Kozy

I am going to have some exhaust work done on my car, eliminating rear muffler and possibly also the pair of resonators depending on the loudness that results, and then running new 2.25" pipe out to the rear bumper. I found an image online of exactly what I want my exhaust exit to look like (see attached).

Does anyone know whose car this is and/or what tips these are?

timmy0tool

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vincent's car
https://www.clublexus.com/forums/bui...f21-build.html

he has a full exhaust setup, read in his thread.

Kozy

Gracias! I went through the thread and saw that the tips were separate from the rest of the exhaust. PM'ed him to get details on the tips.

https://www.clublexus.com/forums/bui...1-build-5.html

billydpowe

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Timmy to the rescue.

Kozy

Preliminary mock-up of the setup I'm going with. Got some Vibrant 3.5" dual stainless tips and I must say they look good. Can't wait to get these welded up in a few days!!! I'm battling internally with the idea of cutting more out of the bumper to move the tips up further though.

Kozy

VOILA! Next thing on the list is treatment for the 4x4 syndrome my car is battling with right now.

Stroock639

lol you talkin bout that pesky 90s wheel gap? mine has it too, the doctor said some H&R springs with a drop of wheel spacers should do the trick

Kozy

Well hopefully your doctor recommended new struts to go with those H&R's otherwise you'll end up having even more problems to deal with.

Stroock639

lol all my struts are relatively new (<20,000 miles on all) and the H&Rs are only 1" lower which can't make the struts wear THAT much quicker... unless i'm very wrong... in terms of strut life i feel like they can't be as bad as the tanabes

i feel like you were just talking about the fat tires

Kozy

I'm still on OEM struts, definitely not original but I don't know how old they actually are. I need more than 1" so I would definitely need to replace the struts with aftermarket at the same time.

The fat tires will need to go eventually too. Just don't have the moolah to tackle it all right now. Why did I go and get married, buy a house, and have kids???

b17what

I just installed two straight through mufflers on my car yesterday. WAY to quite for my liking.

Have a video of yours? Really like that look.

Kozy

Did you install them in place of the OEM mufflers? I assume you still have all 3 resonators on there. I'd either replace the muffs you just installed with straight pipe and leave the resonators on or leave the straight-thru muffs on and start removing resonators.

I don't have a video yet but am hoping to put one together soon. I'll post it back here when I create it.

b17what

Yeah just replaced stock mufflers. I think I'm going to wait till I can do the complete exhaust.

Kozy

From what I've read, doing a full exhaust system on these cars really doesn't do anything for you unless you have aspirations of increasing horsepower. I personally do not so swapping out the stock mufflers to get some noise was the best route for me.