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I was looking online and came across this car. I pray that this person was ok. Wanted to know if anyone knows the owner? I would like to get some information about the car. Is this a Wald International rear diffuser? What kind of aftermarket exhaust is this? Does it have headers? Please if anyone knows anything about this car or info about the previous owner hit me up....THANKS....
That car was so hot!!!!! This helps out tremendously. Thanks for your help. Maybe I can narrow down what exhaust he used on previous threads.
Check post #45 in that thread. He had the ISS Forged DES.
DES stands for Dual Exhaust System. ISS Forged also used the make the QES (Quad Exhaust System). The tips looked the same but it was 4 separate mufflers instead of the 2 mufflers, with 2 tips each, that the DES had.
Not to mention, the QES was REALLLLLY loud.
A little color on the exhaust and why it's almost impossible to find these days:
ISS Forged was based out of Miami and used to make wheels as well. He sold his operation to a company in Texas, mainly for the wheel business. I never kept up with what happened, but from what I remember, the new owner didn't make the exhaust system anymore and later tried to get back into it? Something like that.
Sidenote: Because of the tips feeding through the openings in the rear bumper, getting an aftermarket exhaust system to align itself perfect without hitting the bumper was extremely difficult. A tiny misalignment by even 1 degree towards the front of the car would cause unbearable vibration while driving from the exhaust rattling against the bumper. Which is why very few companies (I think only ISS and Greddy?) were able to produce exhaust systems with full tips to replace the fake factory tips.
The reason ISS was able to do it was because the owner of the company owned an IS F, had a big factory where he produced his wheels, and was able through trial-and-error to figure out how to make it work. And he had a GENIUS engineer who made every single exhaust by hand.
Once he sold his company, I frankly think nobody else was able to reproduce what his engineer used to do.
Lots of the parts were on eBay quite a while ago, they had no idea the parts were aftermarket but they wanted a lot of money for everything I tried buying a few things without tipping them off they were aftermarket but they were pretty much a pain to deal with. Local would be the best way to deal with them but like I said it's been a long time they have had it, so it's likely pretty picked over
11-17-15, 07:45 PM
Looking for the owner of this totaled IS F
