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Originally posted by Kaisake
If you want a muffler that sounds a bit louder than stock, but not by much -go with Supersprint. |
Agreed...the supersprint is for the most part a stock sound, with a little deeper tone. I considered getting this exhaust, for hte sole purpose of the adjustablilty of it (sort of)...if the sound is too mellow for you, you can cut out a resonator (or both)... and get a sound more and more aggressive. I however have a different favorite exhaust after shopping around...I'm in love with the Rogue Engineering Exhaust...I'll be placing my order in teh next week or two...it is definitely louder than stock, however it isn't obnoxious which is exactly what i want. My advice for you is to shop around, most manufacturers have sound clips and/or videos on their websites so listen to a variety and then make a decision. I reccomend the Supersprint, Rogue, Active Autowerke, and UUC exhausts for price and quality, I have heard nothing but good things about the Dinan, Racing Dynamics, Hamann, and AC Schnitzer, but in my opinion those are too expensive. As for price, I don't know many prices exactly but I can say that the exhaust i mentioned above (the ones i reccommended) will be at or around 600 dollars so you should be set. For the computer setup, I still wouldn't reccomend it. I understand what you want now, you want to be able to plug it in and remap the ECU...Honestly at 15 there is no way you will have anywhere near the knowledge neccesary to program the fuel maps etc correctly, it just takes years of experience and experimentation...plus as I said before it's not neccesary on a daily driver, especially one that is not a Forced Induction (turbo/sc) setup. It's different for Hondas Toyota's etc. I also follow the Import scene very closely and I know there are kits like this out there for civics integras, supras, etc, but they offer programs with them and the maps are preset in them and you just chose, with a comparable BMW setup you will have to do ALL the programming, and I know I would never do that on my dad's car...the gains aren't worth the risk of bodily harm (my old man still scares the shit out me when he's mad even though he's 50). The BMW engineering is alot more complex than the Japanese (hence the price) and it's best not to mess with that, maybe one day a kit similar to those on the Imports will come along in the bmw community, but until then...as Kaisake said the shark injector is a great way to do this without the complexity of having to remap things yourself, Dinan also does a good job with software (although it's kind of expensive at 399 per upgrade and there are several different upgrades...a trend with dinan) I would reccommend the transmission software it does wonders for the steptronic (the most, and possibly only, hated part on the E46) they also have a stage one software download that raises the rev limit removes the speed governor and gives a little HP boost. So i would save your money and time and go with a premade software download.