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Originally Posted by sierra
I wonder why the change in the routing?
It's got to be heavier. Looks good though.
I take it that's the 3"? Are the mufflers offset?
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We can weigh one vs. the other but they shouldn't be that big of a difference in weight. Change in routing was simply a manufacturability issue and we also found that we could make more power with a 3" midpipe and so we have two different designs that have options for 3" center sections, one in the configuration shown above with a standard 3" single midpipe, the other is a wild 3" to full dual 2" setup with quad mufflers. It's substantially quiet, but picked up 6ft lb in the midrange over the full header-back layout that we had on our car. With so many people talking turbo, we wanted to give a few options for those individuals who would need higher flow. Lo and behold, it picks up more midrange on an N/A car as well, just a bit louder - so we laid out an option for adding two resonators to the system to pull that sound level down and landed on a design that is quieter than the standard header+OP/DP+Street Axleback. Second reason for laying out that system is that it packs up in a box that we can ship to Australia via USPS without incurring astronomical shipping charges.
I'll post a few photos of that full dual layout here in a few - gotta pull them off of an SD card that is hiding somewhere in my office.
Also, the layout shown above has more real estate for longer mufflers than our original design.
Jason