I decided to take out my left fog light housing to try and fix my broken headlamp mount and discovered that the area for the fog light isn't covered and collects dirt like crazy!

I used some WD-40 to clean all the contacts and the rubber seal around the light.

Eventually this could lead to the foglights not working because of corrosion and dirt build up. Here are some pics..

ALSO at the bottom are some pics of the exhaust, which I think I got ripped off on, anyone know the stock piping diameter? I think I got charged the same price just to replace the stock piping with the same diameter piping.

 

Screws that need to be removed-

 

First wide angle shot..

 

Upclose - DIRTY! ( Sorry camera sucks at close shots.)

 

another dirt shot

 

Exhaust picture..

I think the piping after the centor resonator (where the 2 resonators used to be) was replaced with the stock diameter piping and I paid for a bigger diameter!

There is 3" piping in the middle (I thinK)

 

bump - Why? Becuase I meant to put HOW TO: in the subject line..

 

How much did you pay for that exhaust pipe install?
Thant is sweet and I might need to do one later on.

 

Does your car sound less quiet without the 2 resonators?

 

The exhaust setup cost me less than $175. I forgot as I did it peice by piece as I wanted to see how loud it got progressively. My suggestion on that is to take it to a well known shop because the place that did mine was oddly cheesy and used cheap piping and welding techniques.

It's noticeably louder, but it's not that noisy from inside at all. It has a peak growl sound between 1K and 2,500K RPM. To me it sounds like a first gen stock SC400.

There are countless arguments on the backpressure thing so I have no idea if changing the exhaust gained any power. The latest I've heard somewhere on here in another thread is that 'flow velocity' is more important than backpressure. So I guess straight piping instead of curved piping yields better performance.(?)

Lexozz - Actually all three resonators are removed,the center one after the cats, and the two under the passenger seats. Only thing left is the stock exhaust barrels at the end and the stock cats which I'm thinking of replacing with high flow ones.