UEL, perrin OP, 2.5 inch Ark resonated catless fp and 2.5 inch perrin resonated cbe.

i'd be tempted to trade my FP/CBE for a full 2.5 inch perrin or some mixture of perrin cbe and HKS or JDL front pipes.

Never heard of "turning off the cold start" could you explain what you did exactly?

Not crazy. just reporting what I experienced. I had it on my car for almost a month before I couldn't take it anymore.

Maybe we just hear differently, which isn't entirely out of the realm of possibility.

I'm like 80% sure it's something you can do with a tune.

cold start is to heat up the cats...if you have no cats this can be tuned out and essentially makes the car not have the obsurdly loud cold start that comes with the car from the factory

It is something that you have to do with a tune, there's a huge thread about it here: http://www.ft86club.com/forums/showthread.php?t=55676

I used the EcuTEK to do this, it was actually really easy to do. Unfortunately it's not something that we normally include in our PERRIN maps.

It basically takes out the timing retard when it's cold, which will make the cats take a little longer to warm up, but won't cause any issues. I ran it like this on my car for a couple years without problems, and there's a lot of other guys that have ran it for longer.