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Hello, I just joined this forum, and feeling a bit guilty, since I have been reading posts and checking vendors sites since last Dec. when I bought my Mini, it's an '03 Indigo Blue, sorry no pics. The only mods I have done since the purchace was a Short Throw shift kit, and a set of Toyo tires and new wheels. I had been wanting to do more to gain more power, especially at the bottom end. I had read where other members were putting on cat-back systems and gaining noticable power increases, but to be honest I thought these cat-backs weren't addressing the real problem, i.e. the bottleneck at the cat and pre-cat. My thought was to eliminate the pre-cat which is metalic and replace the main cat, ceramic, with a free flow OBD 2 certified cat, increase piping to 2.5 then split into two free flow mufflers. I went to an exhaust shop that I used before, and was very pleased with the work, the man is an artist, to say the least. he agreed with me and came up with the finished product, which has done wonders for my mini. I have no documentation i.e. dyno, but I can see on the tach how much faster the engine rpms increase (supercharger spools up) and of course I can feel the added hp. and tq. I am attaching pics. I took of the exhaust along with the old cat section, which was very restrictive. I just wanted to share this with other members, since they have shared info. with me.
Thank you, for your compliments, I appreciate it. My goal was to get a full system for basically the price of a cat-back. I was interested in performance, rather than sound, hence the longer resonater, it still sounds good. I'm attaching more pictures, that I could'nt fit in the first post.
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