Installed a Tanabe Concept G exhaust
 

Big thumbs up for this exhaust. Nicely built and very lightweight. Manufacturer says 22lbs, but I weighed it at just over 19lbs. Sounds pretty good, not overly obnoxious. Cheap and easy to install, hard to beat IMO!

EDIT: Oh, and also plugged the empty exhaust hole with a cover from ft86speedfactory.

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Neat garage, cute daughter, nice video.......:thumbsup:


humfrz

Thanks! this is actually just what i needed to convince me to get this over the ft86sf single exit

-Greg

@justinco

I like your videos and I've subscribed to your channel. Keep at it man!

How much louder would you say this exhaust is over stock w/ header?

It is a good bit louder. I will have a new video on Monday with more in car driving sound.

I'm running mine with the tanabe overpipe & berk front pipe w/ cat, it sounds great. A little bit of drone but not comparable to when I was a running a uncatted header lol.

Are you running stock header? At my last race this weekend, a friend of mine told me my setup was loud AF lol. I don't think it is that bad, but I guess standing behind the car when I launch it is loud :D

Can confirm single exit "cannon" style exhausts are all very loud. My Greddy RS is very similar to the tanabe concept G but 3in so of course louder. the catback alone is very loud outside the car and with my headers it's very very loud. But you don't even know loud until you run it with headers and front pipe. Literally sounds like a legitimate race car screaming down the road haha :burnrubber:

Stock header yes lol, I ran an uncatted header with the tanabe (front pipe & over pipe were stock) and it was VERY loud.

If I were to change my setup again, I'd do uncatted (or maybe catted) header with dual resonated front pipe. But I'm happy with the sound and improved throttle response as it stands.

What I'm currently running as you quoted, I don't think its too loud or obnoxious to daily. If you're happy with your setup and power, I'd just do a dual resonated front pipe to calm stuff down and eliminate most drone. The drone was too much for @ 70mph with an uncatted header.

Yea, if anything that is what I will do, just add another resonator. The one on the Tanabe front pipe is pretty short.

I'll see how loud it is on the sound meters at the next National race in a couple weeks ;)

Love your daughter's positive energy and willingness to help. Future gearhead? :)

Thanks, she loves it! Keeps asking me to start her own YouTube channel for her, but I don't think I'm quite ready for that :D

She and my son just finished their junior autocross orientations and also got their junior racing licenses at local indoor karting (a'la K1).

I had this exhaust and loved it, until I got a catless UEL. Then it got crazy loud lol. Great exhaust otherwise, just a downside of single exits

Yea, my TRD exhaust on my FRS was much quieter and sounded awesome. This was with the same exact header and other parts. Too bad it is about 17lbs heavier 😐

Nice review with the weights of both systems. Im subscribed to your channel, very informative! My 8 year old son likes your vids too. No idea why... lol nah he is a gearhead too and i would love to get him into carting!
Hes playing forza as i type this haha

Thanks for watching, very cool :)

Maybe your son will relate more when my son (10yr old) starts showing up in the videos. He is a bit more camera shy than my daughter who thinks I should be doing videos with her everyday :lol:

Got them both in karts already, hopefully get the video up soon of their junior autocross orientation and first time driving!

Hey I just saw your video randomly browsing on YouTube, glad to see your on the forums as well. I was wondering if you got a lot of drone with this system? I currently have a berk muffler delete and the drone on that became unbearable.

Idk if you only want Single Tip exhausts, but you can look into the Tanabe Medalion exhaust its an awesome exhaust good deep tone and absolutely no drone.

No drone really, it is just loud, but sounds good. I think in my burnout video I have some good street driving sounds of the exhaust.

I am seriously loving this Tanabe Concept G single exit catback paired up with my Motiv FP. It's super loud and aggressive with plenty of pops/gurgles/backfires.

It seems to give a nice pop between 1st and 2nd gear around 60% of the time, and from 2nd to 3rd around 10-20% of the time. There also seems to be a few areas of the RPM range that will reliably produce a pop if you shift at them, but it's kinda hard to reliably hit them.

Rev matched downshifts sound loud and crazy in the car, I can only imagine how they sound from behind! Also, if you're coasting and letting the revs fall from 4k-2500k while just barley/lightly "feathering" the throttle, you get treated to a repeating symphony of machine gun like muffled pops and gurgles as the revs fall. It's really easy to do and it sounds awesome, especially if the exhaust is really hot. I need to figure out a way to record this from the outside somehow.

It's basically a straight pipe/muffler delete disguised as a Japanese N1 looking canister. There's no perforations inside the "muffler" section's piping, just a smaller diameter pipe that the exhaust gets forced through. So I guess the smaller piping in the rear section could be considered a type of muffler, but really there seems to be very little to no muffling going on.

I also love the look of the angled exit and the fact that it's a single exit. I'm gladly leaving the other cutout wide open, I don't care at all that it doesn't look symmetric or whatever. Completely satisfied with the look and sound of this race exhaust!

Good stuff! I really miss having mine :( If it passed sound at race events I would still use it...I'm still searching for a better option than my current Blitz Nur-Spec VSR system. I like it, but it is really heavy :(

Reminds me of my mr2 turbo with the nur spec single exit exhaust. It never looked right regardless of how nice it is.

@justinco
so do you think this is a good exhaust for SSC? (given the 18 lb minimum weight rule and muffler requirement)

I haven't seen the rule exactly yet...but if that is it, then yes I think the Tanabe Concept G would be a great option. Only 19lbs and would be plenty quiet since you need to retain the stock header and front pipe cat's.

Current iteration calls for no track pipes, must exit in one or both original locations and the midpipe plus muffler must weight 18 lbs.

Did you have the Tanabe on your car for a while (or is it still on the car)? Long term review holds up?

Sounds like it should work then. I had it on the car for a few months, so can't really speak to long term. Although a friend of mine locally has had it on his car for a at least a year and going good as far as I know.

For the cost/weight, I think this would be one of my top choices if I was I in SSC or the street class.