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EXHAUST OPINIONS...? HKS, Magnaflow or Greddy

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Old 09-13-12, 10:24 PM
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Was looking for exhaust opinions for a 2004 is300. I have narrowed it down to HKS, Greddy and Magnaflow. What do you think?
Old 09-14-12, 06:10 AM
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I used to have the Hks dragger II and thought it had a nice deep tone to it.
Once I added the mazzuri headers the exhaust sounded real mean!
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Yeah i have been listening to different exhaust sounds on youtube and i was leaning towards the HKS setup myself. Thanks @mikenice.
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i got the HKS Hi-power exhaust with the mazzuri v2 headers/ypipe me and my friends are blowned away by how it sounds.
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hks carbon ti or a custom exhaust with a magnaflow muffer
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NAY say I!!! only way to go for our clean classy luxury sport ride is the Apexi WS2 or the Greddy SP2.

both are clean, stock looking - no po po attention, nice sound and good gains.
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Originally Posted by isusu8o8
i got the HKS Hi-power exhaust with the mazzuri v2 headers/ypipe me and my friends are blowned away by how it sounds.
Yeah def. I do miss my na exhaust setup. sounded nice!!
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I have done many diffrent exhausts on diffrent cars and honestly it depends what u plan to do in the future. If u plan on having a big mean turbo setup I wouldent pick any of them unless u can get the magnaflow in a 3 inch. But if your just doing regular bolt ons and a header I would go with the apexi wsp2 or the greddy sp2 as mentioned above by mylittleis. Exhaust can get expensive so you only want to do it once.
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@kasper300

This is my daily driver and i do quite a bit of driving for work so i was just looking for a good replacement of the stock muffler that would sound good with my k&N cold air kit.
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Well in that case I would definately go with the apexi or greddy setup I mentioned above. They both give off great exhaust notes/tones and are 2 db within legal noise/db limits. They both also have a stock look to them to keep away unwanted attention. But not to stear you completely away from magnaflow I have had there system on a turbo integra I used to have and it sounded really nice but it would be a little deeper and raspy sound (it would be better suited for a small turbo/ decent amount of bolt ons)

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