During the 2nd Annual Northern California Lexus Club meet, we held the first ever exhaust competition. The idea behind the contest was to give owners with modified exhaust systems an opportunity to show off their exhaust sound and have a friendly competition.

There are two (2) categories, 6 cylinder and 8 cylinder. Contestants from each category will have 10 seconds to rev their motors in front of the crowd in any manner they wish that would be impressive. Spectators would vote on their favorite set up according to their personal preference.

Each car listed the type of Intake and Exhaust system being used, as well as any special mods that were done, such as cross pipes, no CATs or resonators. The intakes, surprisingly made a difference in the sound of a couple of systems that used the same exhaust set up.

The crowd really enjoyed the competition as there is seldom an opportunity for people to hear so many types of exhausts in the same place at the same time. I know of several people who were able to decide on the exhaust system for their car based on this friendly competition.

In the end, did we have a hands down winner? You be the judge. The votes were split over several cars and the margin of the winners was maybe 6 to 8 votes over the next car, with around 50-60 people voting.

Several factors weigh into the winning combination.

1. People have personal their preferences.
2. The popular vote heavily favored the loudest , nastiest sounding system, but in the 6 cyl class, the loudest car got second place.
3. Style is another consideration, as some people really wowed the crowd with the way they revved their motors.

In the end, it was interesting to note that the winners in both classes were the last competitors to line up.

We have the 8 cylinder class available for download on the newly created NorCal Website: www.LexusGoneWild.com . Please note that the file is big, so we decided to lower the resolution in order for 56K users to be able to watch it. I have viewed the competition in High Res on DVD and the full screen video and audio are much better. It is a lot easier to hear the differences between the systems when played on DVD through a good audio system, using a sub. For those interested, a DVD will be available in a few weeks. It will include both competitions, the meet video, plus a bunch of bonus material. I will post again when the DVD will be released.

So here is the link to the 8 cyl. competition.

http://www.lexusgonewild.com/norCal_...xhaustComp.htm

Congrats go out to Dnguyen who won and picked out his prize to be an XM Radio receiver by Delphi..

Thanks to Rominl for setting up the competition rules & guidelines, R.Maestas for filming the competition and Big Props go out to Jawnthen who did a great job editing the video and adding special effects.

 

This will be a valuable vid for the GS4 guys shopping for an exhaust system

 

Too big for my dialup...what's the actual movie link (http:xxxxxxxxxx.mov) so I can use my download manager to get it.......?? Thanks!!

 

Nicely done.

 

that is IT my resonators are gone!!! THAT VIDEO ROCKS!!!
some great cars on that one! i thought the apexi one did pretty well though...

 

Exceptional job guys, this is great stuff!

Making this a sticky in the main forum for a while, then I'll move both video links and sticky them in the appropriate sub forum.

 

surprised no one showed up with borlas. those seem to be pretty popular here on CL. someone there got the JP tailights? or do my eyes fail me?

 

That's GSIntensive's w/the JP tails. Soon to be two more NorCal cars with them.


Thanks go to Jawnthen, who barely got it completed with all his school obligations. We're gonna have fun trying to release the meet vid soon enough.


The 6 cyl competition was lower res and we told everyone we did it to accomodate dial up users. People wanted higher res, so the 8 cyl was bumped up a bit, and it will take longer to download, especially with dial up. It takes time for Jawnthen to tweek the resolution for speed with clarity and then render the file again, so sorry this is all we have available fo now.

For those interested, the DVD will offer higher res audio & video plus be full screen. To be released in hopefully a couple more weeks.

 

are all of these exhausts legal in cal?

 

I certainly hope so... I go in for smog tomorrow.

 

cool video. I actually liked the third car with the Greddy, almost sounded like he was on a dyno. Too bad there weren't any cars with the Borla (as mentioned above). I have the TOM's exhaust and to be honest, it sounds different from the other exhausts on the video. You can ad this to your database of V-8. If you can tell me how to upload the sound, I will put it up for you guys.

thanks

ricky

 

This is exactly what I was waiting for, thanks for the video. It just makes me want to go out and buy an exhaust system right now. I feel kinda lefted behind with my somewhat stock GS. But then again, just more decisions decisions....

 

Nice vid guys.....

 

Good idea, I'll be glad to do the same if we can reproduce similar conditions. It'd be great to capture all the others that weren't represented at the meet ( I don't recall any L-tuned exhaust either).

It'd also be great to capture a closeup picture of each exhaust directly from the rear and a little off angle too so folks can match up 'the look' and 'the sound'.